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After a string of events Germany has casued us to join the war
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With the declaration of war to the Treaty of Versailles Germany never stood a chance
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A German U-boat sinks the Britsih luxury liner Lusitania and kills many on board
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Germany launched an offensive in hopes of a quick Allied defeat.
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Germany surrenders and the war was the most destructive to date
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Germany signs the treaty and sets the stage for another war.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor on the island of Hawaii
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The first air raid on Japan
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US troops land on the beaches of Normandy and begin their attack
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Germans push back the front line causing a bulge looking mass on maps
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Victory in Europe
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The Little Boy bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan the firat atomics bomb dropped by the US
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The US then drops the atomic bomb Fat Man on the Japanese town of Nagasaki
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Victory over Japan surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri
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Korea was divided at the 38th Parallel and on this day 75,000 North Korean troops crossed the border into South Korea
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Truman orders air and naval support for South Korea & calls for UN intervention
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The UN and its troops capture Pyongyang
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Harry Truman fires MacArthur after he said they should bomb
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The fighting ends after an armistice is signed
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Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown
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First declaration of war
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From the beginning with the declaration of war in 1964 to the fall of Saigon in 1975 this marked the era
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The North Vietnamese attack on a cease fire for the New Lunar Year know as Tet
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Massaacre when helpless villagers were killed by US soldiers
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They start to remove troops from battle and start replacing them with South Vietnamese
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A protest at Kent State turns after police fire shots and one is left dead.
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Allowed 18 year olds to vote since they were old enough to go off and fight why should they not be able to vote
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The NVA release the POWs that they had trapped in their territory
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The last of the US soldiers leave Vietnam
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Richard Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal leaving Gerald Ford with all of his problems
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Saigon Falls to the North Vietnamese marking the end of the Vietnam war the city of Saigon is later renamed Ho Chi Minh City
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In the late 1908's they used Nationalism and religious hatred to gain power
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Saddam Hussein ivnades Kuwait in early 1990
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After 42 days of attacks a cease fire
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The beginnign of Operation Desert Storm
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The UN asks for Iraqi troops to withdarwl from Kuwait
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UN gave Saddam Hussein til this day to withdrawl from Kuwait
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Saddam did not cooperate so the attack begins being led by Norman Schwarzkopf
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The ground portion of the attack starts and they storm Kuwait and the southern part of Iraq
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Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia which begins a civil war
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Serbaians systematically roundend up Muslims and killed them by mass shootings, raped females, re-population of cities. And they called it ethnic cleansing
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The UN authorized humanitarian efforts in Somalia
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U.S Marines and Navy Seals arrive in Mogadishu to help secure the area
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Aidid gets bold and starts to attack soldiers 24 Pakistani killed and 44 wounded the skirmishes continue until July 12 1993
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lasted from october 3-4 1993
United States 19 killed 73 injured
Somalia 315-2000 killed and injured
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Sarajevo is attacked and 68 killed and 200 or more wounded and an international call for help was sent out
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Genocide of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. An estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed,constituting as much as 70% of the Tutsi and 20% of Rwanda's total population
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Military effectiveness takes hold and NATO starts bombing
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Bosnian Serbs and Muslim- Croat are ready for peace
30 men were prosecuted for war crimes
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The weapon inspectors return to Iraq but they do not cooperate
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Bush gives Saddam and ultimatum step down or be removed
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Persain Gulf War II begins (Iraq Wars)
