List of wars involving the United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a chronological list of wars involving the United States during and since the American Revolutionary War, detailing all constituent military campaigns.

Dates indicate the years in which the United States was involved in the war.

War or conflict	Opponent(s)	Initial authorization	Votes		UNSCR	President(s)	Conclusion(s)
War or conflict	Opponent(s)	Initial authorization	Senate	House	UNSCR	President(s)	Conclusion(s)
American Revolutionary War	United Kingdom American Loyalists Anhalt-Zerbst Ansbach-Bayreuth Hanover Hesse-Hanau Hesse-Kassel Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Waldeck-Pyrmont Iroquois Cherokee	Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms July 6, 1775	-	-	-	President of the Continental Congress Hancock, Laurens, Jay, Huntington, McKean, Hanson	Treaty of Paris (1783)
Northwest Indian War	Western Confederacy				-	George Washington	Treaty of Greenville 1795
Quasi-War	France	Act Further to Protect the Commerce of the United States July 9, 1798			-	John Adams	Convention of 1800 (Treaty of Mortefontaine)
First Barbary War	Barbary States Barbary Pirates	1801			-	Thomas Jefferson	"Treaty of Peace and Amity" 1805
War of 1812	United Kingdom British North America Shawnee Red Sticks Ojibway Chickamauga Meskwaki Iroquois Miami Mingo Odawa Kickapoo Lenape Mascouten Potawatomi Sauk Wyandot	June 18, 1812	19-13	79-49	-	James Madison	Treaty of Ghent December 24, 1814
Second Barbary War	Algiers Barbary Pirates	1815			-	James Madison	1816
First Seminole War	Seminole Spanish Florida	1817			-	James Monroe	1818
Winnebago War	Ho-Chunk	1827			-	John Quincy Adams	Treaty with the Winnebago August 1829
Black Hawk War	British Band	1832			-	Andrew Jackson	Black Hawk Purchase September 21, 1832
First Sumatran Expedition	Cheifdom of Quallah Battoo	1832	-	-	-	Andrew Jackson	February 9, 1832
Second Seminole War	Seminole	1835			-	Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren	1842
Second Sumatran Expedition	Cheifdom of Quallah Battoo	1838	-	-	-	Martin Van Buren	1838
Mexican-American War	Mexico	May 13, 1846	40-2	173-14	-	James Polk	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo February 2, 1848
Navajo Wars	Navajo	1846			-	John Tyler James Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln	1863
Cayuse War	Cayuse	1847			-	John Tyler James Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore	1853
Apache Wars	Apache Ute Yavapai	1851			-	Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses Grant Rutherford Hayes James Garfield Chester Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley	1900
Bombardment of San Juan del Norte	Nicaragua				-	Franklin Pierce	July 13, 1854
Third Seminole War	Seminole	1855			-	Franklin Pierce James Buchanan	1858
Second Opium War	Qing Dynasty	1856			-	James Buchanan	Treaty of Tianjin June 18, 1858 1859
Redress for attack on U.S. Navy vessel	Paraguay	1859				James Buchanan
American Civil War	Confederate States of America	April 12, 1861			-	Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson	April 9, 1865 Reconstruction Reconstruction Amendments
Dakota War	Dakota Sioux	1862			-	Abraham Lincoln	Surrender at Camp Release September 26, 1862
Colorado War	Cheyenne Arapaho	1863			-	Abraham Lincoln	1865
Japanese Conflict	Chōshū Domain	1863			-	Abraham Lincoln	1864
Comanche Campaign	Cheyenne Arapaho Comanche Kiowa	1867			-	Andrew Johnson Ulysses Grant	1875
General Sherman incident	Joseon Dynasty	August 1866			-	Andrew Johnson	August 1866
Red Cloud's War	Lakota Cheyenne Arapaho	1866			-	Andrew Johnson	Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
Korean Expedition	Joseon Dynasty	June 10, 1871			-	Ulysses Grant	June 11, 1871 Treaty of Amity and Commerce 1882
Modoc War	Modoc	July 6, 1872			-	Ulysses Grant	June 4, 1873
