Muslim/Christian Conflicts

By Yanderson Toribio
  • Period: Dec 1, 1095 to

    1095-2011

  • Mar 1, 1096

    first crusade

    What have the crusade about?
    The crusade were a holy war againgst the muslim with the goal capturing the loly land (Jerusalam).
  • Jan 3, 1148

    2nd Crusade

  • Oct 2, 1187

    saladin retakes the city of jerusalem

    Saladin was a Muslim knight who led the retaking of the city of from the European crusaders.
  • Jan 11, 1189

    3rd Crusade

  • Sep 2, 1192

    massacre at acre

    King RIchard executed Muslims after Saladin would not give in to his demands.
  • May 29, 1453

    Turks capture Cosntantinople

    On May 29, 1453, the city fell to the Ottoman Turks, and again became the capital of a powerful state, the Ottoman Empire

  • Arab league declares jihad on lsrael

    Right after the U.N. declared Israel independent, The Arab League called for a holy war to reconquer the country

  • Suez Canal incident

    26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal, after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam. The nationalization of the Suez Canal hit British economic and military interests in the region.

  • Battle of Algiers

    Battle of AlgiersThe Battle of Algiers was a campaign of guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities in 1957. The conflict began as a series of hit-and-run attacks by the FLN against the French Police in Algiers.

  • 1 st gulf war

    The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial bombardment on 17 January 1991. This was followed by a ground assault on 23 February. This was a decisive victory for the coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory.

  • 9/'11

    The September 11 attacks, often referred to as September 11th or 9/11 (pronounced as "nine eleven"), were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.[2][3] The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both tower

  • Operation Iraqi freedom

    Operation Iraqi freedom
    a military campaign that began on March 20, 2003,[50][51] with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States under the administration of President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair.[52]
    Prior to the invasion, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom asserted that the possibility of Iraq employing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threatened their security and that of their coalition/regional allies.[53][