A brief history of the American Empire

1800s -
Defense of shipping, naval and foriegn assets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_history_events#Covert_operations.2C_coups.2C_military_advisors_etc.
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HAWAI Start of American Imperialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawai%27ian_Monarchy


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Invaded canada, ass handed, whitehouse burnt down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

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MEXICO
1840s war, spread empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War

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Japan
1850 - us navy breaks jap isolationism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Matthew_Perry

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SPAIN
first war of lies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War

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1900s

PHILIPINES 1898 - 1913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War

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The United States occupied Nicaragua from 1909-1933 and intervened in the country several times before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Nicaragua

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VIETNAM
1955-64 -- Vietnam. First military advisors sent to Vietnam on 12 Feb 1955. By 1964, US troop levels had grown to 21,000. On 7 August 1964. On 7 August 1964, US Congress approved Gulf of Tonkin resolution affirming "All necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States. . .to prevent further aggression. . . (and) assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asian Collective Defense Treaty (SEATO) requesting assistance

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CUBA

Church committee investigated watergate, illegal activities of FBI CIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

1961 JFK auth'ed "help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Project

False flag attack plans against cuba to incite an invasion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

1951 fucked up invasion of cuba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

Luis Posada Carriles - US linked terrorist given political protection for years, most recently by bush
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_Flight_455


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1968 -- Laos & Cambodia. U.S. starts secret bombing campaign against targets along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the sovereign nations of Cambodia and Laos. The bombings last at least two years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Commando_Hunt

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Nicaragua

Sell arms to iran, use proceeds to finance contra in nicaracua, US found guilty of international terrorism,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_vs._United_States

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US Government funding and training of Guatemalan "Death Squads" 90 - 91
CIA Overthrow gov in 53, subsequent dictator, 30 years civil war, 200,000 dead, pariah statae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism_by_Guatemala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Arbenz_Guzm%C3%A1n

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1988 -- Panama. Operation Just Cause In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented 10,000 US military personnel already in the Panama Canal Zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Just_Cause