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In Sarajevo, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.
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Austria declares war on Serbia.
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Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium, Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan.
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USA declares war on Germany.
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies, the official date of the end of World War One.
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Peace conference met at Paris.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans.
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The Nazi's murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
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The Olympics started in Germany in 1936 where Hitler favored Germany to win.
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During Hitler's Reichstag speech, he threatened all the Jews in preparation of starting the Holocaust.
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Germans invaded Poland without Soviet intervention and the Polish army was defeated within weeks.
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Holland surrenders to the Nazi's.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, also attacking the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.
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U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan.
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First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine.
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Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.
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U.S. And Japanese carriers meet in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons resulting in a Japanese defeat.
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After WW2, Korea is divided into communist. North Korea and anti-communist South Korea at the 38th parallel.
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First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets.
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With Russia's permission, North Korea invades South Korea going towards the Seoul capital.
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President Harry Truman sends U.S. troops to Korea to help stop the spread of communism.
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U.S. troops push their way into Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
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China joins the war to fight on the side of North Korea. China's army pushes the U.S. and South Korean troops back across the 38th parallel.
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Men full of weapons decided to invade South Korea using guerrilla warfare.
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He was overthrown from presidency and him and his brother were captured and both assassinated.
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3 North Vietnamese navy boats pursued and fired missiles at the USS Maddox and called it a "sea battle". One U.S aircraft was damaged while all three North navy boats were damaged
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200,000 American troops arrive in South Vietnam.
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First major battle while in Vietnam against the North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops, lead by Colonel Hal Moore.
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Launch of many attacks on over 100 cities, military success, public loss.
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While looking for the Vietcong, U.S. troops were lured to My Lai where they accidentally killed 500 unarmed villagers, led by William Calley.
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Lyndon Johnson did not run and Nixon won on the promise to end the war.
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Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, and Le Duc Tho, for the Hanoi government, start talks in Paris.
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Withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam
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30,000 U.S. troops bomb Cambodia because of the belief that North Vietnamese troops were moving and keeping supplies there.
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Protests against the war, 4 were killed and 9 were injured by the National Guard.
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U.S. changes the age from 21 to 18 to vote.
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All 591 POW's (Prisoners Of War) were brought home.
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After the war is over and U.S troops returned home, Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam falls to communism.
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George H.W. Bush was elected to be the 41st president of the United States
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Russia and the United States agreed to cut off the supply of weapons to Iraq to oppose their actions against Kuwait.
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Iraq's army started invading Kuwait with a large number of troops and within a day take over the country.
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United Nations weapon inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's nuclear weapons program and its said that they were close to building a bomb.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina declare their independence as a free nation
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The United Nations authorized humanitarian relief efforts by sorting out the confusion among the groups in the region and the United States would airlift supplies in to the most needed areas.
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President Bush ordered for a food airlift to be sent over to Somalia due to famine and warfare.
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The United States wanted to avoid using their military in the efforts of helping Somalia.
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U.S. Marines and the Navy arrived in Mogadishu to help secure the area and get rid of warlords Mohammed Farrar Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed.
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Bosnian Muslims and Croats start fighting over the parts of Bosnia not already taken by Serbs which is about 30% of the original territory.
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The United States attacked Aidid by helicopter and caused 4 western journalists to be killed.
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Dozens of U.S. troops were either killed or wounded while fighting in the capital city Mogadishu, Somalia.
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A mortar exploded in Sarajevo as an act of terrorism and killed 68 people.
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As Iraqi troops headed towards Kuwait to invade again, President Bush sent 54,000 troops therefore causing Iraq's troops to back off.
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Serb forces refuse to remove heavy weapons from Sarajevo therefore NATO launches an aircraft attack on Serb ammunition storage. In retaliation, Serbs begin attacking the Muslim safe zones put in place by the United Nations.
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After NATO attacks in and around Sarajevo, talks of peace begin leading to Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia to agree to a settlement.
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President Clinton discusses in giving support to Bosnia until he finally decides to send 20,000 troops to Bosnia
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United States sent airplanes and ships into to Iraq to fire dozens of missiles to discourage them from retaliating.
