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International Crisis

  • WWI - Ferdinand

    WWI - Ferdinand

    Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo.
  • WWI - Lusitania

    WWI - Lusitania

    The “Lusitania" was sunk by a German U-boat.
  • WWI - Italy War

    WWI - Italy War

    Italy declared war on Germany and Austria.
  • WWI - Brusilov Offensive

    WWI - Brusilov Offensive

    Start of the Brusilov Offensive which ends on August 10th.
  • WWI - War Declaration

    WWI - War Declaration

    USA declares war on Germany.
  • WWI - Turkey

    WWI - Turkey

    Turkey made peace.
  • WWI - End

    WWI - End

    Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
  • WWII Europe - Hitler in Power

    WWII Europe - Hitler in Power

    Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
  • WWII Europe - Nazis Rise

    WWII Europe - Nazis Rise

    Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
  • WWII Europe - Purge

    WWII Europe - Purge

    Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.
  • WWII Europe - Czechoslovakia

    WWII Europe - Czechoslovakia

    Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
  • WWII Europe - Poland

    WWII Europe - Poland

    Nazis invade Poland.
  • Vietnam - Axis

    Vietnam - Axis

    Japan enters WWII, joining the German-Italian Axis coalition.
  • WWII Europe - Romania

    WWII Europe - Romania

    German troops enter Romania.
  • WWII Europe - Lend-Lease

    WWII Europe - Lend-Lease

    President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
  • WWII Pacific - Pearl Harbor

    WWII Pacific - Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.
  • WWII Pacific - War

    WWII Pacific - War

    U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand.
  • WWII Pacific - Manila

    WWII Pacific - Manila

    Japanese bomb Manila.
  • WWII Pacific - Australia

    WWII Pacific - Australia

    First U.S. troops arrive in Australia.
  • WWII Pacific - Bataan Death March

    WWII Pacific - Bataan Death March

    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.
  • Korea - Korea Splits

    Korea - Korea Splits

    Korea is split into North and South
  • Vietnam - Hiroshima

    Vietnam - Hiroshima

    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.
  • Korea - Invasion

    Korea - Invasion

    North Korea invades South Korea
  • Korea - U.S. Aid

    Korea - U.S. Aid

    Untied States enters war on South Korea's part
  • Korea - Defeat at Osan

    Korea - Defeat at Osan

    U.S. is defeated at Osan
  • Korea - Inchon

    Korea - Inchon

    U.S. troops invade at Inchon
  • Korea - Truce

    Korea - Truce

    North Korea and South Korea agree to a truce.
  • PreVietnam - Eisenhower Articulates Domino Theory

    PreVietnam - Eisenhower Articulates Domino Theory

    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.
  • PreVietnam - Berlin Wall

    PreVietnam - Berlin Wall

    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.
  • PreVietnam - More Help

    PreVietnam - More Help

    American helicopters arrive at docks in South Vietnam along with 400 U.S. personnel, who will fly and maintain the aircraft.
  • PreVietnam - Operation Chopper

    PreVietnam - Operation Chopper

    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.
  • PreVietnam - Kennedy Assassination

    PreVietnam - Kennedy Assassination

    Letting the youngest man elected president also be the youngest president to die.
  • Vietnam - Gulf of Tonkin

    Vietnam - Gulf of Tonkin

    The US says North Vietnamese patrol boats fire on two US Navy destroyers.
  • Vietnam - Rolling Thunder

    Vietnam - Rolling Thunder

    The first bombing raids of Rolling Thunder are flown.
  • Vietnam - Battle of La Drang

    Vietnam - Battle of La Drang

    First major engagement between regular U.S. Army forces and the People's Army of Vietnam.
  • Vietnam - Tet Offensive

    Vietnam - Tet Offensive

    One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the VC.
  • Vietnam - My Lai Massacre

    Vietnam - My Lai Massacre

    The Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
  • Vietnam - Hamburger Hill

    Vietnam - Hamburger Hill

    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.
  • Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh

    Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh

    Communist revolutionary leader dies at 79.
  • Vietnam - Kent State Shooting

    Vietnam - Kent State Shooting

    The shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard.
  • Persian Gulf - Flight 655

    Persian Gulf - Flight 655

    An Iranian Commercial flight is shot down by U.S. forces on Persian soil in result of an incorrect call.
  • Persian Gulf - Saddam Hussein Orders Kuwait Invasion

    Persian Gulf - Saddam Hussein Orders Kuwait Invasion

    Hussein orders to invade the neighboring country Kuwait.
  • Persian Gulf - All Necessary Needs

    Persian Gulf - All Necessary Needs

    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.
  • Persian Gulf - Saddam Refuses To Withdraw

    Persian Gulf - Saddam Refuses To Withdraw

    Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait.
  • Persian Gulf - Operation Desert Storm Begins

    Persian Gulf - Operation Desert Storm Begins

    Led by Norman Schwarzkopf.
  • Persian Gulf - Operation Desert Sabre

    Persian Gulf - Operation Desert Sabre

    Troops headed from northeastern Saudi Arabia into Kuwait and southern Iraq.
  • Bosnia - Independence from Yugoslavia

    Bosnia - Independence from Yugoslavia

    Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. Begins civil war.
  • Bosnia - Slovenia and Croatia Seek Independence

    Bosnia - Slovenia and Croatia Seek Independence

    Declare their independence from Yugoslavia - Begins Civil War
  • Somalia - Operation Restore Hope

    Somalia - Operation Restore Hope

    38.000 troops from 23 countries ans reps from 49 humanitarian groups.
  • Somalia - Operation Provide Relief

    Somalia - Operation Provide Relief

  • Somalia - First US Forces Arrive

    Somalia - First US Forces Arrive

    To protect the US food airlift, the first American forces arrived.
  • Somalia - Italy Sends Reinforcements

    Somalia - Italy Sends Reinforcements

    Italy sent 2,500 combat troops to Somalia as part of the US-sponsored multinational force.
  • Somalia - Battle of Mogadishu

    Somalia - Battle of Mogadishu

    Battle between US troops and Somalian militiamen.
  • Bosnia - Sarajevo Attacks

    Bosnia - Sarajevo Attacks

    68 killed 200 more wounded
  • Bosnia - Serbs Sieze Srebrenica

    Bosnia - Serbs Sieze Srebrenica

    An estimated 8,000 Srebrenican men and boys are killed.
  • Bosnia - Military Effectiveness

    Bosnia - Military Effectiveness

    Massive NATO bombing forces.
  • Bosnia - Milosevic Talks Peace

    Bosnia - Milosevic Talks Peace

    At the Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
  • Korea - Peace Talks Begin

    Korea - Peace Talks Begin

    Peace talks between Koreas
  • Somalia - UN Resolution 751

    Somalia - UN Resolution 751

    Authorizes humanitarian relief efforts.