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Germans torpedoed the Lusitania, and it sunk within 18 minutes killing 1198 people
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After the German submarines sink 7 merchants ships, Wilson called war on Germany
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Lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918
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Germany invaded Poland.
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A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base.
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Turning point in the Pacific war came with the American naval victory in the Battle of Midway.
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The current United States president, Harry S. Truman, presents his "Truman Doctrine" and that pledges American aid and assistance to any nation that is threatened by communist rule
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies access into their parts of Berlin. Their goal was to force Western Powers to allow the Soviets to provide supplies to all of Berlin
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North Korea had the Soviet Union's help to launch a large attack in strive to get the nations to reunite
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U.S sends $15 million of military aid and assistance to France in the Indochina war.
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The 1st Marine Division encounters heavy North Korea resistance, but succeeds in taking it's objective
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The US attacks Pyongyang using aircraft trying to make Korea surrender
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Korea finally surrenders and the war comes to an end
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Vietnam is divided into 17th parallel. The North of this line is controlled by the communist Vietminh and Ho Chi Minh. The South of this line is controlled by Ngo Dinh Diem and the State of Vietnam. The U.S never agrees to this.
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U.S enters the Vietnam War.
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Kennedy beats Nixon in a close election for the presidency.
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Also known as the National Liberation Front, formed by Hanoi and use against South Vietnam.
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Diem was killed in a coup supported by the United States.
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U.S policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
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Assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas
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Ho Chi Minh Trail was a trail that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. It was used to transport equipment.
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U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout Northern Vietnam.
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Forces from the People's Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) carried out a massive artillery bombardment on the U.S. Marine garrison at Khe Sanh, located in northwest South Vietnam near the Laotian border.
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One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.70,000 North Vietnamese and VietCong forces launched Tet Offensive. It took weeks for U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to retake all of the captured cities.
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The war divided the United States into two groups.
Hawks: believed that due to the aggression of North Vietnamese it forced us into the war.
Doves: thought that the problem in Vietnam is a civil war and that the United States had no right to be in their conflicts. -
Croatia and Slovenia declare their independent from the Yugoslav Federated Republic
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Kuwait loaned Iraq billions of dollrs in the war against Iran, bu tey couldn't repay them, so Iraq invaded Kuwit.
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The UN Security Council ordered Iraq to take their troops ot of Kuwait
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This was the date when the United Nation Security Council set a deadline for Iraqi force to leave Kuwait
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U.S lead air attack hit Iraq's air defnse, communiations network, weapons plats, and oil refinerie.
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Iraq began to launch missles on Israel
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Kuwait was retaken and most of Iraq's elite Republican Guard's destroyed
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Bosnian war was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia
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Muslims and Croats in Bosnia signed an agreement creating Federation of Bosnia
