Military Actions

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WW I

1914 - Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry assasinated
1919 - Treaty of Versailles

WW II

1939 - Germany invades Poland
December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day
May of 1945 - Victory in Europe
1945 - Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
September 2, 1945 Japan Surrenders

Korean Conflict Soviet View of the War in Korea

1950 - North Korea invades South Korea
1953 - Armistice signed at Panmunjom

Berlin Wall

August 13, 1961 Construction of the Wall
November 10, 1989 demolition works begin

Vietnam Era

December 22, 1961, Army Specialist 4th Class James T. Davis died in an ambush not far from Saigon—the first U.S. soldier to be killed in action in the Vietnam war.
1964  Attack on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnam
mid 1971 the American withdrawal was well underway
1975 - South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam

USS Liberty

June 1967 Isreal was preparing to seize the Golan Heights from Syria

USS Pueblo

January 23, 1968 was attacked by North Korean naval vessels and MiG jets.  The Pueblo was an ELINT/SIGINT ship.

KAL Flight 007

August 31, 1983

Grenada

October 25, 1983 - U.S. forces land on Grenada
December, 1983 - U.S. military units leave the island with a pro-democracy government in place

Vincennes

July 1988 the US Navy battle cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf

Pan Am Flight 103

December 1988 a bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland

Panama

February, 1988 - Contingency Plans start for a Panama invasion
December 27, 1989 - U.S. Forces begin withdraw

Desert Storm - Desert Shield

August 2, 1990 - Saddam Hussein orders invasion of Kuwait
January 16, 1991 - Operation Desert Shield begins with air strikes on Iraq
March 3, 1991 - Iraq formally accepts cease fire terms

Bosnia-Herzegovina

May 30 1991
November 8 1993

Links

U.S. War and Conflict History Site -
USS Liberty -
USS Pueblo -
KAL Flight 007 - What Happened to Flight 007? - The Truth About the Korean Airlines Flight-007 -
The Lockerbie Bombing and the USS Vincennes -
Brief History of the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Operation JOINT FORGE -
Defense Technical Information Center -
Korean War Commemorative Web Site -
Kosovo

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