The Evolving International System

  • WWI starts

    WWI starts
    The Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, when the archduke got killed.
  • PEACE

    PEACE
    Russia and USA signed a peace agreement
  • Surrender

    Surrender
    Germany requested an Armistice ending war
  • Versailles

    Versailles
    The treaty of Versailles is signed, this symbolizes the end of the WWI
  • WWII

    WWII
    The political takeover in of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy.
    Germany invades Polony.
  • Non-agression pact

    Non-agression pact
    Russia and Germany signed non- aggression pact.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
  • USA attacks Japan

    USA attacks Japan
    he strategic bombing of Japanese cities by the United States culminated in the only historical use of nuclear weapons in war—the destruction of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • End of WWII

    End of WWII
    Japan accept its surrender this is how formally the ending of second world war.
  • UN

    UN
    The United Nations was created after the World War II, in 1945. The purpose of the creation was influenced by two events: clear failure of League of Nations and preventing new world war
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The United States and the Soviet Union became the two super powers of the post–World War II era. Each had its ideological mission (capitalist and communism), its networks of alliances and clients, and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons.
  • NATO

    NATO
    The OTAN was created, anintergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    East Germany built the Berlin Wall separating the East from the West, this action symbolized the division of Europe, which was called as the iron curtain.
  • Cuban crisis

    Cuban crisis
    Cuban missile crisis when the Soviet Union installed medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.
  • No more Berlin Wall

    No more Berlin Wall
    The toppling of the Berlin Wall in late symbolized the end of the Cold War division of Europe.
  • End of Cold War

    End of Cold War
    Germany officially reunified, this refers to the official end of the Cold War
  • Economic difficulties

    Economic difficulties
    Some former countries had very difficult times due to the economic and financial collapse.
  • Rwanda conflict

    Rwanda conflict
    Rwanda conflict expands, even though the international community was dying of hunger.
  • 9-11-01

    9-11-01
    USA was attacked by terrorists, they destroyed the World Trade Center, killing thousands of citizens and about 60 people from other countries.