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  2. Foreign interventions by the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States government has been involved in numerous interventions in foreign countries throughout its history. The U.S. has engaged in nearly 400 military interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post-Cold War period. [1]

  3. List of military inventions - Wikipedia

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    United States. Soviet Union. Spy satellites, eliminated the need to recover deorbited film canisters Digital cameras: Compiler: 1952 United States: Allow programs to be written for multiple target computers by different vendors without needing to rewrite the assembly for each of them. Compiler: Internet: 1960s - 1970s United States [4]

  4. United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    US military aid, per historian Phillips O'Brien, were "systems of limited range and defensive purpose". The delay in delivering weapons and ammunition resulted in Russian construction of defenses in late 2022 and early 2023. [8] The US president said the U.S. military would not fight Russia in Ukraine, but would defend every inch of NATO ...

  5. American Expeditionary Force, Siberia - Wikipedia

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    American soldiers from the 31st Infantry marching near Vladivostok Russia April 27, 1919. The American Expeditionary Force, Siberia (AEF in Siberia) was a formation of the United States Army involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russia, after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920.

  6. Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    In 1994, Ukraine, Russia, the UK and the US signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, agreeing to abandon its nuclear arsenal in exchange for assurances from Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States against threats or the use of force towards the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.

  7. Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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    Although Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and does not have a military alliance with the United States or any NATO nation, [3] from 24 January to 3 August 2022, the Kiel Institute has tracked $84.2 billion from the 40 NATO-member countries in financial, humanitarian, and military aid to Ukraine.

  8. Timeline of United States military operations - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, the United States was fighting a covert military operation using CIA paramilitary forces, known as The Secret War. 1964: Congo (Zaire): The United States sent four transport planes to provide airlift for Congolese troops during a rebellion and to transport Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreigners.

  9. United States and the Russian Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The United States responded to the Russian Revolution of 1917 by participating in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the Allies of World War I in support of the White movement, in seeking to overthrow the Bolsheviks. [1] The United States withheld diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1933. [2]