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The Holocaust
More information on the HolocaustThe word "Holocaust," from the Greek words "holos" (whole) and "kaustos" (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat -
Start of World War 2 (Hitler invades Poland)
Hitler invading Poland drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. -
Cold War
Link to page detailing events of cold war This wasn'tanactual war, more of an age of espionage between the U.S. and USSR. -
End of Condominium
On February 12, 1953, Britain and Egypt signed an accord ending the condominium arrangement and agreeing to grant Sudan self government within three years. The agreement also provided for a senate for the Sudan, a Council of Ministers, and a House of Representatives, elections to which was to be supervised by an international commission. The replacement of British and Egyptian officers in the Sudanese civil service by Sudanese nationals followed rapidly. -
Sudan's Independence
On December 19, 1955, the Parliament voted unanimously that the Sudan should become "a fully independent sovereign state". British and Egyptian troops left the country on January 1, 1956; the same day a five-man Council of State was appointed to take over the powers of the governor general until a new constitution was agreed. -
The Bay of Pigs
In early 1961 President John F. Kennedy concluded that Fidel Castro was a Soviet client working to subvert Latin America. After much debate in his administration Kennedy authorized a clandestine invasion of Cuba by a brigade of Cuban exiles. The brigade hit the beach at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, but the operation collapsed in spectacular failure within 2 days. Kennedy took public responsibility for the mistakes made, but remained determined to rid Cuba of Castro. -
Forming if the SPLA
The SPLA was formed in 1983 when Lieutenant Colonel John Garang of the SPAF was sent to quell a mutiny in Bor of 500 southern troops who were resisting orders to be rotated to the north. Instead of ending the mutiny, Garang encouraged mutinies in other garrisons and set himself at the head of the rebellion against the Khartoum government. Garang, a Dinka born into a Christian family, had studied at Grinnell College, Iowa, and later returned to the United States to take a company commanders' cour -
Dinka tribe from sudan
The Dinka people have been on the move for over 25 years due to uprooting from their homeland because of sharia law. Many Dinka are now scattererd throughout the world, living in countries with climates, cultures, and living conditions far different from what they left in Southern Sudan. While they may be scattered, the Dinka hold in their homeland close to their hearts, even though memories of Dinka culture and lifestyles may for some be fading into a distant memory. The foun -
Sharia Law
President Jaafer Mohammed al-Numeiry announced on Sept.8, 1983 that the penal code had been revised in order to link it "organically and spiritually" with Islamic Law (Sharia). Theft, adultery, murder and related offences would hence forth be judged according to the Qu'ran, and alcohol and gambling were both prohibited; non-Muslims, however, would be exempt from Qu'ranic penalties except when convicted of murder or theft. -
The Gulf War
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. While U.S. military commanders and strategists formulated offensive plans, the United Nations passed a resolution calling for military action if Hussein did not withdraw his forces by January 15, 1991.On March 6, President Bush addressed Congress and announced the liberation of Kuwait, and on March 8, U.S. forces began touching American soil for the first time in months. -
9/11 The twin towers fall
9/11 interactive timeline On this tragic day, terrorists hijacked three four planes, two hit the world trade center, one hit the pentagon, and the one that would have hit the white house was taken over by civilians aboard the plane and crashed into a field.
