US intervention

1904-2003: History of Iraq

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See also our 1900-2000: Iraq timeline

1989-today: The War on Drugs

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The war on (certain) drugs

1983: The US invasion of Grenada

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In the autumn of 1982, President Reagan sent American marines into a dangerous situation in Lebanon, where a civil war was raging, again ignoring the requirements of the War Powers Act as the government did with Cambodia in the Mayaguez affair.

1975: The Mayaguez Affair

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The invasion was in response to Cambodia holding the crew of an American cargo ship, with the intention of re-asserting US military dominance in the wake of its defeat in Vietnam.

1948-1991: US intervention and war in South East Asia

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The US wars in Indochina fall into the same general pattern

1957-1975: The Vietnam War

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Following the partitioning of Vietnam into the pro-independence Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the North, and the US puppet state the Republic of Vietnam in the South in 1954 (see our short history of Vietnam from 1945 to 1957) elections were due to be held on re-unification.

1968-1990: The invasion of Panama and US intervention

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:02:45 +0000

Panama has been traditionally controlled by its tiny European elite, less than 10% of the population. That changed in 1968, when Omar Torrijos, a populist general, led a coup that allowed the black and mestizo [mixed-race] poor to obtain at least a share of the power under his military dictatorship.

1986: The Iran-Contra Affair

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:57:55 +0000

The major elements of the Iran/contra story were well known long before the 1986 exposures, apart from one fact: that the sale of arms to Iran via Israel and the illegal contra war run out of Colonel Oliver North's White House office were connected.

1970-1987: The contra war in Nicaragua

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:40:05 +0000

It wasn't just the events in El Salvador that were ignored by the mainstream US media during the 1970s. In the ten years prior to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, US television - all networks - devoted exactly one hour to Nicaragua, and that was entirely on the Managua earthquake of 1972.

1944-1989: The coup and US intervention in Guatemala

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Making Guatemala a killing field