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Battle of Fort Sumter
The battle was 34 hours straight and began when the Confederates started unloading thousands of shells at the Fort. No one was killed but the Union surrendered -
The Emancipation Proclomation
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Battle of Gettysburg
largest battle of civil war including 85,000 Union Potomac men under General George Gordon Meade, and 75,000 Confederates led by Robert E. Lee -
Lee surreneders
Took place at Appomattox Courthouse and he surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Serbian nationalist gunned down Franz and his wife Sophie -
Austrian-Hungarian Empire Declares war on Serbia
Caused because of the assassination of Franz and his wife in Sarajevo -
Battle of Tannenberg
German 8th army strikes w/ lethal force against the Russian 2nd Army -
Kaiser Abdicated
Wilhem is overthrown leading to the creation of the German Republic -
WW1 Ends
Central Powers, tired of fighting decide that they will sign an Armistice -
Japan Invades Manchuria
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Hitler Becomes Chancelor
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Fascist Italy begins he Invasion of Ethipoia
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Japan invades Manchuria
Japanese soldiers controlled manchurian railway and they claimed that the chinese sabotaged the railway -
Japan Invades China
this initiates WW2 in the Pacific -
Soviets Invade Poland from the East
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Italy enters the War
Italy then invades france the next day -
Tripartite Pact is signed
Germany Italy and Japan sign it -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor marking the start of the US involvement -
D-Day or Battle of Normandy
This was the largest Amphibious assault in american history resulting in numerous amounts of casualties in little time -
February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins
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VE Day
Victory in Europe when Germany surrenders in Berlin -
Hiroshima bombing
US bombs Hiroshima -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Harry Truman called for Japanese surrender and they refused so the U.S gained consent from the UK to bomb them -
VJ Day
Broadcast of the surrender of Japan the day before they officially surrendered -
Truman Doctrine
Declaring active role in the Civil war in Greece -
NATO becomes ratified
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Berlin Blockade ends
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McCarthy Begins his Communist hunt
After finding that there were a few Soviet Spies McCarthy began to persecute people of being communist -
First military aid shipment sent
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Truman fires McCarthur
Fired McCarthur after all the false accusings took place -
Korean War ends
war ends in an armisitce -
Vietnam war begins
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Cuba taken over by fidel castro
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military invasion of Cuba -
Use of Agent Orange begins
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JFK Assassination
Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas -
Golf of Tonkin Incident
North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin -
Battle of Ia Drang
1st major battle faught over in Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
This was the feirce attakcs on over 100 cities by Vietcong and North Vietnamese and these attacks led to a North vietnam victory -
My Lai Massacre
William Calley led the massacre what was supposed to be a search and destroy mission of a Vietcong Battalion became the mass killing of innocent lives and the event was not revealed to the people until the next year -
Water Gate Scandal
5 men were charged for breaking and entering the DNC and later they found that some of the money they took went to the CRP fund for President Nixon -
Richard Nixon elected president
Persident Johnson doesnt run and Nixon assumes presidency -
Battle at Hamburger Hill
10 day period where soldiers took over the infamous Hamburger Hill -
Jackson State
A group of kids were confronted by cops and later that night past midnght the cops opened fire killing two people just 11 days after the Kent State shootings -
U.S involvement in Vietnam ends
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All prisoners of war are released and home again
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Saddam Hussein Invades Kuwait
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U.S asks for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait
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UN ask for Iraqui withdrawal
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Operation Dessert Storm
bombing equipment was sent out to iraq because they refused to withdrawal from Kuwait -
Hussein Defies U.S orders
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Operation Provide Relief
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Operation restore hope
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Return of Weapons inspectors
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Iraq War starts
42 days of attacks and misfire leads to war -
Persian Gulf War II Begins
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Munich Agreement is signed
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement
