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Aug 15, 1096
1st Crusade
Date: 1096~1099
People: Christians, Muslims, Byzatine Empire (Pope Urban) and Roman Catholic.
About: Military expedition by Roman Catholic Euope to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest. -
May 10, 1145
2nd Cruade
Date: 1145~1149
People: Pope Eugene III
About: The second crusade was lunched from Europe. It was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year to the forces of Zengi. While it was the first Crusader state to be founded, it was also the first to fall. -
May 12, 1189
3rd Crusade
Date: 1189~1192
People: Jerusalem and Muslim
About: The Third Crusade was also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate goal the reconquest of Jerusalem. -
Apr 4, 1291
Massacre at Acre
Date: 1291
People: Jersalem, Musliums and Crusaders
About: One of the most important and for his battle of the time period. Capture of Jersalem made the Crusaders lost its controll of Arce to Muslims. When Arce fell, the Crusaders lose their last major strong hold of the Crusader of kingdom of Jersalem. -
May 10, 1453
Turks capture Constaninople
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About: The Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul in 1453 by defeating the Byzantine Empire. -
Arab league declares jihad on Israel
Date: 1947~1949
People: Arab and Israel
About: The Arabs not only rejected partition, but attacked Israel from all sides. On the day that Israel declared its independence, the Arab League Secretary, General Azzam Pasha declared "jihad", a holy war. He said, "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades" It is also said that they explained how they wanted to kill Jew a lot. -
Battle of Algiers
Date: 1954~62
People: France and Algian
About: This war was a conflict between France and Algian independednt movemens. Which led to the victory to the Algian who gained its indepenednt from France. This was a imposrtant war and also was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, the use of torture on both sides, and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army. -
Suez Canal incident
Date: 1954~1957
People: Egypt, Britain, France, and Israel
About: This war was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. -
1st gulf War
Date: 1980~1988
People: Iran and Iraq
About: It was a war between Iran and Iraq and it started as Iraq invaded Iran in 1980. It had long history of border disputes, going right back to when the countries were the kingdoms of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Persia (Iran). Catching Iranian forces by surprise, Iraq held the advantage early in the war. However, Iran mounted a successful counteroffensive in 1982, regaining lost ground. -
9/11
Date: September 11th, 2001
People: United State and Arab
About: 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, who was from Arab hijacked four passenger jets in September 11th. As the hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Due to the crash, At least 2,985 people died icluding the 19 terrorists. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Date: 2003~2011
People: United State and Iraq
About: Mainly, the United States was running out of oils. So, we decided to go to Iraq to get some. However, Saddam Hussein which was president of Iraq refused to give out oil to us. And that led them both to have war. -
Saladin retakes the city Jerusalem
Date: 901~1200
People: Christians and Muslims
About: Saladin, a kurdish ruler of Egypt and Syria, (Muslim) is know in the west for his opposition to the forces the Third Crusade.
