The United States and a coalition of Caribbean countries [a] invaded the small island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela, at dawn on 25 October 1983. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [8] .

U.S. invasion of Grenada, (October 25, 1983), U.S.-led invasion of the Caribbean country of Grenada to overthrow a military government that had taken power in a bloody coup days earlier.

2022年11月30日 · The United States’ Invasion of Grenada: Tuesday, October 25, 1983, a small group of United States Navy SEALs along with allied forces from some Caribbean nations quietly landed at the north of St. Georges in the Caribbean island of Grenada.

2018年12月3日 · On October 25, 1983, nearly 2,000 United States Marines led an invasion of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada.

2023年10月24日 · On October 25, 1983, thousands of U.S. troops landed on the island. This year, Grenada commemorates both 50 years as an independent nation and 40 years since the violent implosion of the People’s Revolutionary Government and subsequent U.S. invasion.

The US invasion of Grenada in 1983 was the result of a series of political developments, both internal to Grenada and in the broader geopolitical context of the Cold War. The primary reason cited by the Reagan administration was to protect the lives of approximately 600 American students studying at St. George’s University School of Medicine.

2016年7月11日 · On 25th of October 1983, the US together with its allies from the Eastern Caribbean Defense Force invaded Grenada, in the response of the coup d’etat that occurred only nine days earlier.