This war was "round 2" fighting the British as they challenged our young country to lands west of the Appalachian Mts. and burned down the White House!

This war killed more Americans than all wars of the 20th century as our nation fought over slavery and state's rights (1860-1865)

This war was fought for lands of Texas and much of the West/Southwest, and was the largest land acquisition in U.S. History (1846-1848).

This war reinforced the Monroe Doctrine to keep Europe from further colonizing lands in the Western Hemisphere, as we fought to kick Spain out of Cuba (1898).

Europe was primed for war as Imperialism, Militarism, Alliances, and an assassination thrust these industrial nations into deadly trench warfare (1914-1918).

This war saw the rise of Fascist dictators that were encouraged by free world leaders giving in to their demands (appeasement), Holocaust, and 1st use of Atomic bombs (1939-1945).

After the 2nd World War we immediately fell into tension with our former communist ally (Russia), and fought to stop the spread of communism in East Asia (1950-1953).

This war was the 2nd time we fought to stop the spread of communism; this time in Southeast Asia, and we were not successful (1965-1975).

This 40 year period of time followed WW-2, and is marked by high tensions, spying, propaganda, space race, etc. between the free world (U.S.) and communist powers (Soviets), (1945-1989).

The last major engagement of the 20th century when the U.S. led a coalition of 35 nations to kick Iraq (Saddam Hussein) out of Kuwait after their sudden invasion, which threatened the World's oil supply (1990-1991).

The 21st century began with the most deadly attack on U.S. soil when radical Muslim extremists (Al-Qaeda) killed 3,000 Americans with suicide plane missions on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon (2001).