Modern World Timeline

By 2019rstyree

  • U.S. involvement in serbia

    U.S. involvement in serbia
    The Serbs, led by Slobodan Milosevic, had decided on a campaign of ethnic cleansing & endash; to rid Kosovo of all Albanian Muslims. By 1998, the US and NATO stepped in to stop the genocide.

  • Gulf War

    Gulf War
    The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia

  • 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, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.

  • attack on the uss cole

    attack on the uss cole
    The USS Cole bombing was a terrorist attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor

  • invasion of afganistan

    invasion of afganistan
    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.

  • 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 on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

  • invasion of iraq

    invasion of iraq
    The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signalled the start of the Iraq War, which the United States dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom.