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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The first major event and what triggard the beninning of WWI -
Austrian-Hungarian Empire Declares war on Serbia
The begginging of WWI and first countries to declare war -
US declares war
Almost as the war is over the USA is forced to enter that war -
WW1 is offiacially over
the end of the first worl war but the problems are not over. -
Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany
This marks the begining of the 3rd reinch of Germany. This will last until his death in 1945. -
Germany passes laws discriminating Jews
Hitler right away starts to dicriminate Jews and convinces the Germans that the Jews are the bad guys. -
Japan invades China
Japan invaeds china and starts a big coflict for the pacific theater -
Hitler invades Poland
After invading a number of other countries such as, Czechoslovakia and Austria, the UK and Frnace did nothing, then Hitler invaded Poland and the UK and France were forced into action. Making the beginning of the second world war -
Germany and italy declares war on the USA
The war for the USA offically begines -
V-E day
Victory in Eroupe as the Germans surrender to the allies -
Atomic bomb dropped on Japan
The first atomic bomb was dropped and was devisating. Worse than anyone could have imagined -
V-J day
Victory for the allies in the Pacific theater on this day -
China Falls to Communism
After Mao's victory China had became a Communist nation and became People Republic of China. -
North Korea attackes across the 38th parrllel
North Korea invades the 38th parallel and begins the Korean War. -
USA Marines land on Inchon
They got to Korea and launched an attach on the north koreans -
China attacks
Around 300,000 China Soilders attack Souht Korean and USA polsitions -
Both sides agree on a cease-fire
This is still in affect today, threre still hasnt been any winner and both sides get into fights and no resolution has been found -
Operation Rolling Thunder
This was the use of bombs all over the Ho Chi Min trail. We used 7 milllion tons of bombs during the Vietnam war. This was far more than anyother war up until that time period, -
Tet Offensive
This was a holiday for the Vietnam people. It was supposed to be a time of peace and no fighting during this time. How ever the north attacted hundreds of cities anyway. We responed and eneded up "winning" the battle. This was a major turing point in the war, and not in a good way. -
Mai lai massacre
This happened in South Vietnam when US troops went in and opened fire and killed almost an entire villege of unarmed civilians -
Nixon Becomes Preident, Starts Vietnamization
Nixon promised to get us out of the war as soon as possible. He did this with Vietnamization, this is the training of South Vietnam troops to get them strong enough to fight on their own so we could get out of the war -
Hamburger Hill
This was named Hamburger hill because the men who saw it said it looked like a meat grinder with just dead people every where covered in blood. -
Woodsctock
This was a music event held in bethal NY. It was a giant succses amd had around 500,000 people attend. It was a time if peace, drugs, music. -
Kent State Shooting
Students and other upset Americans were protesting the war when the National Guard was called in and then they opened fire on the crowd and 4 people were killed. -
Jackson State Shooting
2 Protestors at a College in Mississippi were shot and killed. They were proesting the war and us bombing Cambodia. This occured only days after the Kent State shooting -
Last US Soldiers leave Vietnam
After years and years of the American people asking for us to get out of Vietnam we finally do. The government thought that we have trained the south to fight on their own with our our help -
President Nixon Resigns
After the Watergate Scandel Nixon resigns from Office and his vice preident, Ford takes over as Preident -
Fall of Saigon
After US troops left the North Invaded Saigon and took it over and renamed it to Ho Chi Min City. -
Suddam Hussein Invades Kuwait
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Operation Death Storm cease fire
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UN askes Iraq to leave Kuwait
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Date UN gives Iraq to withdraw trrops from Kuwait
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Operation Desert Storm Begins
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Operation Desert Sabre beins
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Solvania and Croatia delare war on Yugoslavia
Starts a cilvil war
Solvania wins its battle with Milosevic
Milosevc now focuses on Croacia
After fall of the city of Vukovar is the firdt mass executions of Croats -
Reconized Bosnia Independence
"Ethnic Cleaning " -
UN Resolutions 751
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Operation Restore Relief
wants to avoid using the military in these humintarians efforts -
operation resstore hope
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US marines and navy seals arrive in Mogadishu
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Aidid starts to attack soldiers
24 Pakistani killes 44 wounded -
Fighting in Mogadishu
Dozens of usa trroops killed or wounded -
Fighting in Mogadishu continues
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Sarajevo Attacked
68 killed, 200 more wounded -
Military effectiveness takes hold
massive NATO bombing forces -
Milosevic is ready to talk peace
agreed to democratic elections
two main portions, Bosnia Serb Republic and Muslim-Croat Federation
War criminals be handed over, 30 men were prosecuted for war crimes
