Timeline of US Hegemony

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

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.
• 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

• 1910: The US begins interfering in the Mexican Revolution, attempting to destroy socialist factions.
• 1912: The US occupies Nicaragua for the next 21 years.
• 1914: The US invades Mexico and occupies the city of Veracruz.
• 1915: The US occupies Haiti for the 19 years.
• 1916: The US occupies the Dominican Republic for 8 years.
• 1918: The US (alongside the UK, Canada, France and Australia) invades Northern Russia (specifically Arkhangelsk) in order to secure a victory for the Whites in the Russian Civil War, killing nearly 3,000 people in a a pointless war.
• 1918: The US (alongside the UK, Canada, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, China, Mongolia and Japan) invades Eastern Siberia, Russia in order to secure a victory for the Whites in the Russian Civil War, killing nearly 8,000 people in a a pointless war.
• 1923: The US crushes the last attempted indigenous revolt in the country, ending 150 years of armed revolts by indigenous americans.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1958: The US begins financing conservative governments in Japan to stop the socialists rising to power.
• 1958: The US military occupies airports and ports in Lebanon to stop socialist parties taking power.
• 1961: The US fails to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an effort to destroy the new socialist government.
• 1974: After the Carnation Revolution in Portugal (which called for workers' control, free elections and a large welfare state) the US begins sending millions of dollars to the social democrats to ensure communists will not take power electorally.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1998: The US stops 14 candidates from running in elections in Bosnia due to their leftist rhetoric.

2000s

• 2001: The 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.