WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II, COLD WAR By facebooker_670663639185466 Jun 28, 1914 Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Jul 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia Aug 4, 1914 Germany invades Belgium; Britain declares war Sep 6, 1914 First Battle of the Marne Feb 21, 1915 Battle of Verdun Jul 1, 1916 Battle of the Somme begins Apr 6, 1917 U.S. declares war on Germany Nov 11, 1918 Germany signs armistice Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles signed Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland (WWII begins) Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades Soviet Union. Italy declares war on Soviet Union. Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 United States and Britain declare war on Japan. Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Jun 6, 1944 D-Day (Allied invasion of Normandy) 1945 World War II ends; Germany divided into Occupation Zones May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders 1948 Berlin Blockade 1953 Death of Stalin; Nikita Khrushchev takes over 1956 Suez Canal Crisis 1957 Space Race Begins; USSR launches Sputnik I 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion; Berlin Wall Goes Up 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 President John F. Kennedy assasinated 1964 Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev 1969 End of Space Race; US spacecraft Apollo 11 lands on moon 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis 1986 Chernobyl disaster 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 USSR ends; Boris Yeltsin becomes president of Russia