A U.S. led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003 and removed Saddam Hussein from power.
The United States went to war in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Gulf War began after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990.
The United States supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam, with large numbers of combat troops arriving in…
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.
The United States entered World War II after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The United States entered World War I in April 1917, joining Britain and France against Germany and its…
After the United States took control of the Philippines from Spain, Filipino forces who wanted independence fought American…
The Spanish American War was a short conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898.
The American Indian Wars were a long series of conflicts between Native nations and colonists and later the…
The Civil War was fought between the Union and the Confederate states over slavery and the survival of…
The war between the United States and Mexico followed the U.S. annexation of Texas and a dispute over…
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain over trade restrictions and the…
The Revolutionary War won independence for the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
Haym Salomon was a Polish born Jewish immigrant and financial broker in New York and Philadelphia.
Mercy Otis Warren was a Massachusetts writer, poet and playwright who used her pen to support the patriot…
James Armistead was an enslaved man in Virginia who volunteered to spy for the American cause under the…
Crispus Attucks was a man of African and Native American descent who was killed in the Boston Massacre…
The Marquis de Lafayette was a young French aristocrat who joined the American cause and became a major…
Alexander Hamilton served as an aide to George Washington and led an attack at the Battle of Yorktown.
Abigail Adams ran the family farm and household while her husband John served the Revolution.
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in January 1776, a pamphlet that argued plainly for independence from Britain.
John Hancock was a wealthy Boston merchant who served as president of the Second Continental Congress.
Nathan Hale was a young Connecticut schoolteacher who volunteered to gather intelligence behind British lines in 1776.