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Dates: |
1775-1783 |
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Where: |
Eastern
coast of present-day United States |
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How ended: |
Treaty
of Paris, 1783 |
American
Casualties: |
est.
4,000 to 5,000 (est. 10,000 British deaths) |
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Dates: |
1812-1815 |
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Where: |
Eastern
half of the United States, Great Lakes, and Lake Champlain |
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How ended: |
Treaty
of Ghent was signed in 1814. Not yet aware of the treaty, General Andrew
Jackson engaged and crushed the British at New Orleans on January 8, 1815. |
American
Casualties: |
2,000 |
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Dates: |
1846-1848 |
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Where: |
Mexico
and southwestern United States, including modern-day Texas, California, and
New Mexico. |
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How ended: |
Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. |
American
Casualties: |
est.
13,000 |
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Dates: |
1861-1865 |
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Where: |
Primarily in the Eastern half of the United States (east of Mississippi
River) |
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How ended: |
Confederate surrender at Appomatox |
American
Casualties: |
est.
620,000 (360,000 Union, 260,000, Confederate) |
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Dates: |
April 25
- August 12, 1898 |
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Where: |
Mainly
in the Spanish possessions of Cuba and the Philippines |
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How ended: |
Treaty
of Paris, 1898 |
American
Casualties: |
5,462
(90% of American Casualties caused by disease) |
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Dates: |
1914-1918 |
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Where: |
Europe,
Atlantic Ocean |
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How ended: |
Treaty
of Versailles, 1918 |
American
Casualties: |
112,000 (est. 10,000,000 total) |
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Dates: |
1939-1945 (U.S. 1941-1945) |
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Where: |
Europe,
North Africa, Asia, Pacific islands including Hawaii, Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans |
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How ended: |
Japan
was the last Axis power to surrender on V-J Day (August 15, 1945) after the
U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
American
Casualties: |
405,000 American (2,000,000 total) |
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Dates: |
1950-1953 |
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Where: |
North
and South Korea |
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How ended: |
War
reached a stalemate in June 1951. An armistice was finally reached on July
27, 1953 |
American
Casualties: |
54,200 |
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Dates: |
1954-1975 |
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Where: |
Southeast Asia |
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How ended: |
U.S.
withdrew after a ceasefire in 1973, the war ended in a North Vietnamese
victory in 1975. |
American
Casualties: |
109,000 |
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Dates: |
August
1990 - April 1991 |
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Where: |
Iraq,
Kuwait |
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How ended: |
After a
four-day ground war, an American-led coalition declared victory. A
cease-fire agreement was signed on April 9, 1991. |
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American and Allied
casualties: |
148 |
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