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FSOT - Wars&Des
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Caused the U.S. to enter WWI? | The United States originally wished to remain neutral when World War I broke out in August 1914. However, it insisted on its right as a neutral party to immunity from German submarine attack. The ships carried food and raw materials to Britain. In 1917 th |
| When did WWI end? | By summer 1918, a million American soldiers, or “doughboys” as they were often called, of the American Expeditionary Force were in Europe under the command of John J. Pershing, with 25,000 more arriving every week. The failure of Germany’s spring offensiv |
| What was the Polar Bear Expedition? | The involvement of U.S. troops, during the tail end of World War I and the Russian Revolution, in fighting the Bolsheviks in Arkhangelsk, Russia in 1918 and 1919. |
| What were the Neutrality Acts of 1930? | Intended to prevent the U.S. from supporting either side in a war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to support Britain, however, and in 1940 signed the Lend-Lease Act, which permitted an expansion of the “cash and carry” arms trade to develop with t |
| What date did WWII start? | September 1st 1939. |
| What caused the US to enter WWII? | US involvement in World War II was initially limited to providing war material and financial support to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China. The US entered officially on 8 December 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai |
| Why did the US bomb Japan? | In the Pacific, the US experienced much success in naval campaigns during 1944, but bloody battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945 led the US to look for a way to end the war with minimal loss of American lives. The U.S. used atomic bombing of Hiroshima a |
| What was the Cold War? | The continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World - primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies - and the powers of the Western world |
| What was the National Security Act of 1947? | ombined and replaced the former Department of the Navy and War Department with a single cabinet-level Department of Defense. The act also created the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Air Force. |
| What was the Korean War? | A conflict between the United States and its United Nations allies and the communist powers under influence of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. The principal combatants were North and South Korea. Principal allies of South Korea includ |
| What was Operation Blue Bat? | In the Lebanon crisis of 1958 that threatened civil war, Operation Blue Bat deployed several hundred Marines to bolster the pro-Western Lebanese government from July 15 to October 25, 1958. |
| What was Operation Power Pack? | April 28, 1965, 400 Marines were landed in Santo Domingo to evacuate the American Embassy and foreign nationals after dissident Dominican armed forces attempted to overthrow the ruling civilian junta. By mid-May, peak strength of 23,850 U.S. soldiers, Mar |
| What was the Vietname War? | A Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, a |
| Did the US win the Vietnam War? | No. The U.S. framed the war as part of its policy of containment of Communism in south Asia, but American forces were frustrated by an inability to engage the enemy in decisive battles, corruption and incompetence in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, a |
| What was the Tet Offensive? | A military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. Regular and irregular forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. The purpose |
| What was Operation Eagle Claw? | During and Iran hostage crisis, Operation Eagle Claw was an attempt to rescue the hostages. It failed because of inappropriate equipment, incomplete and unrealistic planning, and the lack of joint service training. The fiasco led directly to the creation |
| What was Operation Urgent Fury? | In October, 1983, a violent power struggle threatened American lives in the small Caribbean nation of Grenada. Neighboring nations asked the U.S. to intervene. The invasion was a hurriedly devised grouping of paratroopers, Marines, Rangers, and special op |
| What was Operation El Dorado Canyon? | Code-named “Operation El Dorado Canyon”, comprised the joint United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps air-strikes against Libya on April 15, 1986. The attack was carried out in response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing. |
| What was the 1986 Berlin Discotheque Bombing? | Libya was blamed for the bombing after telex messages had been intercepted from Libya to the Libyan East Berlin embassy congratulating them on a job well done. |
| Why did the US invade Panama in 1989? | On December 20, 1989 the United States invaded Panama, mainly from U.S. bases within the then-Canal Zone, to oust dictator and international drug trafficker Manuel Noriega. American forces quickly overwhelmed the Panamanian Defense Forces, Noriega was cap |
| What was the Persian Gulf War? | A conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States. The lead up to the war began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 which was met with immediate economic sanctions by the United Nations against Iraq. The coa |
| What was Operation Restore Hope? | US troops participated in a UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia beginning in 1992. By 1993 the US troops were augmented with Rangers and special forces with the aim of capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, whose forces had massacred peacekeepers from Pak |
| What was Operation Uphold Democracy? | (September 19, 1994 - March 31, 1995) An intervention designed to remove the military regime installed by the 1991 Haitian coup d’état, which overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The operation was effectively authorized by the 31 July 1 |
| What was Operation Joint Endeavour? | During the war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the US operated in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the NATO-led multinational implementation force (IFOR) in Operation Joint Endeavour . The USA was one of the NATO member countries who bombed Yugoslavia |
| What is the War on Terrorism? | A global effort by the governments of several countries (primarily the United States and its principal allies) to neutralize international terrorist groups (primarily radical Islamist terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda) and ensure that rogue nations no |
| What was Operation Enduring Freedom? | The invasion of Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan) to depose that country's Taliban government and destroy training camps associated with al-Qaida is understood to have been the opening, and in many ways defining, campaign of the broad |
| What was the 2003 invasion of Iraq? | After the lengthy Iraq disarmament crisis culminated with an American demand that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein leave Iraq, which was refused, a coalition led by the United States and the United Kingdom fought the Iraqi army in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. |
| What was Operation Odyssey Dawn? | the U.S. code name for the US part of the international military operation in Libya to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. During the initial period of 19-31 March 2011, which continued afterwards under NATO command as Operation Unifi |
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