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For VA purposes, in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations Chapter 38 Paragraph 3.2 (f), the Vietnam Era is "The period beginning on November 1, 1955, and ending on May 7, 1975, inclusive, in the case of a veteran who served in the Republic of Vietnam during that period. The period beginning on August 5, 1964, and ending on May 7, 1975 ...
Below is a set of articles which each provide a list of wars within a specific time period, each covering at least several decades or more. List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars ...
The table below lists the five wars in which the United States has formally declared war against ten foreign nations. [8] The only country against which the United States has declared war more than once is Germany, against which the United States has declared war twice (though a case could be made for Hungary as a successor state to Austria-Hungary).
President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941). House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1. Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941), [1] [2] was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the ...
Persian Gulf War encyclopedia : a political, social, and military history. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-416-2. Hillman, James L. (1993). "Task Force 1-41 Infantry: The Fratricide Experience in Southwest Asia" (PDF). Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College. OCLC 28169776. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 ...
The period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was one of the greatest eras of economic expansion in world history. In the US, Gross Domestic Product increased from $228 billion in 1945 to just under $1.7 trillion in 1975.
After World War II, many countries adopted policies of economic liberalization in order to stimulate their economies.. The period directly after the war did not see many, the most notable exception being" West Germany's reforms of 1948, which set the stage for the Wirtschaftswunder in the 1950s and helped inform many of the liberalisations that were to come.
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-38148-1. Parshall, Jonathan and Anthony Tully. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (2005). Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan (1985) Tillman, Barrett.