Question: When did the us first go into the middle east?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: What war did the us first go into the middle east?
What date did the us first go into the middle east?
When did the us first go into the middle east for commercial relations with Persia?
answer: First Barbary War
10 May 1801
late 18th and early 19th centuries
1857
Natural Questions answer: 1833 (from the Wikipedia article "United States foreign policy in the Middle East")