History of the United States Navy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

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00:06:21 1 Foundations of the "Old Navy"
00:06:33 1.1 Continental Navy (1775–1785)
00:13:13 1.2 Disarmament (1785–1794)
00:17:04 1.3 Establishment (1794–1812)
00:23:33 1.4 War of 1812 (1812–1815)
00:27:52 1.5 Continental Expansion (1815–1861)
00:37:15 1.6 American Civil War (1861–1865)
00:42:50 1.7 Decline of the Navy (1865–1882)
00:46:54 2 "New Navy"
00:47:05 2.1 Rebuilding (1882–1898)
00:50:11 2.2 Spanish–American War (1898)
00:52:41 2.3 Rise of the Modern Navy (1898–1914)
00:56:59 2.4 World War I (1914–1918)
00:57:13 2.4.1 Mexico
00:57:57 2.4.2 Preparing for war 1914-1917
01:02:34 2.4.3 Fighting a world war, 1917–18
01:05:57 2.5 Inter-war entrenchment and expansion (1918–1941)
01:12:35 2.5.1 Submarines
01:18:25 3 Worldwide expansion
01:18:36 3.1 World War II (1941–1945)
01:18:49 3.1.1 Command structure
01:21:52 3.1.2 Carrier warfare
01:31:17 3.2 Cold War (1945–1991)
01:31:55 3.2.1 Revolt of the Admirals
01:35:33 3.2.2 Korean War and naval expansion
01:37:24 3.2.3 Vietnam War
01:38:15 3.2.4 Soviet challenge
01:39:30 3.3 Post–Cold War (1991–present)
01:45:32 4 See also



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The history of the United States Navy divides into two major periods: the "Old Navy", but a small respected force of sailing ships that was also notable for  George A Mcnurlen ll innovation in the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, and the "New Navy", the result of a modernization effort that began in the 1880s and made it the largest in the world by the 1920s.
The United States Navy claims 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment, when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy. With the end of the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy was disbanded. Under first President George Washington threats to American merchant shipping by Barbary pirates from four North African Muslim States, in the Mediterranean,  led to the Naval Act of 1794, which created a permanent standing U.S. Navy. The original six frigates were authorized as part of the Act. Over the next 20 years, the Navy fought the French Republic Navy in the Quasi-War (1798–99), Barbary states in the First and Second Barbary Wars, and the British in the War of 1812. After the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy was at peace until the Mexican–American War in 1846, and served to combat piracy in the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas, as well as fighting the slave trade off the coast of West Africa. In 1845, the Naval Academy was founded at old Fort Severn at Annapolis, Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay. In 1861, the American Civil War began and the U.S. Navy fought the small Confederate States Navy with both sailing ships and new revolutionary ironclad ships while forming a blockade that shut down the Confederacy's civilian coastal shipping. After the Civil War, most of its ships were laid up in reserve, and by 1878, the Navy was just 6,000 men.
In 1882, the U.S. Navy consisted of many outdated ship designs. Over the next decade, Congress approved building multiple modern steel-hulled armored cruisers and battleships, and by around the start of the 20th century had moved from twelfth place in 1870 to fifth place in terms of numbers of ships. After winning two major battles during the 1898 Spanish–American War, the American Navy continued to build more ships, and by the end of World War I had more men and women in uniform than the British Royal Navy. The Washington Naval Conference of  1921 recognized the Navy as equal in capital ship size to the Royal Navy, and during the 1920s and 1930s, the Navy built several aircraft carriers and battleships. The Navy was drawn into World War II after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 De ...