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Gavrilo Princip assassinates the Archduke, one of the many things that started WW1
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A German sub sinks the Lusitania
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Britain interprets a note from Germany to Mexico asking Mexico to join the war with Germany
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The US declares war on Germany
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Russia signs a treaty with Germany declaring peace between the two countries
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Germany agrees to an armistice and the fighting comes to an end at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.
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Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany
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Japan invades China, marking the beginning of the war in the Pacific
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Germany invades Poland, marking the beginning of WWII
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The air battle of Britain begins, the Germans eventually are defeated
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
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Italy surrenders to the allied forces
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Invasion of the Normandy landing
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The US stormed a strongly strategic island of Saipan
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Allied forces liberate paris
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Germany surrenders
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August 6 and August 9 the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan
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Japan surrenders after US nuclear bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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North Korea crosses the 38th Parallel, invading South Korea.
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Truman commits US Naval and Air support to south Korea.
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U.S. and South Korea retreat from the Pusan perimeter
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US announces in UN its goal of a unified, anti-Communist Korea.
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Peace talks begin at Kaesong
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The US forces occupy Pyongyang
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A peace treaty was signed at Panmunjom. The 38th Parallel is reset as the boundary.
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John F. Kennedy is elected and is warned by Eisenhower regarding Vietnam and Laos.
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National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, aka the Viet Cong, is formed
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President Kennedy meets with Soviet leader in Vienna to discuss the attacks made by North Vietnam in Laos.
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Kennedy sends Genereal Maxwell Taylor to Vietnam. Taylor recommends sending combat troops, but Kenneddy does not approve.
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U.S. Air Force begins using Agent Orange to defoliate trails used by Vietcong force.
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The Diem regime is overthrown. The next day, Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngô Ðình Nhu were assassinated.
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JFK is assassinated in Dallas Texas
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North Vietnamese torpedos were reported to be fired at American destroyers.
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Johnson expanded the American involvement and started sustained bombing.
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After the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was signed, Johnson began sending more troops over doubling the previous amounts of troops.
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Many college students believed the draft was unfair, and many refused to go to the war.
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The Vietnamese New Year, the sent weaponry through neighboring countries to then surprise attack the South, and the Americans.
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Hawks were people who favored the war, and Doves were people who wanted the war to end.
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Nixon won the election by a slim 1%.
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Nixon starts a strategy called vietnamization, which is where US troops train South Vietnam, and eventually lead to the US to leave.
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Nixon negotiates with the South Vietnamese president and decides to pull the US out of Vietnam, after Vietnamization.
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Without the US aid, South Vietnam falls to the North. The Fall of Saigon is when the North captured the South's Capital.
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Iraq invades Kuwait because they think that Kuwait was stealing oil from their fields by slant drilling.
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The U.S. leads the coalition in an all air war against Iraq because they invaded Kuwait and refused to withdraw.
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President George H. W. Bush declares suspension of offensive combat and sets up a permanent cease fire
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Before the Iraqi accepted the U.N.'s resolutions they made a retreat and their was word of the retreat in Kuwait so the Kuwait told their country men to not go on this road, so then coalition forces then struck the beginning and end of the convoy to then attack the center. They killed over hundreds or even thousands of Iraqi soldiers. This remains on of the most controversial attacks during the Gulf war.
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Five weeks after the U.S. led coalition attacked, the Iraqi government called out for a ceasefire, and it will accept the U.N.'s terms.
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Power struggle between clan warlords kills or wounds thousands of civilians.
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Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia and it begins a civil war,
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The U.N. weapons inspectors found documents detailing Iraq's nuclear weapons program, and say Iraq was close to building a bomb.
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Former British protectorate of Somaliland land declares independence.
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Bosnia's Muslims and Croats voted for independence and it was boycotted by the Serbs.
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Ueropean union recognizes Bosnia's independence. War then breaks out, the Serbs then occupy 70 precent of the country persecuting Muslims and Croats.
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They systematically rounded up Muslims and they commited mass shootings, forced re-population, and raped females in order to clean the ethnics.
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US Marines land near Mogadishu ahead of a UN peacekeeping force sent to restore order and safeguard relief supplies
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Bosnia's peace efforts fails, and immediately war breaks out between Muslims and Croats previously allied against Serbs
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US Rangers are killed when Somali militias shoot down US helicopters.
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U.S. brokered agreement ends the Muslim-Croat war and creates a federation
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They failed their mission and then leave.
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Warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed dies of wounds and is succeeded by his son, Hussein.
