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Women's March on Versailles
Crowds of Parisian women met at the city hall in to demand bread. When they were denied bread, they marched twelve miles to Versailles in order to confront the royal family. This was a pivotal event in the French Revolution. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. After this battle, he was abdicated and then later died in exile. About 48,000 soldiers from both sides died in this battle. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty brought World War 1 to an end. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was mostly negotiated by the Allied Powers with little participation from Germany. -
Kristallnacht
The night of September 9/early morning September 10, Nazis terrorized Jews. This was also known as "The Night of Broken Glass." Over a thousand Jewish synagogues and 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and approximately 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. This was because Japan wanted to destroy the fleet so it wouldn't stop the Japanese expansion into the South Pacific. -
Bataan Death March
This was when the Japanese forced 76,000 Allied soldier prisoners to march 80 miles across the Bataan peninsula. 10,000 men died in this march. The men that made it through the march were then put in confinement camps. -
D-Day
D-Day was the invasion of Normandy. Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. This was the turning point of World War 2. -
Hiroshima and Nagaski Bombing
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagaski in August 9. President Truman used these bombs in order to end World War 2. About 90,000-146,000 people in Hiroshima died and 39,000-80,000 in Nagaski. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted 13 days (October 16-October 28.) This was in retaliation to construction of several mission sites in Cuba. Because Cuba didn't get rid of their missiles when warned by the United States, Kennedy enforced a "quarantine." -
Jonestown
Jonestown was a cult led by Jim Jones in Guyana. On this date, more than 900 members died in a mass suicide. This was done through cyanide-laced Kool Aid. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
This massacre was in response to the student protests being led in the square. Chinese troops entered the square and fired into the crowd. They were protesting against government corruption. -
9/11
September 11, 2011 was the day that the Twin Towers were attacked by two planes. 2,996 people were killed in this terrorist attack. Four airplanes were hijacked: two for the twin towers, one for the Pentagon, and one headed for the White House but it never got there.