What is worth fighting for

By 27mkrasco@woburnps.com

  • Beginning of French Revolution

  • Napoleon comes to power

  • Start of Napoleonic Wars

  • End of French Revolution

  • Battle of Austerlitz

    Napoleon was fighting for glory, and pride during the Battle of Austerlitz.

  • Jewish invasion of Palestine

  • territory of Rwanda was assigned to Germany

  • The Jewish State, Theodore Herzl

    They fought for their own welfare as well as for the good and benefit of humanity.

  • first Zionist Congress in Switzerland

  • Nationalism + Jews + Land = Zionism

  • Report of The Congo Commission of inquiry

  • failed Russian Revolution

  • Constitution of the Black Hand

    The Black Hand organization is fighting for revolutionary struggle rather than relying on cultural striving

  • Assassination of Ferdinand

  • the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Britain issued the “Balfour Declaration"

  • WWI Ends

  • Ottoman empire falls

  • Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine

  • Calderón’s first term ended

  • UN Formed Holocaust

  • end of World War II

  • Resolution

  • Jews had secured full control of their U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory

  • Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. Ben-Gurion became Israel’s first premier.

  • José Figueres Ferrer led an armed uprising against the government of President Teodoro Picado

  • Ulate won the election

  • Picado signed the Pact of the Mexican Embassy that ended the war.

  • Costa Rican Constitution

    They fought for public education, exclusive sovereignty and defending their principles and beliefs.

  • Israel became an independent state

  • Hutus rebelled against the Belgian colonial power and the Tutsi elite

  • PLO launched attacks on Israel

  • 0,000 Tutsis in Rwanda were killed in response to a military attack by exiled Tutsis from Burundi

  • Six-Day War

  • Arafat became Chairman of the PLO’s Executive Committee

  • PLO was forced to relocate from Jordan, shifting its headquarters to Lebanon.

  • the army chief of staff, Juvénal Habyarimana took control of Rwanda

  • Speech of UN General Assembly

    Yasir Arafat fought for liberation and freedom of his land from invaders.

  • Ali Abdullah Saleh became ruler of North Yemen

  • Israel and Egypt signed a historic peace agreement

  • Start of The First Intifada

  • Rwandan exiles in Uganda formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)

  • Modern Yemen State was Formed

  • RPF launched a major attack on Rwanda from Uganda

  • Hutu Ten Commandments

    They fought for spread of their ethnicity and beliefs.

  • End of The First Intifada

  • Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed a major peace accord

  • first Oslo Accord agreement was signed

  • President Habyarimana and the RPF signed a power-sharing agreement

  • Arafat returned to Gaza to head up the PA, after being exiled for 27 years.

  • RPF GAINS CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY, END OF THE GENOCIDE

  • aircraft carrying President Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Ntaryamira of Burundi crashed

  • RWANDA’S PRIME MINISTER AND 10 UN PEACEKEEPERS ARE KILLED – START OF THE GENOCIDE

  • King Leopard Announces Congo A Free State

  • second Oslo Accord agreement was signed

  • START OF NATIONAL GENOCIDE TRIALS

  • Hamas won the majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.

  • Start of Southern Movement

  • Hamas defeated Fatah in a battle for Gaza

  • Saleh stepped aside from rule

  • Formation of Yemens new constitution

  • Hamas and Fatah agreed to a deal that would form a unified national Palestinian government.

  • suicide attacks on two Zaydi mosques in Sanaa

  • Yemen Civil War begins

  • PLO became a member of the International Criminal Court

  • Stockholm Agreement averted a battle in the port city of Hodeidah

  • killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi

  • Eleven facts about the Yemen crisis, UN Humanitarian

    The UN's reason to fight is that innocent civilians specifically children and women are being maimed and killed and in need of resources

  • Yemen’s new governing council helped consolidate anti-Houthi forces