maandag 2 september 2013

Amerikaanse Oorlogen


De officiele Amerikaanse oorlogen. Daar komen nog bij al het geheime geweld, de staatsgrepen etc. die de VS organiseerde.

US Presidents in Chronological Order and Their Wars

a table compiled in an evening of looking things up
intermittently elaborated and updated thereafter
by 
Laurie Spiegel

#NameLivedHeld OfficeWar(s)
----King Philip's War (1675)
----King William's War (1689-1697)
----Queen Anne's War (1702-1713)
----Yamasee War (1715-16)
(South Carolina Yamasee Tribe)
----King George's War (1744-1748)
----French and Indian Wars (1754-1763)
1Washington, George1732-17991789-1797Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
2Adams, John1735-18261797-1801-
3Jefferson, Thomas1743-18261801-1809Tripolitan War (1801-1805)
against Tripoli (now in Libya)
4Madison, James1751-18361809-1817War of 1812
the Creek War (1813-14)
5Monroe, James1758-18311817-1825Indian Wars of 1817-1821
First Seminole War (1817-18)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
6Adams, John Quincy1767-18481825-1829-
7Jackson, Andrew
"Old Hickory"
1767-18451829-1837Black Hawk War (1832)
Second Seminole War (1835-42)
8Van Buren, Martin1782-18621837-1841-
9Harrison, William Henry*1773-18411841-
10*Tyler, John1790-18621841-1845-
11Polk, James Knox1795-18491845-1849Mexican War (1846-1848)
12*Taylor, Zachary
"Old Rough and Ready"
1784-18501849-1850-
13*Fillmore, Millard1800-18741850-1853-
14Pierce, Franklin1804-18691853-1857Third Seminole War (1855-58)
15Buchanan, James1791-18681857-1861-
16Lincoln, Abraham*1809-18651861-1865Civil War (1861-65)
17*Johnson, Andrew1808-18751865-1869-
18Grant, Ulysses Simpson (Hiram Ulysses)1822-18851869-1877Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
19Hayes, Rutherford Birchard1822-18931877-1881-
20Garfield, James Abram*1831-18811881-
21*Arthur, Chester Alan1829-18861881-1885-
22Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover1837-19081885-1889Apache Wars against Geronimo (1876-1886)
23Harrison 2, Benjamin1833-19011889-18931st Pan-American Conference (1889)
24Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover1837-19081893-1897-
25McKinley, William*1843-19011897-1901Spanish-American War (1898)
26*Roosevelt, Theodore1858-19191901-1909Awareded 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Russo-Japanese War
27Taft, William Howard1857-19301909-1913-
28Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow1856-19241913-1921World War I (1914-1918)
League of Nations
Awarded 1919 Nobel Peace Prize
29Harding, Warren Gamaliel*1865-19231921-1923-
30*Coolidge, (John) Calvin1872-19331923-1929-
31Hoover, Herbert Clark1874-19641929-1933-
32Roosevelt, Franklin Delano*1882-19451933-1945World War II (1939-1945)
33*Truman, Harry S.1884-19721945-1953atomic bombing of Japan (1945)
Cold War with Soviet Union
United Nations, Marshall Plan (1948)
NATO (1949)
Korean War (1950-1953)
34Eisenhower, Dwight David
"Ike"
1890-19691953-1961Cold War with Soviet Union continues
35Kennedy, John Fitzgerald*1917-19631961-1963established Peace Corps (1961)
Bay of Pigs incident
36*Johnson, Lyndon Baines1908-19731963-1969escalated involvement in Vietnam War (1954-1975)
37Nixon, Richard Milhous**1913-19941969-1974"War on Drugs" (1971)
visited China (1972)
détente with U.S.S.R.
eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia
38**Ford, Gerald Rudolph.1913-1974-1977-
39Carter, James Earl, Jr. "Jimmy."1924-1977-1981Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel (1979)
40Reagan, Ronald Wilson1911-1981-1989military involvements in Grenada, Central America, Lebanon, Libya
Cold War subsides (Glasnost with U.S.S.R.)
41Bush, George Herbert Walker1924-1989-1993Persian Gulf War I with Iraq (1990)
42Clinton, William Jefferson "Bill"1946-1993-2001Persian Gulf War II with Iraq (1999)
Serbia vs. Bosnia, Kosovo, NATO...
43Bush, George W. "Dubya"1946-2001-2009Afgan War against the Talliban and Al Qaeda (2001...)
Iraqi Invasion and Occupation (2003...)
"War on Terror"
44Obama, Barack Hussein II1961-2009-"Pashtunistan - Waziristan War"
or (as I also choose to call it) "The War Across the Durand Line",
continuing legacy of all G. W. Bush Administration wars.
Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Use of asterisks (*):
name*died in office
*namereplaced preceding President who died
name**left office before completion of term
**namereplaced preceding living President

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