Modern World History

  • First Gulf War

    First Gulf War
    The Gulf War , code named Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
  • World Trade Center Bombing

    World Trade Center Bombing
    The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
  • Oklahoma City Bombing

    Oklahoma City Bombing
    The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
  • United States Involvement in Serbia

    United States Involvement in Serbia
    The Serbs, led by Slobodan Milosevic, had decided on a campaign of ethnic cleansing to rid Kosovo of all Albanian Muslims. By 1998, the US and NATO stepped in to stop the genocide. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is most commonly known as Serbia.
  • Attack on USS Cole

    Attack on USS Cole
    The USS Cole bombing was a terrorist attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda on the United States. They attacked the two World Trade centers, the Pentagon and tried to crash one into the white house but brave American citizens brought it down in a field in Pennsylvania.
  • Invasion of Afghanistan

    Invasion of Afghanistan
    The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the September 11 attacks in late 2001, supported by close allies. The conflict is also known as the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Its public aims were to dismantle Al-Qaeda, and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power.
  • Invasion of Iraq

    Invasion of Iraq
    The invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the Iraq War, which the United States dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom.
  • The Las Vegas Shooting

    The Las Vegas Shooting
    The 2017 Las Vegas shooting occurred on the night of Sunday, October 1, 2017 when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 851 injured.
  • Florida School Shooting

    Florida School Shooting
    On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Also it killed 17 and injured dozens,