Black Hills War	Lakota Northern Cheyenne Arapaho	1876			-	Ulysses Grant	1877
Nez Perce War	Nez Perce	1877			-	Ulysses Grant	1877
Bannock War	Bannock Shoshone	1878			-	Rutherford B. Hayes	1878
Cheyenne War	Cheyenne	1878			-	Rutherford B. Hayes	1879
Sheepeater Indian War	Shoshone	1879			-	Rutherford B. Hayes	1879
White River War	Ute	1879			-	Rutherford B. Hayes	1880
Ghost Dance War	Sioux	1890			-	Benjamin Harrison	1891
Spanish-American War Cuban War of Independence Puerto Rican Campaign Pacific Campaign	Spain	April 25, 1898	42-35	310-6	-	William McKinley	Treaty of Paris (December 10, 1898)
Philippine Insurrection	First Philippine Republic Revolutionary forces Pulajanes	1899			-	William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt	July 4, 1902
Moro Rebellion	Sultanate of Sulu Moro	May 24, 1900			-	William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Taft	1913
Boxer Rebellion	Righteous Harmony Society Qing Empire	September 28, 1900			-	William McKinley	China Relief Expedition, 1900 Boxer Protocol, September 7, 1901
Occupations of Honduras	Honduran revolutionaries	March 23, 1903			-	Theodore Roosevelt William Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge	April 21, 1925
Occupation of Cuba	Cuban revolt	Platt Amendment 1906			-	Theodore Roosevelt William Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt	Treaty of Relations 1934
Occupation of Nicaragua	Liberal rebels	May, 1910			-	William Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt	1933
Mexican Revolution	Mexico Yaqui	Tampico Affair April 9, 1914			-	Woodrow Wilson	1918
Occupation of Haiti	Haiti Caco rebels	July 28, 1915			-	Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt	August 1, 1934
Occupation of the Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	1916			-	Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge	1924
World War I European Theatre, 1917 - 1918 First Battle of the Atlantic, 1917-1918	Germany Austria-Hungary	April 6, 1917 December 7, 1917	82-6 74-0	373-50 365-1	-	Woodrow Wilson	Armistice with Germany November 11, 1918 Paris Peace Conference 1919 Treaty of Berlin (August 25, 1921) Treaty of Trianon (in part)
Russian Civil War	Russia	August 15, 1918			-	Woodrow Wilson	April 1, 1920
World War II Second Battle of the Atlantic, 1941 - 1945 Pacific War, 1941 - 1945 African Theatre, 1942 - 1943 European Theatre, 1942 - 1945	Japan Germany Italy Bulgaria Hungary Romania	December 8, 1941 December 11, 1941 December 11, 1941 June 5, 1942 June 5, 1942 June 5, 1942	82-0 88-0 90-0 73-0 73-0 73-0	388-1 393-0 399-0 360-0 357-0 361-0	-	Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman	V-J Day, Japanese Instrument of Surrender (September 2, 1945), Treaty of San Francisco (September 8, 1951) V-E Day, Unconditional German Surrender, (May 8, 1945), Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (September 12, 1990), Treaty of Vienna with Austria (May 15, 1955) Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947 Paris Peace Treaty (February 10, 1947)
Cold War Greek Civil War, 1947 - 1949 First Indochina War, 1950 - 1954 Korean War, 1950 - 1953 Second Indochina War, 1953 - 1975 First Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954 - 1955 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958 Bay of Pigs, 1961 Operation Power Pack, 1965 - 1966 Second Korean War, 1966 - 1976 Angolan Civil War, 1975 - 1976 Soviet-Afghan War, 1979 - 1989 Nicaraguan Civil War, 1981 - 1990 Operation Urgent Fury, 1983 Operation Just Cause, 1989 - 1990	Democratic Army of Greece N.O.F. partisans Soviet Union Yugoslavia Bulgaria Albania Viet Minh Pathet Lao Khmer Issarak United Issarak Front People's Republic of China North Korea North Vietnam Viet Cong Cuba Khmer Rouge MPLA AAF Mozambique FSLN Afghanistan Grenada Panama	Battle Act Tonkin Resolution - - - - - Operation IA Feature - - - - .	