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== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
=== 1700s ===
* 1766: The Sons of Liberty, a group that forms the ideological backbone of American Revolution, assists the British Empire in crushing the [[Westchester Tenant's Revolt (1766)|Westchester Tenant's Revolt]].
* 1776: The US begins invading Cherokee territory, conquering it by 1795.
* 1778: The US signs a treaty with indigenous nations promising to keep their independence.
* 1785: The US invades the indigenous Western Confederacy in order to expand their territory.
* 1786: The US helps crush the proto-socialist [[Shay's Revolt]] in Massachusetts.
* 1791: The US violently crushes tax protesters, leading to a rebellion which is soon suppressed.
* 1798: The US begins to attack French shipping in responses to attacks on American shipping, done in response to the American refusal to repay debt owed to France.
=== 1800s ===
* 1801: The US begins to attack North African states in responses to piracy.
* 1811: The US violently suppresses a slave uprising in the Territory of Orleans (now Louisiana)
* 1811: The US invades Tecumeh's Confederacy, destroying it and claiming the territory for itself.
* 1812: The US attempts to invade Canada but is nearly destroyed by the British Empire.
* 1813: The US invades the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, claiming the territory.
* 1815: The US begins to attack North African states in responses to piracy.
* 1817: The US invades Seminole territory and takes Spanish Florida.
* 1820: The US and Mexico launch a war of extermination against the Comanche people in Texas.
* 1823: The US attempts to invade indigenous Arikara territory in what is now North Dakota, but the war leads to a stalemate.
* 1825: The US navy begins operations in the Aegean sea to stop Greek Pirates.
* 1827: The US suppresses the Winnebago Uprising to make way for lead mining interests.
* 1893: The US and several businessmen engineer a coup that overthrows the monarchy in Hawaii and leads to its annexation by the US, without the consent of the population.
* 1898: The US declares war on the Spanish Empire, taking Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba and the Philippines.
* 1899: The US helps crush the Boxer Rebellion to ensure the west will continue to control China.


=== 1900s ===
=== 1900s ===
* 1910: The US begins interfering in the Mexican Revolution, attempting to destroy socialist factions.
* 1936: The US refuses to aid Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War (despite FDR's sympathy for their cause and plans to assist, diplomatic advisors block it) and US corporations provide massive aid to the Nationalists, including providing oil on credit and 12,000 trucks to their forces.
* 1912: The US occupies Nicaragua for the next 21 years.
* 1945: The US begins smuggling Nazi and Japanese war criminals into their country and giving them amnesty for their crimes against humanity in exchange for information of military strategy, spy networks, torture techniques, chemical warfare, weapons and disease outbreaks.
* 1914: The US invades Mexico and occupies the city of Veracruz.
* 1947: The US and UK begin assisting former fascists and far-right militias in Greece to prevent socialists from taking power.
* 1915: The US occupies Haiti for the 19 years.
* 1947: The US rigs elections in Italy to prevent socialists taking government power for the next 24 years through a combination of massive funding of opposition, working with the mafia to attack communist offices, intimidate communists and occasionally murder them.
* 1916: The US occupies the Dominican Republic for 8 years.
* 1949: The US assists a coup in Syria to ensure control of oil pipelines.
* 1918: The US (alongside the [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Canada]], [[France]] and [[Australia]]) invades Northern Russia (specifically Arkhangelsk) in order to secure a victory for the [[Whites (Russia)|Whites]] in the [[Russian Civil War]], killing nearly 3,000 people in a a pointless war.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_Intervention</ref>
* 1949: The US and UK work to overthrow the socialist government in Albania, using former fascists and Nazi collaborates paid by the US.
* 1918: The US (alongside the [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Canada]], [[France]], [[Italy]], Czechoslovakia, China, Mongolia and Japan) invades Eastern Siberia, Russia in order to secure a victory for the [[Whites (Russia)|Whites]] in the [[Russian Civil War]], killing nearly 8,000 people in a a pointless war.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Intervention</ref>
* 1950: The US aids exiled Chinese anti-communists in northern Myanmar, using CIA-owned airlines to help move troops, weapons and guns that finance their operations. This leads to an explosion in the global heroin trade and continued attacks in China.
* 1923: The US crushes the last attempted indigenous revolt in the country, ending 150 years of armed revolts by indigenous americans.
* 1953: The US sponsors a coup in Iran to stop the president from nationalising oil supplies in order to pay for a welfare state based on the New Deal.
* 1941: The US orders and executes a military coup in [[Panama]] due to Panama's refusal to allow the US to build 130 military bases in the country for a low price, creating a new puppet government.
* 1954: The US sponsors a coup that overthrows a social democracy in Guatemala for their redistribution of unused land owned by US-corporations and sponsoring of literacy programs.
* 1949: The US helps (although the exact level of their involvement is unknown) a military coup in [[Syria]] overthrow a democratically elected government, the new regime fast tracks the construction of the Trans-Arabian Oil Pipeline.
* 1955: The US begins sponsoring the Tibetan Independence Movement during anti-socialist uprisings.
* 1952: Project FF (the "FF" standing for "Fat Fucker") sees the US organise a military coup in Egypt, toppling a monarchy and creating a puppet republic which was nationalistic and anti-communist, claiming that the monarchy wasn't taking enough of a stand against the USSR.
* 1956: US-sponsored radio stations encourage citizens across Hungary to rebel, helping begin the doomed Second Hungarian Revolution.
* 1958: The US begins financing conservative governments in [[Japan]] to stop the socialists rising to power.<ref name=":0">[[William Blum]] (2003) [[Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower]], Chapter 18: Perverting Elections</ref>
* 1973: The US organises and assists a military coup in Chile to overthrow the socialist president Salvador Allende, who's administration had seen nationalisation of copper mines, expansion of the welfare state and the formation of workers' councils.
* 1958: The US military occupies airports and ports in Lebanon to stop socialist parties taking power.
* 1975: The US uses CIA pressure on [[Australia|Australian]] government officials to end the prime ministry of Gough Whitlam, a social democrat who planned to close US military bases in the country, notably Pine Gap.
* 1961: The US fails to invade Cuba at the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion|Bay of Pigs]] in an effort to destroy the new socialist government.
* 1974: After the [[Carnation Revolution]] in [[Portugal]] (which called for [[Workers' Self-Management|workers' control]], free elections and a large welfare state) the US begins sending millions of dollars to the [[Social Democracy|social democrats]] to ensure communists will not take power electorally.<ref name=":0" />
* 1983: The US invades Grenada in order to oust a successful socialist government.
* 1987: The US tries to rig the first free elections in Haiti in 30 years, supporting various right-wing candidates and paying propaganda outlets to portray centre-left candidates as communists until ordered to stop by the US senate.<ref name=":0" />
* 1989: The US invades Panama in order to ensure US control and ownership of the Panama Canal.
* 1990: The US invades Iraq in order to secure the independence of Kuwait, a key part of US regional interests.
* 1996: The US helps Boris Yeltsin win the 1996 election in Russia by using sophisticated methods of public relations like message development, polling, focus groups, paid crowds, direct-mailing and a scripted a meeting with US president Bill Clinton to make it seem like Russia could stand up to the west.<ref name=":0" />
* 1996: The US helps various right-wing parties in [[Mongolia]] stop the incredibly popular communist party winning elections. The new parties lowered taxes, cut the welfare state, privatised state industry and housing, leading to widespread poverty in the country. The US also set up electronic listening posts in Mongolia to help spy on China as well as deploying agents into [[China]] from there.<ref name=":0" />
* 1998: The US stops 14 candidates from running in elections in [[Bosnia]] due to their leftist rhetoric.<ref name=":0" />
 
=== 2000s ===
* 2001: The [[9/11 Terrorist Attacks|9/11 attacks]] occur, where hijacked airliners destroy several skyscrapers in New York and two others attempt to destroy key government buildings in Washington DC, speculation occurs that the US was behind the attacks to create a culture of fear and mistrust in the country, as well as justify invasions of other countries.
* 2001: The US launches a controversial invasion of Afghanistan in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks.
* 2003: The US launches an invasion of Iraq to secure the interests of the oil industry.
* 2019: The US begins efforts to undertaken regime change in [[Venezuela]] in order to stop the authoritarian socialist government and create a puppet state in a country with the world's largest oil reserves.
* 2019: The US prepares for an invasion of Iran, blaming the sinking of two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on the government.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 05:59, 7 July 2019

A timeline of the actions taken by the United States Government in order to secure greater power and wealth at the expense of people, both its own and abroad.

Timeline

1900s

  • 1936: The US refuses to aid Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War (despite FDR's sympathy for their cause and plans to assist, diplomatic advisors block it) and US corporations provide massive aid to the Nationalists, including providing oil on credit and 12,000 trucks to their forces.
  • 1945: The US begins smuggling Nazi and Japanese war criminals into their country and giving them amnesty for their crimes against humanity in exchange for information of military strategy, spy networks, torture techniques, chemical warfare, weapons and disease outbreaks.
  • 1947: The US and UK begin assisting former fascists and far-right militias in Greece to prevent socialists from taking power.
  • 1947: The US rigs elections in Italy to prevent socialists taking government power for the next 24 years through a combination of massive funding of opposition, working with the mafia to attack communist offices, intimidate communists and occasionally murder them.
  • 1949: The US assists a coup in Syria to ensure control of oil pipelines.
  • 1949: The US and UK work to overthrow the socialist government in Albania, using former fascists and Nazi collaborates paid by the US.
  • 1950: The US aids exiled Chinese anti-communists in northern Myanmar, using CIA-owned airlines to help move troops, weapons and guns that finance their operations. This leads to an explosion in the global heroin trade and continued attacks in China.
  • 1953: The US sponsors a coup in Iran to stop the president from nationalising oil supplies in order to pay for a welfare state based on the New Deal.
  • 1954: The US sponsors a coup that overthrows a social democracy in Guatemala for their redistribution of unused land owned by US-corporations and sponsoring of literacy programs.
  • 1955: The US begins sponsoring the Tibetan Independence Movement during anti-socialist uprisings.
  • 1956: US-sponsored radio stations encourage citizens across Hungary to rebel, helping begin the doomed Second Hungarian Revolution.
  • 1973: The US organises and assists a military coup in Chile to overthrow the socialist president Salvador Allende, who's administration had seen nationalisation of copper mines, expansion of the welfare state and the formation of workers' councils.
  • 1975: The US uses CIA pressure on Australian government officials to end the prime ministry of Gough Whitlam, a social democrat who planned to close US military bases in the country, notably Pine Gap.

References

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