American Military Interventions

 

(excluding declared wars, National Guard mobilizations, & CIA covert operations)

 

1798-1800       Dominican Republic      1801-1805       Tripoli 

 

1806    Mexico 1806-1810      Gulf of Mexico  1810   West Florida   

 

1812    Amelia Island, Florida  1813     West Florida   

 

1813-1814       Marquesas Islands        1814    Spanish Florida                        

 

1814-25           Caribbean        1815    Algiers    1815  Tripoli                                                 

 

1816    Spanish Florida  1816-1818     Spanish Florida  1817   Amelia Island                                       

 

1818    Oregon   1820-26         Africa   1822   Cuba  1823      Cuba                                                   

 

1823    Cuba    1824    Puerto Rico      1825    Cuba    1827    Greece                                                

 

1831-32           Falkland Islands  1832  Sumatra  1833  Argentina                                             

 

1835-36           Peru     1836    Mexico  1838-39         Sumatra 

 

1840    Fiji Islands  1841          Drummond Island   1841          Samoa                                                 

 

1843    Mexico  1843   Africa   1844    Mexico  1846-48  Mexico

 

1849    Smyrna  1851   Turkey   1851  Joahanna Island  

 

1852-53           Argentina  1853            Nicaragua   1853-54    Japan                                                  

 

1853-54           Ryukyu & Bonin Islands  1854 China

 

1854 Nicaragua  1855 China    1855    Fiji Islands                                           

 

1855    Uruguay  1856 Panama  1856  China  1857     Nicaragua                                            

 

1858    Uruguay  1858 Fiji Islands  1858-59    Turkey   1858  Paraguay                                             

 

1858    Mexico  1858   China  1860     Angola, Portuguese W. Africa  

 

1860    Columbia, Bay of Panama  1863           Japan   1864    Japan                                                  

 

1864    Japan   1865    Panama  1866  Mexico  1866   China                                                  

 

1867    Formosa  1868 Japan   1868    Uruguay  1868 Columbia                                             

 

1870    Mexico  1870   Hawaiian Islands  1871  Korea                                                

 

1873    Colombia (Bay of Panama)  1873         Mexico                                    

 

1874    Hawaiian Islands  1876  Mexico  1882  Egypt                                                 

 

1885    Panama  1888  Korea  1888-89  Samoa  1888            Haiti                                                    

 

1889    Hawaiian Islands  1890  Argentina                                           

 

1890    South Dakota (Wounded Knee)  1891  Haiti                                                   

 

1891    Bering Sea  1891  Chile  1892  Idaho

 

1893        Hawaiian Islands  1894  Brazil  1894  Nicaragua                                              

 

1894    Chicago  1894-95  Korea  1894-95     China                                                  

 

1895    Colombia  1896  Nicaragua  1898  Minnesota

 

1898    Nicaragua  1898-99     China  1899     Nicaragua  1899  Samoa                                                         

 

1899-1901       Philippine Islands  1900  China                                                

 

1901    Colombia (State of Panama)  1901       Oklahoma 

 

1902  Columbia  1903  Honduras, Dominican Republic and Syria                                                        

 

1903-14           Panama  1904  Dominican Republic  1904-5      Korea                                                           

 

1904-05                     Korea  1906-09  Cuba              1907  Honduras  1910  Nicaragua                                         

 

1911        Honduras  and China 

 

1912    Honduras, Panama, Cuba, China and Turkey                                       

 

1912-25  Nicaragua  1912-42    China  1913   Mexico                        

 

1914    Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Colorado  1914-17      Mexico                                    

 

1915-34           Haiti  1916-24  Dominican Republic  1917-33  Cuba                                                   

 

1918-19  Mexico  1918-20   Soviet Russia  1919        Honduras                                            

 

1920-22  Russia  1920  China    1920  Guatemala                                           

 

1920-21  West Virginia  1921  Panama and Costa Rica                                   

 

1921    Oklahoma  1922  Turkey  1924  Honduras                                          

 

1926-33 Nicaragua  1926  China  1927  China 

 

1932    Washington, DC  1933  Cuba                                                  

 

1940    Newfoundland, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Bahamas, Jamaica,

 

1940  Antigua, Trinidad & British Guiana         

 

1941    Greenland  1941 Dutch Guiana  1941   Iceland 

 

1941  Germany 1943  Detroit

 

1945-53  China , Philippines, and Korea  1946  Italy  1947   Palestine 

 

1948    Berlin  1950-55  Taiwan  1953  Iran  1956  Egypt  1958  Lebanon

 

1959-60 Caribbean  1962  Cuba & Thailand  1962-75  Laos

 

1964    Congo  1964-73  Vietnam  1965  Dominican Republic  1968  United States

 

1969-70  Cambodia  1973       South Dakota  1974 Cyprus 1976 Lebanon

 

1983-89    Honduras  1983  Chad  1984  Grenada  1985  Italy

 

1985  Libya 1986  Bolivia  1987-88  Persian Gulf  1989    Lybia

 

1989   Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Panama 1990  Saudia Arabia

 

1990  Kuwait & Iraq  1991-present     Iraq  1991  Kuwait

 

  1992-94  Somalia  1993  Bosnia-Hercegovina

 

1998  Afghanistan  1999   Yugoslavia  2001  Afghanistan

 

2002?  2003?  2004?  2005? 

 

Sources:  Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress,

 

www.fas.org/man/crs/crs_931007.htm;

 

William Blum, Z Magazine,

 

www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html)

 

Zolton Grossman, www.neravt.com/left/invade.htm