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  1. 1 day ago · The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24] : 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

  2. 1 day ago · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.

  3. Jul 17, 2024 · Despite starting the war with a massive ... They contribute to a trend that started in April 2022 with the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, and in July 2022 with the retaking of Snake Island.

  4. 4 days ago · The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela at dawn on 25 October 1983. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [9]

  5. Jul 19, 2024 · 1954 - 1975. Location: Vietnam. Participants: United States. Viet Cong. Context: Indochina wars. Major Events: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Tet Offensive. My Lai Massacre. Battle of Ia Drang. Gulf of Tonkin incident. (Show more) Top Questions. Why did the Vietnam War start? Was the Vietnam War technically a war? Who won the Vietnam War?

  6. 1 day ago · The Spanish–American War [b] (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

  7. Jul 2, 2024 · Allied invasion of Sicily, (July 9–August 17, 1943), during World War II, the invasion of the Italian island of Sicily by Allied forces. The conquest of Sicily took a little more than a month and it led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian.