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Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
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Woodrow Wilson declares the United States Neutral
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Sinking of the Lusitania caused by Germany which killed over a thousand civilians without warning.
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The Zimmerman note, a letter that tried to persuade Mexico to attack the US and in return it would get the land it lost.
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The United States declares war on Germany
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President Woodrow Wilson issues his "Fourteen Points" for peace and an end to the war.
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The Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany and World War I comes to an end.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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The United States, and Britain declare war on Japan
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Hitler declares war on the United States
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain
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First All-American air attack in Europe
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Operation Torch begins (the invasion of North Africa)
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany
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U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge
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After World War II, Korea is divided into communist North Korea and anti-communist South Korea at a spot called the 38th parallel. Russia controls North Korea and the U.S. controls South Korea.
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VE Day
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Atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan
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Atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Russian troops enter Korea
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
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NATO Pact signed
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With permission from Russia, North Korea invades South Korea and continues on to the capital of Seoul. South Korea does not have a strong enough army to stop it.
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President Harry Truman sends U.S. troops to Korea. The U.S. and other countries in the United Nations join the war because they want to stop communism from spreading to South Korea.
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General Douglas MacArthur leads an invasion into South Korea at the city of Inchon. From there, the United Nations troops go to Seoul and take it back from North Korea.
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John F. Kennedy wins the presidency.
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Hanoi forms National Liberation Front for South Vietnam. Diem government dubs them "Vietcong."
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US Air Force begins using Agent Orange
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Assassination of J. F. K. leaves the problem of Vietnam in Lyndon Johnson's hands.
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An incident in the Gulf of Tonkin takes place allowing Lyndon to declare war with Vietnam.
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US President Lyndon Johnson meets with South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his military advisors in Honolulu. Johnson promises to continue to help South Vietnam fend off aggression from the North, but adds that the US will be monitoring South Vietnam's efforts to expand democracy and improve economic conditions for its citizens.
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The first American combat troops, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, arrive in Vietnam to defend the US airfield at Danang.
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The practice of protesting US policy in Vietnam by holding "teach-ins" at colleges and universities becomes widespread.
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The first conventional battle of the Vietnam war takes place as American forces clash with North Vietnamese units in the Ia Drang Valley.
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President Lyndon Johnson stuns the nation and announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election.
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My Lai Massacre happened, when it surfaced the american public was shocked and turned against the war even more.
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A legacy of deception, concerning US policy in Vietnam, on the part of the military and the executive branch is revealed as the New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers. The Nixon administration, eager to stop leaks of what they consider sensitive information, appeals to the Supreme Court to halt the publication. The Court decides in favor the Times and allows continued publication.
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President Nixon orders troop strength reduced by seventy thousand.
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A cease-fire agreement that, in the words of Richard Nixon, "brings peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia," is signed in Paris by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.
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South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh delivers an unconditional surrender to the Communists
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Iraq accuses Kuwait of stealing oil from Rumaylah oil field on Iraq-Kuwait border and warns of military action
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Iraq invades Kuwait and takes over oil fields.U.N. condemns Iraq's invasion and demands withdrawal.
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First U.S. military forces arrive in Saudi Arabia. U.N. declares Iraqi annexation of Kuwait void.
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U.N. sets deadline for Iraqi withdrawal on January 15, 1991. Hussein rejects all U.N. resolutions.
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President Bush issues 24-hour ultimatum: Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait to avoid start of ground war.
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Coalition forces enter Kuwait City. U.S. 1st Armored Division fights battle of Medina Ridge against Iraqi Republican Guard in Iraq. President Bush declares Kuwait liberated
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Feb 29-March 1, Bosnia's Croats and Muslims vote for independence, but are boycotted by the Serbs.
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War breaks out. Persecution of the Muslims and Croats start to happen to create a Serb Republic.
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Pres. Bush ordered the Pentagon to begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia, which was suffering from severe famine.
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U.S. Marines landed in Somalia to ensure that food and medicine reached their destinations
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US forces in Somalia unleashed tank, helicopter and rocket fire on two clan camps in Mogadishu where snipers had been taking potshots at the troops
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War between Croats and Muslims break out.
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Eighteen US Rangers and Delta Force specialists died in a failed raid in Somalia and over 70 were wounded
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President Clinton ordered more troops, heavy armor and naval firepower to Somalia, but also announced he would pull out all Americans by the end of March 1994.
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U.S.-brokered agreement ends Muslim-Croat war and creates a Muslim-Croat federation.
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The last U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia were evacuated
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After NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic agree to a U.S.-brokered peace deal at Dayton, Ohio.
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Radovan Karadzic, the worlds most wanted man, is arrested for the planning and ordering the genocide.
