History Timline

  • Libya and Gaddafi

    An American Airplane flying over Scotland was bombed and all 259 passengers were killed, the bomb was traced back to two Libyan men and Gaddafi refused to send them to the US for trial
  • Civil War in Africa

    U.N. came in and launched Operation Restore Hope, which was to help the famine in Somalia
  • Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

    Israel and the PLO officially recognized each other, but eventually this peace contract was setback when a young Israeli extremist assassinated Rabin, because he did not agree with the contract
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Ethnic fighting among Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes left hella people dead (150,00 people), but the UN sent peacekeepers to the area in attempt to stop the fighting... but that failed and the fighting continued. Later the US eventually bombed the Bosnian Serbs in hopes to end fighting.
  • South Africa

    Apartheid came to an end, all races were able to vote and Nelson Mandela became president
  • Armenia/Azerbaijan

    Christians in Armenia fought with the neighboring Muslims in Azerbaijan (around 1994)
  • War in Kosovo

    Residents of Kosovo demanded independence, NATO launched air strikes on Serbia, and eventually ended in a peace agreement