List of wars involving the United States

 

• Canadian Auxiliaries

Spanish Empire

Iroquois

• Oneida
• Tuscarora

Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw

 Dutch Republic

 Mysore

 Great Britain

Iroquois

• Onondaga
• Mohawk
• Cayuga
• Seneca

Cherokee

• Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America

• John Hancock
• Henry Laurens
• John Jay
• Samuel Huntington
• Thomas McKean
• John Hanson
• Elias Boudinot
• Thomas Mifflin
• Richard Henry Lee
• John Hancock
• Nathaniel Gorham
• Arthur St. Clair
• Cyrus Griffin

• John Hancock
• Henry Laurens
• John Jay
• Samuel Huntington
• Thomas McKean
• John Hanson
• Elias Boudinot
• Thomas Mifflin
• Richard Henry Lee
• John Hancock
• Nathaniel Gorham
• Arthur St. Clair
• Cyrus Griffin

Presidents of the United States:

• George Washington

• British North America

• Treaty of Greenville (1795)
• American occupation of the Northwest Territory

 

Co-belligerent:
 Great Britain

• Guadeloupe

• Peaceful cessation of Franco-American alliance
• End of French privateer attacks on American shipping
• American neutrality and renunciation of claims by France

 

• British North America
• The Canadas

Tecumseh's Confederacy

• Treaty of Ghent
• Military stalemate; both sides' invasion attempts repulsed
• Status quo ante bellum
• Defeat of Tecumseh's Confederacy
• Burning of Washington including the White House and the Capitol

• Treaty of Fort Jackson

Spanish Florida

• Spain cedes Spanish Florida to the United States in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819
• The United States forcibly relocates Seminole in northern Florida to a reservation in the center of the peninsula in the Treaty of Moultrie Creek of 1823

 

Sioux

• White Peace treaty agreed by US Col Leavenworth^[4]

• Ho-Chunks cede lead mining region to the United States

• End of Native armed resistance to U.S. expansion in the Old Northwest
• Black Hawk Purchase (1832)
• The United States purchases Potawatomi land in the Treaty of Tippecanoe (1832)
• The United States purchases the rest of Potawatomi land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Chicago (1833)

 

 United States

• Out of the Texan soldiers serving from January through March 1836, 78% had arrived from the United States after October 2, 1835.^{[Note 1][5]}

• The Republic of Texas gains its independence.
• Texas is annexed into the United States in 1845.

• Approximately 3,800 Seminoles transported to the Indian Territory
• Approximately 300 remain in Everglades

William Henry Harrison(March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841)

John Tyler (April 4, 1841 –March 4, 1845)

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Mexican Cession
• Mexican recognition of US sovereignty over Texas and California (among other territories)

• Cayuse reduced in numbers and forced to cede most of their lands

Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850)

Millard Fillmore (July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853)

Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)

• Apaches moved to reservations

Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850)

Millard Fillmore (July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853)

Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865)

Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869)

Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877)

Rutherford B. Hayes (March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881)

James A. Garfield (March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881)

Chester A. Arthur (September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885)

Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889)

Benjamin Harrison (March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893)

Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897)

William McKinley (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909)

William Howard Taft (March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913)

Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921)

Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923)

Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929)

• Kansas admitted as a free state on January 29, 1861.

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grand Ronde and Coast Reservations^{[citation needed]}

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grand Ronde and Coast Reservations

• By late 1850s, most Seminoles forced to leave their land; a few hundred remain deep in the Everglades on land unwanted by white settlers

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

• Treaties of Tientsin
• Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island ceded to the United Kingdom as part of British Hong Kong

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

• Resolution through negotiation
• Brigham Young replaced as governor of the territory
• Full amnesty for charges of sedition and treason issued to the citizens of Utah Territory by President James Buchanan on the condition that they accept American Federal authority

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

• Long Walk of the Navajo
• Navajos moved to reservations

James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861)

Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865)

Confederate States

 Mexico

• Dissolution of the Confederate States
• U.S. territorial integrity preserved
• Beginning of the Reconstruction Era
• U.S. Federal government expands further control over land and railroad rights in the Indian Territory.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865)

Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869)

Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877)

• Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington

Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869)

Andrew Johnson

• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
• Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to Native Americans
• Creation of the Great Sioux Reservation (including the Black Hills)

Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877)

(1871)

The captured Sujagi aboard USS Colorado in June 1871

American military victory

American diplomatic failure

• Withdrawal of American forces
• Korea retains isolationist policies
• Eventual signing of the United States–Korea Treaty of 1882

• End to the Texas-Indian Wars

• Cattle returned to Texas

• Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to the United States

William McKinley (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909)

William Howard Taft (March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913)

Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921)

• Allies and Rebels compromise for peace Tripartite Convention
• United States acquires American Samoa
• United Kingdom withdraws claim in exchange for concessions in the Solomon Islands
• Germany acquires German Samoa
• Mata'afa Iosefo becomes paramount chief of Samoa

• Cuba
• Guam
• Philippines
• Puerto Rico

• Treaty of Paris
• Protectorate over Cuba
• Collapse of the Spanish Empire

 

• Military government

1902-1906
 United States

• Civil government

 

• Negros Republic
• Zamboanga Republic

Limited Foreign Support:
 Empire of Japan

• Shishi

1902-1906
Tagalog Republic

• Irrenconcilables

• Occupation of the Philippines
• Establishment of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands
• General Emilio Aguinaldo captured
• Dissolution of the First Philippine Republic

Theodore Roosevelt (September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909)

Theodore Roosevelt (September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909)

William Howard Taft (March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913)

Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921)

• Signing of the Boxer Protocol
• Provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing

Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923)

Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929)

• Seditionist insurgency suppressed
• Permanent border wall established
• Pancho Villa's troops no longer an effective fighting force^[6]
• Mexican Constitutionalist faction leader Venustiano Carranza recognised as the sole leaders of the Mexican government by the United States

Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921)

• Dissolution of the PIC

• Nicaragua occupied until 1933

Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921)

Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923)

Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929)

Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933)

Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923)

Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929)

Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945)

Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923)

Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929)

 France

 

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Newfoundland
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  India
•  South Africa

 Russia
 United States
China
 Italy
 Japan
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil

• End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
• Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
• Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers
• Establishment of the League of Nations

 

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Australia
•  India
•  South Africa

 United States
France
 Japan
 Czechoslovakia
 Greece
 Poland
 Romania
 Serbia
 Italy
China

• Allied withdrawal from Russia
• Bolshevik victory over White Army

• Collapse of the Third Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945)

Harry S. Truman (April 12, 1945 –January 20, 1953)

• Korean Armistice Agreement
• North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled
• Subsequent United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
• Subsequent Chinese-North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled

Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961)

• Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina
• Dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam
• Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
• Reunification of Vietnam^[7]

John F. Kennedy (January 20, 1961 –November 22, 1963)

Lyndon B. Johnson (November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969)

Richard Nixon (January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974)

Gerald Ford (August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977)

• Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic

• INM
• LCP
• PSP

• US-Lebanese occupation of the port and international airport of Beirut

• United States sponsored Brigade 2506 (Cuban Exiles) Defeated

 

 

•  Brazil
•  Paraguay
•  Nicaragua
•  Costa Rica
•  El Salvador
•  Honduras

• Fall of the Bosch regime
• Joaquín Balaguer elected as the new president

• North Korean failure to launch an insurgency in South Korea

Richard Nixon (January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974)

 

 

Other Supports

•  Australia
•  Canada
•  France
•  Thailand

 

Other Supports

•  China
•  Czechoslovakia
•  Soviet Union

• Fall of the Kingdom of Cambodia
• Creation but eventual collapse of the Khmer Republic
• Creation of the Democratic Kampuchea
• Beginning of the Cambodian genocide

•  United States
•  France
•  United Kingdom
•  Italy

 

Lebanese Front
Army of Free Lebanon
SLA

 

• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Hezbollah
Islamic Jihad Organization

Islamic Unification Movement

 

•  Saudi Arabia
•  Sudan
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Libya
•  South Yemen

• Multinational forces fail to prevent collapse of Lebanese Army into Syrian- or Israeli- supported militias^[8][9]
• Multinational forces evacuated after the US embassy and US Marine barracks are bombed by the Islamic Jihad Organization
• Multinational forces oversee withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization
• Humanitarian crisis in Southern Lebanon
• Civil war continues until 1990
• President Hafez al-Assad continues his occupation of Lebanon until his son and later president Bashar al-Assad orders a withdrawal from the country

Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989)

• Military dictatorship of Hudson Austin deposed
• Defeat of Cuban military presence
• Restoration of constitutional government

• Failed Libyan Scud missile response
• Muammar Gaddafi survives

• U.S. Navy sinks several ships and damages Iranian military installations used to attack U.S. and U.S. allied civilian shipping
• U.S. Navy vessel USS Vincennes shoots down civilian Iran Air Flight 655 killing all 290 passengers, among them 66 children
• Iran–Iraq War ends in August 1988 following UN enforcement of the ceasefire

• Dictator Manuel Noriega deposed

• Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber III restored
• Sanctions against Iraq

• Periodic depletion of Iraqi air defenses

Bill Clinton (January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001)

George W. Bush (January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009)

• Failure to capture SNA leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid; specific Aidid lieutenants captured
• Withdrawal of U.S. forces 5 months after losses in the Battle of Mogadishu
• The UN mandate saved close to 100,000 lives, before and after U.S. withdrawal
• Civil war is ongoing

Bill Clinton(January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001)

Herzeg-Bosnia
 Croatia

 United States
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Spain
 Turkey
 United Kingdom

• Military stalemate
• Dayton Accords
• Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Over 101,000 dead, 65,000 Bosniaks, 28,000 Serbs, 8,000 Croats^{[citation needed]}
• Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to uphold the peace agreement
• High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina established to implement the peace agreement

• Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti

• Ceasefire reached through Kumanovo Agreement of June 1999. after Russian and Finnish envoys visit Belgrade
• Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosovo
• UN Resolution 1244 confirming Kosovo as de jure part of FRY
• De facto separation of Kosovo from FR Yugoslavia under UN administration
• Return of Albanian refugees after attempted ethnic cleansing of Albanians
• KLA veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency
• Around 200,000 Serbs, Romani, and other non-Albanians fleeing Kosovo and many of the remaining civilians becoming victims of abuse
• Three Chinese journalists were killed in United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

• Haqqani network

Allied groups
HIG
al-Qaeda
Islamic Jihad Union^[14]

• IMU

Taliban splinter groups

• Fidai Mahaz

IS-Affiliates:

• Wilayat Khorasan (ISIL-K)

2001 Invasion:
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

• Talibani Army
• Salafist extremists
• 055 Brigade

• United States invasion of Afghanistan (2001)
  • Destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps (2001)
  • Fall of the Taliban government (2001) and Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• Start of Taliban insurgency
  • Osama bin Laden killed by DEVGRU operators in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011
  • Doha Agreement and Progressive withdrawal of US troops after 2020
• Renewed Taliban offensive in 2021
  • Taliban forces capture Kabul on August 15, 2021 and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
  • Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017)

Donald Trump (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021)

Joe Biden (January 20, 2021 – August 30, 2021)

Islamic State of Iraq
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
IAI
Ansar al-Sunnah

2003 Invasion:
Iraq

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government
• Execution of Saddam Hussein
• Emergence of significant insurgency, rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and severe sectarian violence^[15]
• Subsequent reduction in violence and depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq^[16][17]
• Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia-led government
• U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
• Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011
• Stronger Iranian influence in Iraq^{[18][dubious – discuss][19][20][21]}
• Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal leading to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq^[22][23]
• Iraqi Civil War (2013–2017)
• Return of US forces to Iraq in 2014

Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

• UNSOM^[24]
• UNSOS^[24]
• UNGU^[24]

 European Union^[25]

Daesh
Alleged support:
 Eritrea

• Drone strikes in Somalia
• Raids against al-Shabaab militants conducted by U.S. Special Operations Forces
• African Union Intervention
• U.S. backed Ethiopian invasion in 2006
• Kenyan intervention
• Newly formed federal government established in 2012
• Power struggle within Al-Shabaab
• Majority of US Troops withdraw in January 2021
• US airstrikes against Al-Shabaab in 2021

Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017)

Donald Trump (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021)

Joe Biden (January 20, 2021 –Incumbent)

