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List of U.S. foreign interventions since 1945 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This is a list of United States interventions or alleged interventions since 1945.

Table of contents

1 1940s
2 1950s
3 1960s
4 1970s
5 1980s
6 1990s
7 2000s
8 External links

1940s

Alleged US support to Portuguese dictator Salazar, 1930s to 1974.
Occupation and rebuilding of Japan 1945-1952 after World War II, drafting Japan's current democratic constitution. (see Occupied Japan)
Occupation and rebuilding of West Germany after World War II. Merged US occupation zone with the French and British zones to form the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.
U.S. provides military aid to right-wing forces battling Communist insurgents in Greece in 1947. (See Greek Civil War)
Central Intelligence Agency involvement in Italian elections, involving propaganda and the alleged buying of votes, in order to prevent the Communist Party of Italy coming to power, in 1948. (See 1948 Italian election)
Marshall Plan 1948-1951
U.S. financial and military support of the Republic of China against the People's Liberation Army.

1950s

Funding of French Indochina War from 1945 until 1954.
Largest contributor in UN-led Korean War from 1950 until 1953.
U.S. (CIA) and UK (MI-6) succeed in removal of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran (Operation Ajax) - 1953.[1]
CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala (Operation PBSUCCESS) - 1954.
U.S. support for President Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam from 1955 - 1963. [1]
Suez Canal Crisis - The United States demands that the United Kingdom, France and Israel withdraw their armies from the Suez Canal
U.S. support for Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista (amongst others against Marxist insurgents) until his overthrow in 1959.
CIA-orchestrated rebellion in China (Tibet), 1959.

1960s

U.S.-backed abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961.
CIA planning to assassinate Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Congo and alleged involvement in his death. [1] [1] Belgium has since officially apologized for its own role in the affair. [1]
Alleged CIA involvement in the 1963 Canadian election.
CIA involvement in the assassination of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, their former ally in the Dominican Republic, in 1961 [1] [1]
Alleged CIA involvement in overthrow of Juan Bosch, the democratically elected leader of the Dominican Republic. [1]
Alleged CIA-backed overthrow of José María Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador in 1963.
U.S. backs coup against South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. [1]
CIA-backed overthrow of João Goulart in Brazil in 1964. [1] [1]
CIA covert support for the election of Eduardo Frei Montalva of Chile in 1964.
Alleged CIA-backed overthrow of Sukarno in Indonesia in 1965. [1]
Vietnam War - (1964–1975)
Bombing campaigns against Laos
Bombing campaigns against Cambodia
Funding for the conservative, pro-Western Botswana Democratic Party
Involvement in riots and violence that brought down the government of Cheddi Jagan in Guyana.
Alleged CIA-backed military coup brings dictator Joseph Mobutu to power in the Congo in 1965.
Alleged CIA support to military coup against Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah in 1966.
Alleged CIA-backed military coup ushers in Regime of the Colonels in Greece in 1967.
American support for Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.
CIA-organized military operation ends in execution of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967.
CIA involvement in the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico, 1968

1970s

Alleged CIA-supported coup against Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia in 1970.
Alleged CIA-supported military coup against President Juan José Torres of Bolivia in 1971.
American support for Pakistan in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War.
Alleged CIA corruption of the 1972 Australian election.
Political and economic intervention in Chile against president Salvador Allende; contacts with military officers planning to overthrow Allende.
U.S. support for Indonesian invasion and occupation of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor)(1975).
CIA support for UNITA rebels in Angola, from 1976 - 1984.
Alleged corruption of 1976 Portuguese Election.
Alleged corruption of 1976 Jamaican Election.
Approval of and support for the "Dirty War" military junta in Argentina (1976-1983).
U.S. backs military dictators of El Salvador (1977). [1]
Following overthrow of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in Nicaragua by the Sandinistas, the CIA supports the Contras from 1979 - 1989. resolution. [1]
Support of ousted Khmer Rouge, 1979–1993
Alleged American intervention in civil war in Yemen, from 1979 - 1984.

1980s

CIA support for José Napoleon Duarte and other anti-Communist politicians alleged to have links with right-wing death squads. [1]
Provision of military assistance to Hissène Habré of Chad leading to the overthrow of Libya-supported neutralist Goukouni Oueddei.
Sale of small arms and weapons production materials to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War
Sale of arms to Iran (see Iran–Contra Affair;)
Training of Nicaraguan Contras and support to military regimes in Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, and South America during the 1980s.
Alleged CIA support to Gwangju Massacre in 1980.
Alleged CIA and South African backing to a coup attempt in the Seychelles in 1981.
American support for Israel in the 1982 Lebanon War.
Support for military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt in Guatemala {1982-1983.} Alleged CIA support for the coup that brought him into power.
US invasion of Grenada, overthrow of Marxist government (Operation Urgent Fury) - 1983.
Assassinations and bombings against anti-nuclear politicians in the American colony of Palau.
Alleged involvement in the mysterious death of Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (1986).
U.S. support to coup against Timoci Bavadra, democratically elected Prime Minister of Fiji in 1987.
U.S. invasion of Panama, overthrow of Manuel Noriega (Operation Just Cause) - 1989.

1990s

Intervention in Colombian civil war, 1990's
Corruption of elections in Bulgaria in 1990 and in Albania in 1991 [1].
Funding to the opposition presidential candidate, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, in Sandinista-ruled Nicaragua. Chamorro won the election.
UN-led Gulf War following Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 1991
U.S. Support for ousting Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti, 1991 [1].
U.S.-led UN sanctions against Iraq, from 1990 to 2003.
U.S. intervention in Somalia, 1993.
U.S. removal of Raoul Cedras from office in Haiti and temporary occupation of the country, 1993.
Alleged support for Mexico in fighting the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, 1994.
NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs, 1995.
U.S.-led bombing campaign, called Operation Desert Fox, against Iraq in enforcement of the UN designated No-Fly zones created to protect Kurds and Marsh Arabs, 1998.
U.S. bombing of Afghanistan in 1998.
U.S. bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan, 1998.
NATO's bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo Conflict. Officially aimed at preventing ethnic cleansing of Albanians, 1999. During this bombing the Chinese embassy was hit. Some say this was done deliberately [1].

2000s

U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, overthrow of Taliban in 2001.
The Hague Invasion Act, 2002.
Alleged CIA-backed abortive coup against democratically-elected President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela in 2002. [1]
U.S. Invasion of Iraq, overthrow of Saddam Hussein - 2003
American support in the overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti in 2004. (see: 2004 Haiti rebellion)
Support to the Venezuelan opposition in the run-up to the referendum on Hugo Chávez' rule. Many elements were linked to the above-mentioned coup in 2002.
Alleged support (along with Spain and Britain) for a failed coup plot against Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea in 2004. [1]

As well as these military interventions the United States also pursued and gained economic controls over many developing states. Some claim that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank assisted American foreign policy in this area. (If correct, this would also require implicit co-operation of other countries, as the US has only 18% of the IMF's voting rights. [1])

External links

A Hemisphere of Our Own: U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America - 2 Hours Talk Given by Noam Chomsky at UC Berkeley in 1984 - RealAudio format.
Conversations with History: Militarism and the American Empire - With Chalmers Johnson, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute - RealVideo format.
Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993 by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
United States Military Campaigns, Conflicts, Expeditions and Wars Compiled by Larry Van Horn, U.S. Navy Retired
Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism
US interventions in Latin America
When foreign intervention is justified: Women under the Taliban

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