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assassination of archduke Frnz Ferdinand
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Britain declares war on Germany
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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Battle of Verdun
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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Italy enters the war.
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North Korea crosses the 38th parallel and invades South Korea
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U.S. troops invade at Inchon
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Pyongyang falls to U.N. forces
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Chinese divisions enter fighting
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Truman relieves MacArthur of command
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Vietnamese forces occupy the French command post at Dien Bien Phu and the French commander orders his troops to cease fire.
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American helicopters arrive at docks in South Vietnam along with 400 U.S. personnel, who will fly and maintain the aircraft.
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In Operation Chopper, helicopters flown by U.S. Army pilots ferry 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to sweep a NLF stronghold near Saigon.
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At the hamlet of Ap Bac, the Vietcong 514th Battalion and local guerrilla forces ambush the South Vietnamese Army's 7th division.
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On this night, South Vietnamese commandos attack two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S. destroyer Maddox, an electronic spy ship, is 123 miles south with orders to electronically simulate an air attack to draw North Vietnamese boats away from the commandos.
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The captain of the U.S.S. Maddox reports that his vessel has been fired on and that an attack is imminent.
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President Johnson authorizes Operation Rolling Thunder, a limited but long lasting bombing offensive.
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General William Westmoreland launches the first purely offensive operation by American ground forces in Vietnam, sweeping into NLF territory just northwest of Saigon
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American attacks on North Vietnam's airfields begin.
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On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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The persian gulf war started when Iraqi leader suddam hussein decided to invade the country of Kuwait.
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The United Nations Security Council called for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.
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United Nations imposes sanctions on Iraq.
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U.S.-led coalition launches air war against Iraq.
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Allied troops take control of Kuwait after 100-hour ground war.
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Cease-fire announced.
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Bosnia declares their independence
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European Union recognizes Bosnia's independence, war breaks out and Serbs lay siege on Sarajevo
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the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali submitted to the U.N. Security Council his recommendations for effecting the transition from UNITAF to UNOSOM II
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the Conference on National Reconciliation in Somalia was held.
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a U.S.-led operation was launched on what was believed to be a safe house where Aidid was hiding in Mogadishu.
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Aidid's militia detonated a remote controlled bomb against a U.S. military vehicle, killing four soldiers.
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A mortar explodes in a crowded market in Sarajevo
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Military effectiveness takes hold and Massive NATO boming forces move in
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Milosevic is raedy to talk peace and Wright Patterson Air Force Base agreed to multiple effort.
