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SINKING THE LUISTANNIA - A BRIISH PASSENGER SHIP SUNK BY GEMAN U-BOATS
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Zimmermann note - was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.
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Zimmermann Note :telegram written by german foreign minister zimmermann proposing an alliance between germany and mexico against US in WWI
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selective SERVICE ACT- ATHORIZE THE DRAFT.PESIDENT WILSON SAID THERE WAS NOOTER OPION SO HE SIGNED THE LAW
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Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, which is a peace treaty between Russia and the Central Powers.
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BATTLE OF CANTGNY- FIRSTMAJOR AMERICAN OFFENSIVE WAR . AMEICANS FOUGT WISEY AND WENT ON TO FIGHT GERMAN FORCS
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treaty of versailles-June 28 1919, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an en
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Battle of Britan begins, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940
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United States sign the lend lease to allow US to send supplies to england
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Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
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Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.
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attack on pearl harbor where the japense attack the us then declare war
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Battle of Stalingrad. one of the major battles of WWII. Germany fought the Soviet Union
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First U.S. aircraft carrier offensive of the war as YORKTOWN and ENTERPRISE conduct air raids on Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands.
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First U.S. carrier, the LANGLEY, is sunk by Japanese bombers.
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Turning point in the war a decisive victory for the U.S. against Japan in the Battle of Midway as squadrons of U.S. torpedo planes and dive bombers from ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and YORKTOWN attack and destroy four Japanese carriers, a cruiser, and damage another cruiser and two destroyers. U.S. loses YORKTOWN.
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D-Day invasion. surprise attack on Normandy, Germany was defeated here
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Battle of the Bulge. allies won the battle here at the end of the war
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Germany surrenders
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North Korea and South Korea divided into two after World War II. North Korea was communist and South was anti-communist and its the 38th parallel
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North Korea invades South Korea. With permission from Russia, North Korea invades South Korea and continues on to the capital of Seoul. South Korea does not have a strong enough army to stop it.
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United States troops reach the capital of North Korea. U.S. troops push their way into Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Soldiers believe that the war will be over soon and start to take bets on what day the war will officially end.
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Peace talks begin.
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General Douglas MacArthur is fired.
After General MacArthur publicly disagrees with President Truman about whether or not to bomb China, MacArthur is fired. Truman believed that bombing China would have led to a much bigger war. -
Dwight Eisenhower is elected president. During his campaign, Eisenhower said he would end the war in Korea.
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the domino theory that if one neighboring country went to communism the neighboring countries would follow
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Ngo Dinh Diem regime is overthrown
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president Ngo dinh Diem assassination in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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John F, Kennedy assassination
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Tet Offensive
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My Lai Massaacre
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Martin Luther King Jr assassinated
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Vietnamization -nixons plan to train south Vietnamese to get out of war
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kent state shooting
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26th amendment ratified - 18 year olds can vote
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North Vietnam releases POW'S (Prisoners of War)
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last US soldier leaves Vietnam
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Richard nixon resigns from the office of the Presidnet
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saigon Falls
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Serbian Slobodian Melosevic :
used nationalism and religious hatred to gain power
created more tensions between Serbs and Musliums in Kosovo -
the concern for the spread of communism such as the berlin wall
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GROUND ATTACK THAT LASTED 4 DAYS.
STORM KUWAIT AND THE SOUTHERN PART OF IRAQ -
PREVENT POSSIBLE ATTACK ON SAUDI ARABIA, HUSSEIN DECLARED (HOLY WAR) JIHAD, CREATED PEACE TREATY WITH IRAN TO GET MILITARY TO FULL STRENGTH.
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LASTED 42 DAYS OF ATTACK, FEBRUARY 28TH A CEASE FIRE. WHICH LEAD TO IRAQ IN WAR, WANTED FOREIGN DEBT TO BE TAKEN CARE OF, ACCUSES KUWAIT OF TAKING CRUDE OIL, KUWAIT SAYS IS NOT A "REAL" CPOUNTRY
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RECOGNINZE KUWAIT
GET RID OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
IRAQ: 8,000-10,000 KILLED
COALITION: 300 KILLED -
Solvenia adn Croatia declare independent from Yugoslavia - begins civil war
solvenia wins battle
milosevic focuses on croatia -
Recognized Bosnia independence
mostly muslium country (32% Serbs)
milosevic responded by attacking sarajevo (capital City)
Bosnian musliums out gunned
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authorizes humanitarian relief efforts
establishes UN operation in Somalia (UNOSOM)
-sort out the confusion among groups in the region to help get supplies where they r suppose to be
US will airlift supplies in to pass congested areas and looted -
want to avoid using the military in these humanitarian efforts
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US Marines and Navy Seals arrived in Mogadishu to help secure the area
successful and cooperative -
Aided gets bold and starts to attack soldiers
24 pakistans killed
44 wounded -
US attacks aide compound byhelicopter upset by attack,4 westen journalir killed displayed for all to see
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Dozens of US troops were killed or wounded in fighting a capital city of Mogadishu because somalia is fighting famine and civil war and somalians are being starved to death.
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Sarajevo attacked killed 68, wounded 200
international call for help
images all over the place -
Military effectiveness take hold.
Massive NATO bombing forces -
Milosevic is ready to talk peace
Wright Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio):
agreed to : democratic elections, 2 main portions (Bosnia Serb republic, Muslium-Croat Federation)
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clinton signed iraq Liberation Act
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Bush gives Hussein ultimatum - to step down or be removed
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Persian Gulf War II Begins (Iraq War )
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