• Number of pirate attacks dramatically decreased
• The US Office of Naval Intelligence have officially reported that in 2013, only 9 incidents of piracy were reported and that none of them were successfully hijacked^{[citation needed]}
• Piracy drops 90%^[26]

 NATO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-Gaddafi rebels

• Overthrow of the Gaddafi government and the killing of Muammar Gaddafi
• Assumption of interim control by National Transitional Council (NTC)
• Diplomatic recognition of NTC as sole governing authority for Libya by 105 countries, UN, EU, AL and AU
• Post-civil war violence in Libya leading to the second civil war in 2014^[27]

• Founder and leader of the LRA Joseph Kony goes into hiding
• Senior LRA commander Dominic Ongwen surrenders to American forces in the Central African Republic and is tried at the Hague[7][8]
• Majority of LRA installations and encampments located in South Sudan and Uganda abandoned and dismantled
• Small scale LRA activity continues in eastern DR Congo, and the Central African Republic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Iran
Hezbollah

• Tens of thousands of ISIL fighters killed
• American-led forces launch over 13,300 airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq
• Heavy damage dealt to ISIL forces, ISIL loses 40% of its territory in Iraq by January 2016, and all of its territory in Iraq in December 2017
• Multinational humanitarian and arming of ground forces efforts
• 200 ISIL created mass graves found containing up to 12,000 people^[28]
• Ongoing US-led Coalition advising and training of Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces
• US maintains limited military presence in Iraq
  • Approximately 2,500 U.S. military personnel remain in Iraq as of September 2021
• US set to end combat role in Iraq by December 31, 2021

Donald Trump (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021)

Joe Biden (January 20, 2021 –Incumbent)

• Syrian Democratic Forces

Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

• IFB
• People's Protection Units
• Women's Protection Units

CJTF-OIR Members:
 United Kingdom
 France
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Canada
 Jordan
 Denmark
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Lebanon
 Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 United Arab Emirates
 Qatar
 Bahrain

Turkey

• Turkish-backed rebels

 Israel (limited involvement; against Hezbollah and government forces only)

Formerly:
Free Syrian Army (2011–2017)

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

al-Qaeda linked groups:

• al-Nusra Front
• Khorasan group
• Tahrir al-Sham
• Jaysh al-Sunna
• Jund al-Aqsa
• Ahrar al-Sham

 

Supported by:
 Russia
 Iran
Hezbollah

• Over 11,200 American and allied airstrikes hit ISIS and other extremist groups within Syria
• Thousands of ISIS targets destroyed and thousands more militants captured or killed
• ISIL lose Mosul and Raqqa (2017), then other most of territory in Iraq and then Syria
• Syrian government Chemical attack in Ghouta (2013) leading to OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria
• American support for anti-government rebels
• Deployment of U.S. Marines and Special Forces
• Massive amounts of human rights violations and war crimes, in particular by Syrian government forces
• Semi-regular chemical attacks attributed to the Assad regime leads to condemnation and threats of measures to enforce the chemical weapons convention and the Geneva protocol to which Syria is a party. Chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun results in a retaliatory naval strike on the Syrian government-controlled Shayrat Airbase, Douma chemical attack results in retaliatory strikes/
• Various confrontations and airstrikes, including a downing of a Syrian SU-17 between the United States and Syrian government and the shoot down of a Turkish F-4 by the Syrian government
• Multiple incidents between Israel and Syria, including several Syrian S-200 missiles launched toward Israeli fighter jets during an Israeli Air Force mission inside Syrian territory, and an Israeli F-16 shot down by Syrian Air Defense forces after retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets near Damascus after a Syrian drone crossed into Israeli airspace
• ISIS detainee crisis takes hold in northern Syria^[29]
• Civilian deaths due to Coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq: over 1,300 according to Coalition, 8,267–13,168 according to independent estimates.^[30]
• Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on October 27, 2019
• Approximately 900 U.S. troops remain in Syria to combat ISIS as of July 2021

Donald Trump (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021)

Joe Biden (January 20, 2021 –Incumbent)

• Liberation of Sirte
• Hundreds of airstrikes carried out in Libya against Islamic State affiliated militant groups
• ISIS presence in Libya severely diminished; airstrikes cease in 2019
• Second Libyan Civil War continues

Donald Trump (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021)