French and Indian War (1754-1763) - Fought between the British French as a result of a dispute over land in the Ohio Valley., American Revolutionary War - The war in which American colonists fought for independence from Great Britain., War of 1812 - was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire.The Americans declared for a number of reasons including impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy., Monroe Doctrine - US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention., Mexican American War - (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory., Cause of Mexican American War - Manifest Destiny and annexation of Texas led to border dispute between Mexico and United States. Fighting broke out in disputed territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, Effect of the Mexican American War - Mexican Cession, which resulted in increased sectionalism and Compromise of 1850., Civil War  - deadliest war in American history; conflict between north (union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union, Spanish American War - Conflict between the U.S. and Spain that began the rise of the U.S. as a world power. The U.S. gained possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as a result., Philippine American War - armed conflict between the Philippines and the United States from 1899-1902. It was a continuation of the Philippine struggle for independence. The Philippines declared war on the US and it became a savage conflict with guerilla warfare., WWI - A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy, and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire., US Entry into WW1 - Sinking of Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany; Zimmerman Telegram, Effect of WW1 - 14 Points, League of Nations, Red Scare, return to isolationism., WW2 - 1939-1945, Hitler, invading Poland, was the beginning of the war. U.S. was neutral but became involved when Japan, bombed Pearl Harbor. We then dropped the atomic bombs, Little Boy, & Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, using the Enola Gay B-29 bomber., US entry int WW2 - Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Cold War - A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years., Effects of WWII on the world - Nuclear bombs, Cold War, Homefront effects of WW2 - Japanese Internment, Manhattan Project,

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