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God created the universe out of nothing. He created plants, animals, the sea, etc. He created everything! Creationists think that Creation happened ~3966 B.C. -
Noah gets the message from God and begins to build the ark according to what God said. Noah gets laughed at by all the other people in his town, but Noah didn't care, he just wanted to listen to what God told him to do, which is why God chose Noah! -
The Flood comes, and Noah and his family (along with 2 of every kind of animal) are safely shut in the ark. The rain comes down for 40 days and 40 nights. -
People are told to scatter across the earth and be fruitful, but they don't want to leave their comfort zone, so they decide to stay where they are and build a tower as tall as heaven so God will honor them. But God confuses their languages so they can't work together. -
Pharaoh Pepi II died, and not long after, the Old Kingdom collapsed, along with Pepi's Pyramid. -
a powerful leader named Mentuhotep II became king of southern Egypt. He launched an attack on the north and eventually reunited Egypt under one rule. This began the period of the Middle Kingdom -
The first Standing army is established by pharaoh Amenemhat I. Egypt had attempted to have an army in the past, but none were strong enough until Amenemhat I. -
In 1807 B.C., the first woman to ever rule over Egypt began her reign. Sobekneferu took charge and proved that women can be just as tough as men. -
The Middle kingdom fell in 1650 B.C. The New Kingdom began with glorious purpose! -
The New Kingdom ended with the reign of Smendes I. -
Emperor Constantine will fight and move the capital of Rome to Constantinopole -
The Byzantine Empire was a very strong force, and would later conquer the Romans and many other civilizations -
As I said, Constantine built his own city, named it after himself, and moved the capital of Rome to it. -
The Renaissance was the turning point of technology and art -
Killing most of the population, the Black Death got from place to place by fleas and rats that carried the illness. -
Black Death finally comes to an end after killing from 25 to 50 million people -
The Printing Press changed the world forever! Printing books was so much easier, and this made books more accessible for people. The book that was printed the most with the printing press was the Bible! -
The Byzantines take over Rome by taking over Constantinople. -
The reformation was led by Martin Luther, who was going against the church and the law to give people copies of the Bible so they could know God's true word, and not the lies that the church was telling -
The war between China and Britain for control of Chinese land and trade. -
After years of fighting, the war is won by Great Britain -
Britain, not satisfied, came back for more -
The Opium Wars come to an end with another Great Britain victory -
Adolf Hitler moves from his home in Austria to Germany after being rejected from Art School -
The start of a tragic, destructive, awful war that would lead the way for all other major wars to come. -
The US swore they wouldn't join the war, but a little over a year before it ended they joined the Allies, or France and Britain. -
The end of what felt like an eternity of fighting, and peace came to the world. Or so we thought. -
Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which forced them to admit that they had started the war, pay millions of dollars for damage, and limit their military to 100,000 men which led to the beginning of World War II -
As World War II got crazier and more widespread, the Spanish Civil War had come to an end. -
This led to the eventual split of Poland between Germany and Russia. More specifically, the Soviets. -
After gaining the trust of the people of Germany, and signing many non-aggression pacts with many countries including Poland, Hitler declared war on Poland and immediately started bombing and attacking with brutal force. -
The United States didn't want to get involved in the war, having had many losses still impacting them from World War I, they wanted to stay out of it this time around. -
as a compromise, they divide up the land between them. -
after the invasion of Poland, the Nazis decide to take back all the land they lost due to the Treaty of Versailles and much more. They invaded (in order) Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece.
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This was a peace treaty that Germany used to fool bigger countries. They had signed one with Poland, and the day after signing one with France, Bombed Poland ruthlessly, giving France the idea of what was coming their way. -
the Tripartite (Axis) Pact was to help combat the Allies, but the Tripartite failed in the end to defeat the Allies. -
Fighting the Nazis became the 2nd World War, and the US joined the Allies once again to combat Germany. -
The Lend-Lease Act had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality. -
Yugoslavia, a very small, vulnerable country had no choice but to surrender to the Nazis or have their country destroyed. -
Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations. He didn't want to help them out while they were fighting against them. -
This eventually led to the United States officially joining the fight with the Allies once more. -
Nazis started murdering Jews with poisonous gas. a very long, and drawn-out death for the poor Jews was what the Nazis wanted. -
This was a quick invasion of Singapore but paid off well for Japan.
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Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific theater. what an honor it is. -
It begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths. -
First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps go to the Treblinka extermination camp. Everyone who was sent to these camps was killed in some form or fashion and honestly were relieved that tey didn't have to suffer any more after their long, and painful deaths. -
U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal. This ends up being a very long, bloody few months of battle. -
After many bloody months of fighting with the U.S., the Japanese Emperor Hirohito give his troops permission to withdraw. -
the fight at Stalingrad was Hitler's first defeat. it gave people a glimmer of hope that the Nazis could be taken down. -
Allies take over Tunisia in a welcome victory -
After the invasion of Poland, they got rid of all of the Jews' houses and put them in concentration camps to work or be sent to extermination camps eventually. -
The D-Day landings were on the Northern Coast of France and were crucial to the eventual liberation of Europe from Nazi control -
After seeing their empire fall, Hitler, along with the other Nazi Generals and their families all committed suicide. Everyone in Germany rejoiced as Hitler, the man killing their friends for 1 tiny mistake, was dead. -
This marked the start of the very steep decline of Nazi Germany. People began to look on with hope, overjoyed that this terrible reign was coming to an end. -
After glorious success in an empire Hitler predicted would last 1000 years, just 10 years after the Nazis rose to power, they fell. -
The United Nations was born to help prevent wars from breaking out in the future. Lot of good that did. -
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union fell, all of the Russian Satellite States became their own countries, and Russia wasn't as frightening -
The United States was the only one with Atomic weapons initially, but in 1949 Russia dropped an Atomic Bomb, and the arms race began. They were trying to make the most giant, most intimidating bomb to scare the other side away. -
Edward Teller, Stanislaw M. Ulam, and other American scientists developed the first hydrogen bomb -
During the Cold War, there was a race between Russia and the U.S. to see who would get to space first. Russia was the first in space, however, the United States was the first on the moon. -
The Berlin Wall, which separated communist East Germany from West Germany fell. East Germany leaders tried to calm protestors by loosening the borders and making travel easier.