The US Military conducting an extended campaign against guerrilla fighters in those fighters' own country, the intent being to enforce democracy in the region on the pretense of saving said region from an evil regime? No: remember Vietnam? Korea? Cuba?
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The US has invaded several countries during the War on Terror in whole or in part, but the two most prominent such invasions were in AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ.
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The statement that US history is not taught past the Vietnam War is not correct. US colleges and secondary schools have quite different US history boundaries. There is a mass of US history running past the War in Vietnam.
Currently the War on Terror.
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The US has invaded several countries during the War on Terror in whole or in part, but the two most prominent such invasions were in AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ.
The last US jet aces of the 20th century (possibly the last American flying aces in history).
As of 2014, the War on Terror is an ongoing war. A report in 2011 says that over one million US soldiers have served in some way with the war.
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Both the War on Drugs and the War on Terror have created controversies having to do with privacy. For example, the War on Drugs loosened what is considered unreasonable search and seizure, while the policies of the War on Terror have resulted in many well known cases of the US government spying on its own citizens.
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war against terror reduced the value of ammerican dollar
afghanistan and Iraq
While certainly an important event in US history, the US Civil War didn't "lead" or "start" the study of US History.
The Us Civil War was the bloodiest war recorded in US history.