- 88-2 - - - - - - - - - - .	- 416-0 - - - - - - - - - - .	- - 84 - - - - - - - - - - - .	Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower John Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George Bush	Hellenic Army victory Partition of Vietnam, Geneva Summit (1955) Armistice, Korean Demilitarized Zone 1953 Vietnamization, Paris Peace Accords 1973, Fall of Saigon 1975 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty December 2, 1954 Ceasefire Rebels captured 1961 Ceasefire, Joaquín Balaguer elected Hostilities cool Clark Amendment, Ceasefire 1989 Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan May 15, 1988 - February 15, 1989 Ceasefire, Violeta Chamorro elected 1990 Constitution restored Manuel Noriega captured January 3, 1990 Dissolution of the USSR, Malta Summit December 3, 1989
Operation Blue Bat	Lebanese Rebels	1958				Dwight Eisenhower	October 25, 1958
Multinational Force in Lebanon	Shia militia Druze miltia Syria	UN Security Council Resolution 425 March 19, 1978 S.J. Res. 159 September 29, 1983	54-46	253-156	425 426	Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan	1984
First Gulf of Sidra Incident	Libya	1981				Ronald Reagan	1981
Operation Prairie Fire	Libya	March, 1986				Ronald Reagan	1986
Operation El Dorado Canyon	Libya	April 15, 1986				Ronald Reagan	1986
Iran-Iraq War	Iran	1987				Ronald Reagan	1989
Second Gulf of Sidra Incident	Libya	January 4, 1989				Ronald Reagan	1989
Gulf War	Iraq	UN Security Council Resolution 678 November 29, 1990 H.R.J. Res. 77 January 12, 1991	52-47	250-183	678	George Bush	UNSCR 689, 1991
Iraqi no-fly zones	Iraq	5 April 1991			688	George Bush Bill Clinton	Iraq sanctions, Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 - 1996 Operation Southern Watch, 1992 - 2003 Cruise missile strikes on Iraq (June 1993) Cruise missile strikes on Iraq (1996) Operation Northern Watch, 1997 - 2003 Operation Desert Fox, 1998 Operation Southern Focus, 2002 - 2003
Somali Civil War	Various Somali factions	1992				George Bush Bill Clinton	1994
Bosnian War	Croatia Serbia	1992	-	-	770 776 836	Bill Clinton	Reflagged as IFOR in 1995 Reflagged as SFOR in 1996 Completed in 2004
Operation Uphold Democracy	Haiti	September 19, 1994				Bill Clinton	March 31, 1995 Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti
Kosovo War	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	1999				Bill Clinton	Military Technical Agreement 1999
Global War on Terrorism War in Afghanistan, October 7, 2001 - ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines, January 15, 2002 - ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa, October 7, 2002 – ongoing Iraq War, March 20, 2003 – present Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara, February 6, 2007 - ongoing	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban al-Qaeda IMU HI-Gulbuddin HI-Khalis Haqqani network TTP IEW Quetta Shura TNSM Jemaah Islamiyah Abu Sayyaf Rajah Sulaiman Movement Islamic Courts Union Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahedeen Hizbul Islam Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia Somali Pirates Yemeni Pirates Ba'athist Iraq Baath Party Loyalists Islamic Army of Iraq Ansar al-Sunnah Kurdistan Workers Party al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb	S.J. Res. 23 September 14, 2001 H.J. Res. 114 October 16, 2002	98-0 77-23	420-1 296-133	1368 1378	George W. Bush Barrack Obama	Ongoing
Second Liberian Civil War	Peacekeeping	2003	-	-	1497	George W. Bush	US Forces withdraw in 2003 after UNMIL is established
2004 Haitian rebellion	Peacekeeping	2004	-	-	1529 1542	George W. Bush	2004

List of wars involving the United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Views

Personal tools

Navigation

Search

Interaction

Toolbox

Languages