American Foreign Intervention

American Foreign Intervention Timeline

1893 Jan 17 Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Until the 1890s the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was an independent sovereign state, recognized by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and Germany. Though there were threats to Ha...
1899 Jun 2
to 1913 Jun 15
 Philippine-American War
The Philippine–American War, sometimes known as the Philippine War of Independence (1899–1902) was an armed military conflict between the Philippines and the United States, which arose fr...
1903 Nov 3 Separation of Panama from Colombia
The Separation of Panama from Colombia was formalized on 3 November 1903 with the establishment of the Republic of Panama from the Republic of Colombia's Department of Panama. On Novem...
1912
to 1933
U.S. Occupation of Nicaragua
The United States occupied Nicaragua from 1912-1933 and intervened in the country several times before that. The US military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to prevent the constr...
1915 Jul
to 1934 Aug
United States Occupation of Haiti
In an effort to limit German influence, in 1910-11 the State Department backed a consortium of American investors, assembled by the National City Bank of New York, in acquiring control of...
1916
to 1924
1916 United States Occupation of the Dominican Republic
The United States occupied the Dominican Republic from 1916-1924. In May 1917, Rear Admiral William B. Caperton forced the Republic's Secretary of War Desiderio Arias, who had seized p...
1953 Aug 19 1953 coup d'etat in Iran
The 1953 Iranian coup d’état deposed the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq. The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) overthrew t...
1958 Jul 1958 Lebanon Crisis
The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a Lebanese political crisis caused by political and religious tensions in the country. It included a U.S. military intervention, leading to the easing of tensi...
1983 Oct 25 Operation Urgent Fury
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation of just over 100,000 population located 100 miles (160 km) nor...
1986 Apr 15 Operation El Dorado Canyon
The United States bombing of Libya (code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon) comprised the joint United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps air-strikes against Libya on April 15, 1986.
1988 Operation Golden Pheasant
Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the (then socialist) Nicaraguans.
1989 Dec Operation Just Cause
The United States invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989, during the George H.W. Bush administration, and ten...
1994 Sep 19
to 1995 Mar 31
 Operation Uphold Democracy
Operation Uphold Democracy (September 19, 1994 – March 31, 1995) was a response to the overthrow and expulsion of the duly elected government of Haiti by a military coup. The operation...
1997 Mar Operation Silver Wake
Operation Silver Wake was a noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) led by the United States to evacuate American citizens, noncombatants and designated third country nationals from Alban...
1998 Dec 16
to 1998 Dec 19
 Operation Desert Fox
The December 1998 bombing of Iraq (code-named Operation Desert Fox) was a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets from December 16–19, 1998 by the United States and United Kingdo...