Question: When did the us first go into the middle east?
qaPairs: question: What war did the us first go into the middle east?
answer: First Barbary War
question: What date did the us first go into the middle east?
answer: 10 May 1801
late 18th and early 19th centuries
question: When did the us first go into the middle east for commercial relations with Persia?
answer: 1857