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1st Geneva conference
There were three other Conferences in 1906, 1929 and 1949. Human rights in wars.
In 1864, sixteen European countries and several American states attended a conference in Geneva, at the invitation of the Swiss Federal Council, on the initiative of the Geneva Committee. The diplomatic conference was held for the purpose of adopting a convention for the treatment of wounded soldiers in combat. -
Cuba war starts.
Jose Martí—poet, journalist, and leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in New York—sent written orders to Cuba to begin a military uprising against the Spanish colonizers. Thus started the second Cuban war for independence -
USA declares war to Spain
Battles in Santiago de Cuba and Cavite. Spanish Army is destroyed.
Paris Treaty: Spain recognizes the loss of Cuba, P. Rico, Philipines. The end of the Spanish Empire. -
Marocco war
Spain is defeated in Barranco del Lobo.
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Tragic Week at Barcelona
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Sarajevo attack
The chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian Army and head of the Black Hand sent Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, during his visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The other men sent to assassinate Ferdinand were Nedjelko Cabrinovic, and Trifko Grabez. World War I starts. 18 million casualties. -
World War I
Spain is neutral although divided between those who defend the Allies/ Germany. -
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Armenian genocide
1st Genocide in history. Between 1- 2 million dead people. It was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. -
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Hell at Verdun.
French vs. Germans. 250, 000 casualties. -
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Russian civil war.
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Revolutionary General Strike
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Bolchevique Triennium
Russia: peasants revolt in the south. -
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Social revolts in Barcelona
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Wilson´s dream
League of Nations: W. Wilson was the prime motivator of the League. His plan was that nations would talk and avoid wars. -
Annual disaster
More than 10,000 Spanish soldiers are killed by Maroccan Kabilas. -
Primo de Rivera´s dictatorship starts.
De Rivera witnessed a Spain that seemed to him to be in decline. In 1921, this seemingly reached a peak when the Spanish Army suffered a major defeat in Morocco at the Battle of Annual. Blame was apportioned to many groups but the king received a great deal of criticism for his poor leadership. The Cortes announced that the army would be investigated for corruption. The army, led by de Rivera, took over. Alfonso XIII sided with the army. -
2nd Republic is proclaimed in spain
The Constitution includes peace as principle of Foreign Spanish Policy. -
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Great famine
Stalin caused millions of Ukranian peasants to starve. -
Genocide
6 million Jewish are exterminated during 2nd World War. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The leader of Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, ordered Italian troops to invade Ethiopia. The Italian Fascist government had embarked upon a policy of colonial expansion in northeast Africa. Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, appealed to the League of Nations for assistance to halt Italian aggression. The League of Nations proved to be too weak to solve the conflict. -
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Japan vs China
The Japanese exterminate the Chinese at Nankin. -
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Spanish civil war
Anteroom for World War II. -
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Spanish Civil War
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Bombing at Guernica
Guernica bombing by the Condor Legion.The number of victims of the attack is disputed; The Basque government reported 1,654 people killed, although modern speculations suggests between 126 to 400 civilians died -
Spanish Civil War ends
Repression against the defeated. -
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Franco control over the country.
Francisco Franco was a Spanish army general who established his fascist government in 1936. He consolidated power after defeating the left-wing republicans in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9, placing himself in the position of dictator. -
The Atlantic Charter
The origins of United Nations. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the Nuclear Apocalypse. -
St. Francisco Charter
United Nations (UN) is born. Delegates of fifty nations met at San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945. Working on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various Governments, the Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the New International Court of Justice. The Charter was passed unanimously and signed by all the representatives. It came into force on October 24, 1945 -
India- Pakistan
The division between India and Pakistan caused several million Hindu and Muslim casualties. -
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Israel-Palestina
The endless conflict. -
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Korea war.
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Vietnam war
Napalm massacres. -
ETA (Terrorist Organisation) is born.
The organization was founded in 1959. It evolved rapidly from a group advocating traditional cultural ways to an armed separatist group. On 22 March 2006, the organization has declared a permanent ceasefire, stating it will commit herself to "to promote a democratic process in Euskal Herria [the Basque Country] ". -
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Chinese cultural revolution
30-40 million casualties. -
ETA kills Carrero Blanco
Luis Carrero Blanco was killed in a bomb attack.
He was a Spanish admiral and long-time confidant of leader Francisco Franco, one of his closest collaborators as well as chief of naval operations.Carrero Blanco himself was a monarchist, devoted to the Roman Catholic Church. -
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The Khemer Rouge Genocide
Cambodia: 1 million casualties. -
Burgos process: shootings.
Spain’s last execution occurred with the shooting of five anti-Franco terrorists in three different cities. Three of the men were shot in Madrid, all of whom had murdered policemen in 1975. Another terrorist was shot in Barcelona and the last one in Burgos.Capital punishment was effectively abolished in 1978. -
Franco dies
Transition to democracy starts. -
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Afganistan war
The end of the Soviet Empire. -
The Constitution in Spain
Spanish people are reconciled. -
1st Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
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Yugoslavian civil war
The last genocide in Europe. -
Hutus vs. Tutsis
Rwanda: 1 million casualties?
A plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. Violence began almost immediately after that. Under the cover of war, Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Governments and peoples elsewhere failed to take the steps needed to prevent it. -
2nd Gulf War.
The Irak war: The coalition mission was "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people." -
Army –peace missions
In Bosnia, Kosovo; Afganistan, Libano…
