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Antietam
After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army General George McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded, and missing on both sides combined. -
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Mexian Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. -
Tanenburg
The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army. -
Russian Revolt
The Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. In the October Revolution, the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd. The Bolsheviks appointed themselves as leaders afterwards. -
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Influenza Pandemic
The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. It infected 500 million people across the world. -
World War 2 begins
Germany invades Poland, using Hitler's new strategy called Blitzkrieg. This event officially starts World War 2. Poland was also attacked from its eastern side, when the USSR comes into the war on the German's side. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British–American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign. The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and United Kingdom to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. It would also open up the Mediterranean Sea, to make operations in the future easier -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Assassination of Kennedy
John Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation in 1963–64 concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.
