1914 - Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry assasinated
1919 - Treaty of Versailles
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
1950 - North Korea invades South Korea
1953 - Armistice signed at Panmunjom
August 13, 1961 Construction of the Wall
November 10, 1989 demolition works begin
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
June 1967 Isreal was preparing to seize the Golan Heights from Syria
January 23, 1968 was attacked by North Korean naval vessels and MiG jets. The Pueblo was an ELINT/SIGINT ship.
August 31, 1983
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
July 1988 the US Navy battle cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf
December 1988 a bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
February, 1988 - Contingency Plans start for a Panama invasion
December 27, 1989 - U.S. Forces begin withdraw
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
May 30 1991
November 8 1993
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