World History Event

By Deffri
  • 2920 BCE

    Nile Shape Ancient Egypt

    Nile Shape Ancient Egypt
    Each year, the river flooded the land around it. This caused silt deposits to develop and made the land fertile for agriculture. Wheat and papyrus were important crops in ancient Egypt. Agriculturas life in Egypt was dependent on the Nile River because much of Egypt was desert. Every year, heavy summer rain the the Ethiopian highlands, sent a torrent of water that overflowed the banks of the Nile.

  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a socialist federation in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.

  • WW2

    WW2
    World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I.

  • Rwandan Genocide

    Rwandan Genocide
    The “Rwandan Genocide” refers to the 1994 mass slaughter in Rwanda of the ethnic Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu peoples. The killings began in early April of 1994, and continued for approximately 100 days until the “Hutu Power” movement's defeat in mid-July.

  • 9/11

    9/11
    On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.