| 1971-03-29 | William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1969-12-01 | Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service
3 src U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches Monthly Newsletter, Building Conservative Communications Network
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols
4 src Ronald Reagan · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · California State Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
3 src Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · General Dynamics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1966-10-15 | Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression
4 src California State Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Earl Warren · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War"
2 src U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1962-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Establishes Defense Committee and Hires First Full-Time President
8 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1961-01-17 | President Eisenhower's Farewell Address Warns Against Military-Industrial Complex
6 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors
2 src House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors |
| confirmed |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn | | confirmed |
| 1953-10-30 | Eisenhower Approves New Look Defense Policy - Cuts Military Budget by One-Third Despite Pentagon Resistance
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · John Foster Dulles | | confirmed |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics
3 src U.S. Navy | | confirmed |
| 1950-09-08 | Defense Production Act Institutionalizes Korean War Industrial Mobilization, Defense Budget Quadruples to $50 Billion
3 src Harry Truman · Boeing · Lockheed · General Electric · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies
2 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards
3 src Louis Johnson · House Armed Services Committee · U.S. Air Force |
| confirmed |
| 1949-04-04 | NATO Established - 12 Nations Form Collective Defense Pact, $1.4 Billion Defense Buildup Begins
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · North Atlantic Treaty Organization | | confirmed |
| 1948-04-03 | Marshall Plan Begins - $13 Billion Aid Program Benefits American Exporters and Defense Industry
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1947-09-18 | James Forrestal Becomes First Defense Secretary, Fusing Wall Street Financial Power with Pentagon
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework
5 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1947-03-12 | Truman Doctrine Announces $400 Million Military Aid Package - Cold War Containment Policy Begins
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · Dean Acheson | | confirmed |
| 1945-08-15 | WWII Defense Contractors Convert to Peacetime Economy While Maintaining Pentagon Subsidies and Infrastructure
3 src Boeing · Lockheed · General Dynamics · War Production Board | | confirmed |
| 1944-07-17 | Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction
3 src U.S. Navy · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP |
| confirmed |
| 1943-07-01 | Curtiss-Wright Exposed for Supplying Defective Aircraft Engines to Military
7 src Truman Committee · Harry S. Truman | | confirmed |
| 1942-12-21 | Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment
3 src Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle | | confirmed |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Defense contractors · Truman Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Production Board · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1941-04-17 | Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits
3 src Ford Motor Company · Henry Ford · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering
4 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1940-01-01 | WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering
6 src U.S. corporations · General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1939-11-04 | Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · France | | confirmed |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
3 src Du Pont family · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
3 src U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1926-02-26 | Revenue Act of 1926 Slashes Top Tax Rate to 25%, Abolishes Gift Tax in Full Mellon Plan
3 src Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1915-05-07 | Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed
4 src British Government · JP Morgan & Co. |
| confirmed |
| 1914-08-01 | JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit
4 src JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · Woodrow Wilson |
| confirmed |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence
3 src William McKinley |
| confirmed |
| 1893-01-17 | U.S. Marines Land in Honolulu, American Businessmen Overthrow Hawaiian Kingdom and Depose Queen Liliuokalani in Illegal Coup
5 src Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines · Grover Cleveland |
| confirmed |
| 1890-12-29 | Wounded Knee Massacre - U.S. 7th Cavalry Kills 250+ Lakota, Primarily Women and Children, Ending Ghost Dance Movement
3 src U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
4 src Sanford B. Dole |
| confirmed |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1874-08-30 | Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government
3 src White League | | confirmed |
| 1874-07-02 | Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands
3 src U.S. Army · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1864-11-29 | Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1863-03-02 | Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · Abraham Lincoln |
| confirmed |
| 1862-05-01 | General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1861-04-12 | Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry
3 src Abraham Lincoln · James Buchanan | | confirmed |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions
3 src U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1859-10-16 | John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid Exposes Slave Power's Armed Defense of Institutional Capture
3 src John Brown · James Buchanan · U.S. Marines | | confirmed |
| 1847-01-04 | Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract
3 src U.S. government | | confirmed |
| 1846-05-11 | Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims
3 src James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1837-11-07 | Abolitionist Editor Elijah Lovejoy Murdered by Pro-Slavery Mob; No Prosecutions Follow
4 src John Quincy Adams · John Brown · Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1819-02-22 | Adams-Onís Treaty Acquires Florida Through Coerced Spanish Cession After Jackson's Unauthorized Invasion
3 src James Monroe | | confirmed |
| 1818-08-01 | National Road Reaches Wheeling, Demonstrating Federal Infrastructure Capability Despite Constitutional Debates
3 src U.S. Congress · Thomas Jefferson · George Washington | | confirmed |
| 1817-11-21 | First Seminole War Begins as Jackson Invades Spanish Florida to Recapture Enslaved People
3 src Spanish Empire · U.S. War Department | | confirmed |
| 1812-06-18 | War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud
3 src James Madison · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1807-12-22 | Embargo Act Demonstrates Economic Warfare Against Domestic Political Opposition
3 src Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · Federalist Party | | confirmed |