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WWI
Archduke Ferdinand assassinated -
WWI
Wilson wins presidential election -
WWI
Herbert Hoover sets off to ration food -
WWI
President Wilson states his 14 points -
WWI
The war is over -
WWI
Treaty of Versailles signed -
Europe/WWII
the first concentration camp was opened outside of Berlin -
Europe WWll
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany -
Europe WWll
United states proclaims its neutrality -
WWI
United States government declares its neutral in the European conflict -
Europe WWll
Assassination attempts on Hitler fail -
Europe WWll
Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -
Europe WWll
France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany -
Europe WWll
German U-boats attack merchant ships -
Pacific/WWII
Attack on pearl harbor -
WWII Pacific
Hong Kong surrenders -
WWII pacific
Singapore surrenders. British defeat -
Pacific/WWII
General MacArthur leaves Corregidor and is flown to Australia. General Jonathan Wainwright becomes the new U.S. commander. -
WWII Pacific
Americans land on Luzon Islands. Philippians -
Bosnia
Created after World War II break up of Yugoslavia. Josip Tito reunified Yugoslavia. -
Leading to Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Creates Provisional Government: Following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces, Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government. Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh. He also declares independence of Vietnam -
Korea
Soviet forces complete their occupation of northern Korea, halting their southward advance through the country exactly at the 38th parallel, as agreed at the Potsdam Conference. The Soviets will wait patently for several weeks as the Americans hastily organize their own occupation of southern Korea. -
Leading to Vietnam
French and Vietminh Reach Accord. France recognizes Vietnam as a "free state" within the French Union. French troops replace Chinese in the North. Negotiations Between French and Vietminh Breakdown. Indochina War Begins -
Leading to Vietnam
French General Etienne Valluy attempts, and fails, to wipe out the Vietminh in one stroke. -
Korea
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung goes to Moscow to ask Soviet leader Josef Stalin's permission to invade South Korea and begin the Korean War. Stalin gives the green light because he believes the United States has little interest in Korea. -
Korea
North Korea invades South Korea -
Korea
North Korean capital now in UN control -
Korea
Truman relieves Macarthur of command -
Korea
Negotiation begins at Panmunjon the talk goes on into 1953 -
Leading to Vietnam
Battle of Dienbienphu Begins: A force of 40,000 heavily armed Vietminh lay seige to the French garrison at Dienbienphu. Using Chinese artillery to shell the airstrip, the Vietminh make it impossible for French supplies to arrive -
Leading to Vietnam
Geneva Convention Agreements Announced, Vietminh General Ta Quang Buu and French General Henri Delteil sign the Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam. As part of the agreement, a demarcation line is drawn at the 17th parallel which will divide Vietnam until nationwide elections are held in 1956. The United States does not accept the agreement, neither does the government of Bao Dai. -
Vietnam
North Vietnam forms Group 559 to begin infiltrating cadres and weapons into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Trail will become a strategic target for future military attacks -
Vietnam
Major Dale R. Buis and Master Sargeant Chester M. Ovnand become the first Americans to die in the Vietnam War when guerillas strike at Bienhoa -
Vietnam
The first conventional battle of the Vietnam war takes place as American forces clash with North Vietnamese units in the Ia Drang Valley. The US 1st Air Cavalry Division employs its newly enhanced technique of aerial reconnaissance to finally defeat the NVA, heavy casualties are reported on both sides -
Tet Offensive/ Vietnam
70,000 vietnamese and vietcong forces launched the tet offensive, series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South vietnam -
Mi Lai Massacure/ Vietnam
March 16, 1968 soldiers of charlie company went on a search and destroy mission. -
Vietnam
period of debate and discussion, North Vietnamese and American negotiators agree on a location and start date of peace talks. -
Hamburger Hill/ Vietnam
Soldiers said it was a human meat grinder, 10 attempts to take the hill and secured it on May 20th, abandoned the hill on June 5th -
Woodstock/ Vietnam
A four day festival about music, drugs and sex created by four guys to help raise money for a recording studio -
Kent State University/ Vietnam
4 kids killed at the Kent state university, they where protesting about the war -
Operation Lam Son 719/ Vietnam
South Vietnamese army forces invade Southern Laos -
Operation desert Storm/ Persian Gulf
Hussein delivers a speech and he accuses Kuwait of taking crude oil, demands their foreign debt be taken care of, conspiracy to keep oil prices low, says Kuwait is not a "real" country -
Desert storm begins/ Persian Gulf
Operation desert storm begins, Norman Schwarzkopf used stealth bombers, cruise missiles, smart bombs and night bombing equipment -
Operation Dessert Shield/ Persian Gulf
Iraq had 300,000 troops in Kuwait. Hussein declares Holy War. United Nations gives them Until January 15, 1991 to withdraw. -
Desert storm attack/ Persian Gulf
It was 42 days of attack, February 28th was cease fire -
Somalia
An ongoing civil war. In 1991 the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre is forced to flee when the capital of Mogadishu is captured -
Independence/ Persian Gulf
Solvenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia, it begins a civil war. Solvenia wins it's battle with Milosevic, now Milosevic focuses on Croatia. -
Bosnia
The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia, passed a referendum of independence on February 29, 1992 -
Somalia
350, 000 Somalis die of disease, starvation, or civil war. President George H.W. Bush orders emergency airlifts of food and supplies to Somalia -
Persian Gulf War
One day before former President George Bush was to arrive in Kuwait, 14 arrests made for plotting to assassinate him; Washington says plot organized by Iraqi intelligence. -
Somalia
Somali rebels shoot down two U.S. helicopters, resulting in the death of 18 U.S. Army Rangers and one Malaysian man. A heated battle ensues and hundreds of Somali civilians are killed. -
Bosnia
Majority of the country is Muslim. Milosevic attacks Sarajevo which is the capital city. Sarajevo attacks and kills 68 and 200 more wounded. -
Somalia
The U.S. formally ends the mission to Somalia, which has cost $1.7 billion dollars and left 43 U.S. soldiers dead and another 153 wounded -
William Clinton/ Bosnia
He promises to end "ethnic cleansing" Muslim safe havens are created, they got attacked. -
Peace Bosnia
Milosevic wants to talk about peace. Wright Patterson Air Force Base, he agreed to: Democratic elections, Muslim-Croat Federation, war criminals be handed over for prosecution, 30 men where prosecuted for war crimes. -
United States attempts to end genocide Bosnia
The republic of Bosnia- Heregovina has three main ethinc groups in conflict: Serbs, Croats, Muslims. It ends with a genocide committed by Serbs against Muslims in Bosnia. -
Somalia
Somalis suffer heavily under Mohamed Farah Aideed’s reign and from subsequent fighting among warlords. Hussein Farah Aideed takes over after his father’s assassination. -
Somalia
Ethiopian forces invade and capture the regional capital of Garba Harre, which lies 250 miles northwest of Mogadishu, in order to try to suppress fighting among rebel groups.
