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Table of contents 1 US interventions
1.1 WORLD WAR II 1941-45
1.2 GREECE 1947-49
1.3 PHILIPPINES 1948-54
1.4 PUERTO RICO 1950
1.5 KOREAN WAR 1950-53
1.6 IRAN 1953
1.7 GUATEMALA 1954
1.8 LEBANON 1958
1.9 VIETNAM WAR 1960-75
1.10 CUBA 1961
1.11 LAOS 1962
1.12 PANAMA 1964
1.13 INDONESIA 1965
1.14 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66
1.15 GUATEMALA 1966-67
1.16 CAMBODIA 1969-75
1.17 OMAN 1970
1.18 LAOS 1971-73
1.19 CHILE 1973
1.20 ANGOLA 1976-92
1.21 EL SALVADOR 1981-92
1.22 NICARAGUA 1981-90
1.23 LEBANON 1982-84
1.24 HONDURAS 1983-89
1.25 GRENADA 1983-84
1.26 LIBYA 1986
1.27 BOLIVIA 1986
1.28 IRAN 1987-88
1.29 U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989
1.30 PHILIPPINES 1989
1.31 PANAMA 1989-90
1.32 GULF WAR 1990
1.33 SOMALIA 1992-94
1.34 YUGOSLAVIA 1992-94
1.35 BOSNIA 1993-95
1.36 CROATIA 1995
1.37 SUDAN 1998
1.38 AFGHANISTAN 1998
1.39 YUGOSLAVIA 1999
1.40 COLOMBIA 2000
1.41 MACEDONIA 2001
1.42 AFGHANISTAN 2001
1.43 IRAQ 2003
By means of repetitive coups the US-backed army has ousted the democratically elected parties several times. The USA and other countries support dictator regimes, such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, discriminatory governments in Israel or Egypt and puppet colonist regimes in Afganistan and Iraq, all the while claiming to be fighting a so-called “global war on terror”.
WORLD WAR II 1941-45
Fought Axis forces for three years; first nuclear attacks, against Japan.
Supports and directs extreme right in civil war.
CIA directs war against leftist Huk Rebellion.
PUERTO RICO 1950
Nationalist insurrection challenges American occupation; US command operation puts down rebellion.
KOREAN WAR 1950-53
Joins South Korea and other allies to fight China and North Korea.
CIA directs overthrow of elected left-leaning government, installs Shah.
CIA directs exile invasion and overthrow of leftist government; military junta installed.
CIA Covert Action in Guatemala: A long term analysis (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/9/211325/2048) (mirror (http://www.ashapiro.net/story/2002/11/29/192912/64))
US occupation ends under UN Observer Group.
VIETNAM WAR 1960-75
Fought South Vietnam rebels and North Vietnam forces; 1-2 million killed.
CIA-directed “Bay of Pigs” invasion.
Green Berets active in training, military buildup, support of rightist forces during guerrilla war.
Control of Panama Canal Zone challenged; rioting against US forces.
Army coup assisted to an unknown degree by CIA; left-leaning elected government toppled; between 250,000 to 1,000,000 lives lost.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66
Troops invade during election as pre-emptive action against leftist rebellion or communist government.
Command operation; Green Berets aid in combat against leftist rebels.
War against leftist forces; intense bombing; up to 2 million killed.
US directs Iranian invasion in support of Omani government against Marxist “Dhufar rebellion.”
US directs South Vietnamese invasion.
CIA-backed coup ousts elected leftist president; rightist dictator installed.
CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
EL SALVADOR 1981-92
Advisors aid government forces against leftist rebels.
US directs guerrilla exile invasion (“Contra war”) against revolutionary government; US forces plant mines.
Marines help police negotiated evacuation of Palestine Liberation Organization; US forces combat Muslim and Syrian fighters in support of Christian government.
Military bases established for US-backed “Contra war” with Nicaragua.
US troops topple pro-Cuban government.
Air strikes against nationalist government with terrorist links.
Operation Blast Furnace; US troops and Bolivian police face peasant resistance in cocaine-producing regions.
Intervention on side of Iraq in war against Iran.
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989
Troops restore order after civil unrest spurred by Hurricane Hugo.
Armed US aircraft support constitutional government against failed coup.
Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 US soldiers; more than 2,000 people killed.
GULF WAR 1990
Operation Desert Storm drives Iraq out of Kuwait; 200,000+ killed. No-fly zone ongoing; periodic bombing. Use of a weapon that creates widespread destruction by US forces – depleted uranium released into atmospehere.
US-led United Nations occupation during civil war.
US troops in NATO operation to enforce sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro.
Operation Deny Flight patrols civil war no-fly zone; air combat, Serbs bombed.
American and NATO forces attack Bosnian Serb airfields prior to Croatian offensive.
Pharmaceutical factory bombed; retaliation for terrorist attacks on US embassies in Africa.
Bombing of Islamic fundamentalist military camps; retaliation for terrorist attacks on US embassies in Africa.
US aircraft play the key role in heavy NATO air strikes against Serbian forces in Kosovo.
Special Forces anti-rebel battalions, supply combat aircraft.
US forces in NATO’s Operation Essential Harvest partially disarm Albanian rebels.
In retaliation for terrorist attacks in US, forces attempt ouster of Afghanistan’s Taliban government, attack bases linked to Islamic militant Osama bin Laden.
US army attacks Iraq, disarming the anti-American dictatorship controlled by Saddam Hussain and the Baath party. See this Iraq Timeline (http://www.iraqtimeline.com) for details regarding the events surrounding the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
- List of interventions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List-of-U.S.-foreign-interventions-since-1945/) – Wikipedia
- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/KillingHope-page.html (warning: hard to read italics and grotesque blue background — try a text browser like Links, Lynx)
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