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

• 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

 

 Mexico

 Republic of Texas
 United States
Choctaw Nation

• Extinction of many tribes in Texas, including the Karankawan, Akokisa and Bidui

 

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

• 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

• Apaches moved to reservations

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

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grand Ronde and Coast Reservations

• 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

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

• 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

• Long Walk of the Navajo
• Navajos moved to reservations

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 Indian Territory.

• Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington

• Chōshū pays an indemnity of $3,000,000

• 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)

• End to the Texas-Indian Wars

• Cattle returned to Texas

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

• 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

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

• 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

• Dissolution of the PIC

• Nicaragua occupied until 1933

 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

• Occupation of Hopeh and Shantung provinces
• Japanese and Koreans repatriated
• American and other foreign nationals evacuated

• 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

• Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic

• PRC seizes the Yijiangshan and Dachen Islands

• INM
• LCP
• PSP

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

• United States sponsored Brigade 2506 (Cuban Exiles) Defeated

• 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[8]

Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge (until 1978)[9][10]
Supported by:
 North Vietnam (until 1976)
 Vietnam (from 1976)
 People Republic of China (1971–1978)
Malayan Communist Party
 North Korea[10]

• Amnesty declared on April 23, 1980 by the Thai government
• Order 66/2523 signed by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda
• Communist insurgency declines and ends in 1983

• North Korean failure to launch an insurgency in South Korea

 

 

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

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

 

 

• CIA

• Che Guevara captured and executed

 

 

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

Angola
 Cuba
 Soviet Union

• Thousands of civilians evacuated from Kolwezi

• Deterioration of US-Libyan relations

•  United States
•  France
•  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[11][12]
• 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

• 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

• Two Libyan MiG-23 fighters shot down

• Dictator Manuel Noriega deposed

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

• Periodic depletion of Iraqi air defenses

• 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

Herzeg-Bosnia
 Croatia

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

• Dayton Accords
• Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Over 101,000 dead, 65,000 Bosniaks, 28,000 Serbs, 8,000 Croats
• 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
• Three Chinese journalists were killed in United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

• Strikes hit targets but failed objectives[17]
• al-Qaeda suffers damage and casualties; however, its senior leaders survive the strikes
• Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant destroyed

• Haqqani network

Allied groups
HIG
al-Qaeda
Islamic Jihad Union[18]

• 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)
• Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under the Karzai administration
• Start of Taliban insurgency
• Drone strikes in Pakistan
• Death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011
• Death of Mohammed Omar in July 2013
• Over two-thirds of Al-Qaeda's operatives killed or captured
• International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) disbanded in December 2014
• Commencement of Resolute Support Mission in December 2014

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government
• Execution of Saddam Hussein

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

2003 Invasion:
Iraq

• Emergence of significant insurgency, rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and severe sectarian violence[20]
• Subsequent reduction in violence and depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq[21][22]
• 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[23][24][25][26]
• 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[27][28]
• Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
• Return of US forces to Iraq in 2014

 

 Pakistan

Daesh

• Insurgency substantially reduced,[29] TTP territorial control eliminated.[30]
• Destruction of many insurgent safe havens and deaths of thousands of insurgents including dozens of high-ranking leaders,[31] among them successive TPP heads Baitullah Mehsud, Hakimullah Mehsud, and Maulana Fazlullah.
• Reduction and eventual halt of drone strikes in 2017.[32]
• Tribal areas merged into Pakistan, tribal law abolished and constitutional law established as of 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• UNSOM[33]
• UNSOS[33]
• UNGU[33]

 European Union[34]

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

• 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
• Piracy drops 90%[35]

 NATO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-Gaddafi rebels

• Overthrow of the Gaddafi government and the death 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 ongoing civil war in 2014[36]

• LRA eliminated as a threat to Uganda, reduced to around 100 members[37]
• LRA leader Joseph Kony remains a fugitive
• Conflict remains ongoing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 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[38]
• Ongoing US-led Coalition advising and training of Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces
• US maintains limited military presence in Iraq