which war was the longest ever fought by the united states?
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Longest war ever fought by the US? The Vietnam war was the longest war American had fought in. We got involved with the war in 1954 and it ended in 1973. 58,000 Americans were killed in the war and 2-3 million Vietnamese were killed as well. 7 people found this useful.
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WAR AND PEACE The longest continuous war in U.S. history, depending on whom you ask, is the current war in Afghanistan. However, it can be argued that the Vietnam War was far longer. Why the confusion? The U.S. never officially declared war on North Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia, and heavy U.S. fighting didn't start until the '60s.
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Which war had the least casualties? I don’t believe the United States ever went to war with Zanzibar. The shortest war in the history of the United States would have been the Aroostook War, also called the Pork and Beans War. It simmered as a border dispute between New Brunswick and the State of Maine for a long time.
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- The Vietnam War (1954-1973) was a very long and costly war in which over three million people lost their lives. The United States became involved in the war to support their allies in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnam were fighting against the communist regime known as the Viet Kong.
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- The Vietnam War was the longest in U.S. history, until the war in Afghanistan that began in 2002 and continues at this writing (2013). It was extremely divisive in the U.S., Europe, Australia and elsewhere.he VC were often supplemented by units of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), more often called simply the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) by those fighting against it. Following the Tet Offensive of 1968, the NVA had to assume the major combat role because the VC was decimated during the offensive.
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The 335 Year War â The Isles of Scilly vs the Netherlands The 335 Year War - the Longest War in History. Situated off the western coast of mainland Cornwall and basking in the warmth of the Gulf Stream, the Isles of Scilly were - until 1986 - involved in the longest running war in history.
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History of United States Spanish-American War, (1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. Origins of the war. The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895.
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$1tn cost of longest US war hastens retreat from military intervention SHARES. The Afghanistan war, the longest overseas conflict in American history, has cost the US taxpayer nearly $1tn and will require spending several hundred billion dollars more after it officially ends this month, according to Financial Times calculations and independent researchers.
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The World's Shortest and Longest Wars The World's Shortest War. The Anglo-Zanzibar war, also known as the world's shortest war, was over in under 45 minutes. The exact length of time is actually debatable - some had put it as short as 38 minutes - anyways, it was a very, very short war.
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A Brief Overview of the American Civil War The American Civil War was the largest and most destructive conflict in the Western world between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the onset of World War I in 1914. The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
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- It will be America's longest war by quite some years. It's truly remarkable when you think about it. The Vietnam War may have defined 1960s and 1970s America, but it lasted 10 years by the most widely accepted metric (and, officially, it was never a war at all). And while World War I and II may have killed far more American troops, the fighting didn't linger for a decade and a half.
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Mason and Dixon Line American Civil War, also called War Between the States, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
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Indian  Wars This war was the most expensive Indian War in U.S. history, and has the added distinction of also being an Indian War in which the Native Americans did not lose. In effect, the U.S. declared the war over in 1842, even though the Seminoles had not in fact been defeated.
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-  But war itself is never so simple as that …    The battle for Verdun was fought during WW1 between the French and  German armies from February 21, 1916 to approximately December 18,  1916, a period of roughly ten months, making it the longest single  battle of WW1 and one of the longest battles in history.
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How many wars has the US lost? The United States has only lost two wars since its creation in 1776. The first one was the War of 1812. The United States declared war on the United Kingdom for a variety of reasons including possibly the loss of national pride caused Chesapeake-Leopard Affair and launched three attacks on British North America (Today’s Canada).
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Theodore Roosevelt 1898–1899: The Spanish-American War. It is arguable that the Spanish-American War in 1898 was perhaps the most pointless war in the history of the United States.
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America Has Been At War 93% of the Time â 222 Out of 239 Years â Since 1776 The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth. Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence.
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Manifest Destiny In conclusion, the armed conflict between Mexico and the United States from 1846 to 1848 was the product of deliberate aggression and should therefore be referred to as The U.S. War Against Mexico. Reprinted with permission: Voices of Mexico, Issue #41
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10 of the Longest Wars Ever Fought 8. 30 Years War, Most of Europe, 1618-1648. Starting out as a war between Protestant and Catholic German city states, the war ended up including most of Europe at various times and ended up as the Bourbons Vs. Habsburgs. Participants and alliances changed often making this one of history’s most convoluted wars.
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United States Army The U.S. Army fought and won the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), which was a defining event for both countries. The U.S. victory resulted in acquisition of territory that eventually became all or parts of the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico.
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Civil War Deadlier Than Previously Thought? Often referred to as the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, the Civil War claimed more American lives than any other military action in which the country has taken part.
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The Vietnam War In A Nutshell... The Vietnam War—commonly referred to as America's longest war—grew out of the American commitment to the containment of communism during the Cold War. For approximately fifteen years, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) fought against an American-supported Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The war for the U.S. ended in 1973 with the withdrawal of American combat troops, and two years later, South Vietnamese forces surrendered to the North.
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- The Mexican War. The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed (Feb. 2, 1848) at Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Worldâs Top Ten Biggest Wars in History So here, we have the world’s ten biggest bloodiest wars in history. 10. American Civil War (1861-1865) The American Civil War was basically a war fought between the ‘North’ or the ‘Union’ and the South also known as the ‘Confederacy’ formed by the secession of several southern slave states.
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United States Army Center of Military History  [show article only]hover over links in text for more info The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history.
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Why did the US get involved in the Vietnam war? The Vietnam War was the longest war ever fought by the United States. It lasted more than 15 years, from 1959 to 1975. It was also the first war that the United States lost. WHY THE WAR WAS FOUGHT The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. American leaders feared that Communist forces would gain control of Vietnam. After that, nation after nation might fall to Communism.