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Arch Duke Ferdinand is assasinated, which prompts WWI to begin.
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Alliences pull Britain into the war.
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German submarine sinks the Lusitania, a passenger ship, killing 1,198 people with 128 of them being American citizens.
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WWI ends after Germany formally surrenders and the other nations agree to stop fighting.
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After long tensions at the 38th parallel, North Korea finally invades its sister country.
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The US Army pushes the North Korean army back across teh 38th parallel in a surpirse attack.
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North Korea's capital falls and is now under UN control.
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Frusturated with the restictions on fighting in Korea, MacArthur gives his infamous speech.
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After realizing their priorities aren't the same, Truman decides it's best that MacArthur leaves.
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Negotiations to end the war start at Panmunjom, a town right at the border of North and South Korea
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The Vietnam War officially begins.
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South Vietnam forces assassinated Ngo Dinh Diem, who was the Dictator of North Vietnam. This is when the United States get truly involoved.
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North Vietnamese forces plan to attack on a mass scale on a day that was supposedly a cease fire. This lead to mass chaos and Americans finally began to doubt the war.
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American forces slaughtered an innocent village of North Vietnamese people.
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American forces begin to move out of South Vietnam and try to give over all of the duties to the South Vietnamese forces.
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Shootings took place on the Kent State University which killed 4 innocent people. This happened because students were protesting the war.
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Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Operation Homecoming takes place, and all of the POW's from teh Vietnam War are able to return home to their families.
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The last US solider finally leave Vietnam soil and they return home,
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After the Water Gate Scandal, Richard Nixon decides to resign from office.
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The War finally comes to an end.
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After North American troops leave, Saigon finally falls to the North Vietnamese.
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Saddam Hussein orders the invasion of Kuwait. Neighboring countries ask the United Nations for help shortly after they discover this.
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Hussien does not follow U.S orders.
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After Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia a Civil War begins.
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In Sarajevo snipers begin firing on civilians and killing many, including 3,500 children. As the shootings progressed they eventually ended up in the Serbians rounding up Muslims and began mass shootings.
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The Battle of Somalia begins, ultimately claiming the lives of 19 US soilders, and wounding 73 others. The Somalian forces had somewhere between 315-2,000 either wounded or killed.
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Finally, the battle ends at 6:30 in the morning.
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This was an operation by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) against Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lasted for about two and a hald weeks and was very controversial at the time.
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Milosevic finally agrees to talk about peace, and agrees to allow democratic elections, Bosnian Serb Republic and Muslim-Croat Federation be created, and war criminals be handed over for prosectution of their crimes.
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Short cease fire in the war.
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After 42 days of attacks, war begins.
