Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages and Declarations of War Book

1. John Adams: Quasi-War with France, 1797-1798
2. Thomas Jefferson: War with Barbary States, 1801-1806
3. James Madison: War of 1812, 1812; War with Algiers, 1815
4. Andrew Jackson: Intervention in Sumatra and Falklands, 1831-1832
5. James K. Polk: War with Mexico, 1846
6. Abraham Lincoln: Civil War, 1861
7. Ulysses S. Grant: Korean Expedition, 1871
8. William McKinley: Spanish-American War, 1898; Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1900; China Relief Expedition, 1900
9. Theodore Roosevelt: Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, 1903-1906
10. William H. Taft: Nicaragua, 1912
11. Woodrow Wilson: Intervention in Mexico, 1914-1916; Intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 1914; World War I, 1917-1918; Intervention in Russia, 1918-1919
12. Calvin Coolidge: Occupation of Nicaragua, 1927-1928; Intervention in China, 1927
13. Franklin D. Roosevelt: World War II, 1941-1942
14. Harry S. Truman: Korea, 1950
15. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Taiwan Strait, 1954; Lebanon, 1958
16. John F. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
17. Lyndon B. Johnson: Vietnam, 1964; Dominican Republic, 1965
18. Richard M. Nixon: Invasion of Cambodia, 1970
19. Gerald R. Ford: Mayaguez Incident, 1975
20. Jimmy Carter: Iran, Hostage Rescue Attempt, 1980
21. Ronald Reagan: Marines in Beirut and Intervention in Grenada, 1983; Strike against Libya, 1986; Intervention in Persian Gulf against Iran, 1987
22. George H. W. Bush: Intervention in Panama, 1989; Persian Gulf War against Iraq, 1990-1991; Intervention in Somalia, 1992
23. William J. Clinton: Intervention in Somalia, 1993; Strike against Iraq, 1993; Intervention in Haiti, 1993-1994; Intervention in Bosnia, 1993, 1995; Intervention in Kosovo, 1999
24. George W. Bush: Al-Qaida Terrorist Attack, 2001