Stacker scoured primary documents, news reports, and studies to bring you U.S. Marines history from the year you were born, stretching back to 1920.
The U.S. decision to send 14,000 marines to Lebanon during the civil war of 1958 exasperated Lebanese peoples. The American military intervention, as a result, contributed to a cultural process in which many Lebanese began to imagine the United States as an "imperial" force, inheriting the ...
Stacker scoured primary documents, news reports, and studies to bring you U.S. Marines history from the year you were born, stretching back to 1920.
In 1958, Eisenhower authorized Operation Blue Bat, an invasion of 14,000 US troops in the ongoing civil war in Lebanon. This was the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine under which the U.S. announced that it would intervene to protect regimes it considered threatened by international ...
Marines left Nicara. But by October of that year, Nicaraguan Gen. Emiliano Chamorro Vargas staged a successful coup d’état against Solorzano. Chamorro became president, but the U.S. did not recognize his rule; after a liberal revolt, the U.S. military in January 1926 sent gun-boats and...
hostages then held in Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan, which was to divert proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, which had been specifically prohibited under the Boland Amendment. North was granted limited immunity from prosecution in...
The Versailles Treaty created the states of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq from the Ottoman provinces north of the Hejaz; in April 1921 the Emirate of Transjordan, carved out of southern Syria and eastern Palestine, was recognize as a state. But these “independent” states were all to ...
Stacker scoured primary documents, news reports, and studies to bring you U.S. Marines history from the year you were born, stretching back to 1920.
(1981–89); he implored the president to withdraw U.S. marines from Lebanon in 1984 and criticized him sharply during theIran-Contra Affairin 1986. After Pres.George H.W. Bush(1989–93) signed into law theClean Air Act(1990), which threatened the livelihood of coal miners in his home ...