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A movement that established a parliament and constitutional monarchy in Iran, deposing Qajar dynasty.
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Reza Shah overthrew the Qajar dynasty and established the Pahlavi dynasty, beginning of a period of modernization and centralization.
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British and Soviet forces occupied Iran during World War ll to secure supply lines, forcing Reza Shah to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. -
Under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the Iranian parliament voted to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a move that led to international sanctions and a power struggle with the Shah. -
The CIA and MI6 helped engineer a coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh, restoring the Shah's power and ushering in two decades of autocratic rule with U.S. support. -
There was no specific location to where it started. -
Allegedly North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers. -
U.S dropped millions of tons of bombs on North Vietnam. -
The first official U.S. troops in Da Nang. 3,500 Marines. -
The Viet Cong and North Vietnam launched surprise attacks on South Vietnamese. -
U.S. soldiers killed unarmed Vietnamese civilians in My Lai. -
U.S and South Vietnamese won the Tet Offensive. -
Uncle Ho died from a heart attack. -
The Shah launched a series of modernization and development programs, including land reform, expanded education, women's suffrage, which expanded women's rights. -
U.S agreed to stop sending troops to Vietnam and started to withdrawn troops from Vietnam. -
The S-21 prisoners were forced to work in the fields, most of them were murdered for stealing food. -
A former high school was turned into a prison that had 14,000 to 20,000 prisoners. -
When the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia and started the "Year Zero". -
The Khmer Rouge forced everyone to move to the countryside. -
Pol Pot's paranoia led him to let lots of purges happen to anyone who he thought was "traitor" and killed or tortured their families.
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When the citizens were in the countryside, they were forced to work on farms. -
North Vietnam took over the capital of South Vietnam and won the war. -
The Vietnamese invaded Cambodia to raid Khmer Rouge -
After the Vietnamese successfully invaded and captured Phnom Penh the genocide had finally came to an end. -
The Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh kicked Pol Pot out of power. -
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