The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any In fact, for many years after the Monroe Doctrine took effect, Britain, through the .Jump up to: Roosevelt, Theodore (December 6, 1904).
Afghanistan was the ground for one of the last Cold War battles between the United States and the Soviet Union<span>, after the Red Army rolled into the country on December 24, 1979. For the next decade the </span>Soviet Union<span> became bogged down in a guerrilla war against anti-</span>Soviet<span> mujahideen</span>
