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Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo.
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The “Lusitania" was sunk by a German U-boat.
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria.
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Start of the Brusilov Offensive which ends on August 10th.
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USA declares war on Germany.
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Turkey made peace.
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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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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
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Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis invade Poland.
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Japan enters WWII, joining the German-Italian Axis coalition.
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German troops enter Romania.
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.
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U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand.
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Japanese bomb Manila.
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First U.S. troops arrive in Australia.
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Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths.
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Korea is split into North and South
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The United States drops an atomic bomb—the first to be used in warfare—on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000.
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North Korea invades South Korea
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Untied States enters war on South Korea's part
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U.S. is defeated at Osan
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U.S. troops invade at Inchon
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North Korea and South Korea agree to a truce.
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Def: The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
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Starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.
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American helicopters arrive at docks in South Vietnam along with 400 U.S. personnel, who will fly and maintain the aircraft.
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Helicopters flown by U.S. Army pilots ferry 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to sweep a NLF stronghold near Saigon. It marks America's first combat missions against the Vietcong.
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Letting the youngest man elected president also be the youngest president to die.
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The US says North Vietnamese patrol boats fire on two US Navy destroyers.
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The first bombing raids of Rolling Thunder are flown.
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First major engagement between regular U.S. Army forces and the People's Army of Vietnam.
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One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the VC.
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The Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
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Pointless battle and a direct assault against a heavily defended and strategically insignificant hill, resulted in over 400 U.S. casualties and caused an outrage back home.
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Communist revolutionary leader dies at 79.
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The shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard.
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An Iranian Commercial flight is shot down by U.S. forces on Persian soil in result of an incorrect call.
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Hussein orders to invade the neighboring country Kuwait.
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U.N. Security Council authorized the use of “all necessary means” of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait by the following January 15.
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Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait.
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Led by Norman Schwarzkopf.
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Troops headed from northeastern Saudi Arabia into Kuwait and southern Iraq.
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Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. Begins civil war.
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Declare their independence from Yugoslavia - Begins Civil War
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38.000 troops from 23 countries ans reps from 49 humanitarian groups.
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To protect the US food airlift, the first American forces arrived.
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Italy sent 2,500 combat troops to Somalia as part of the US-sponsored multinational force.
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Battle between US troops and Somalian militiamen.
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68 killed 200 more wounded
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An estimated 8,000 Srebrenican men and boys are killed.
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Massive NATO bombing forces.
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At the Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
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Peace talks between Koreas
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Authorizes humanitarian relief efforts.
