History of Wars Project

  • 2001 BCE

    wars in iraq and afghanistan

    Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
    October 7 2001 December 28 2014
    Afghanistan
    United states personnel arw withdrawing form the countrty ending over a decade of fighting
    As the united states departs Iraq after more than eight years of war occupation the stepped up use of remote tatics and light footprint special operation forces
  • 1990 BCE

    Trojan War

    8th century BCE-13th century BCE
    Believed that troy was located near the Dardanelles
    The purpose of the tojan war was when Queen Helen of sparta by the trojan pricne
    The Greeks won !!;The main cause of the trojan war because when paris was the judge of a beaty contest it came down to the three goddesses;Athena and hera, Aphrodite

    Odysseus,Aenea,Diomedos,Achille,Patroclus,Nestor,Hecuba,Protesilaus
  • 1990 BCE

    Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War
    August 2,1990;Febaury 28;1991
    Mediterranean sea in western sea
    The conflict between Iraq and a coalititon force of 34 nations mandated ;It lead up to the invasion of kuwait in august 1990
    The gulf war showed that natural resources could be a weapon;The U.S the maximum with an estimated financial expenditure
    Izzat Ibranhimal-Douri;Hosni Mubarak;Michel Roquejeoffre;
    Musafa Tiass;Margaret Thatcher;Salah Aboud Mahmoud
  • 1979 BCE

    Afghan-Soviet War

    Afghan-Soviet War
    December 25, 1979 - Febuary 15, 1989
    Afghanistan;Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
    In december 1979 in the midst of the cold war the soviet 40th Army invaded in order to prop up the communist
    Soviet faliure to quell the afghan mujahiden insurgency geneva accord
    Ahmad shah Massoud,Abdul haq,Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 1955 BCE

    Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    November 1 1955 -April 30 1975
    Vietman,South Vietnam,Cambodia,North Vietnam,Loas,South Asia
    The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were Fighting to reunify Vietnam.
    North Vietnamese victory withdrawl of American-led forces Indochina communist governments take power in south Vietnam,Laos and cambodia South Vietnam is annexed by Northern Veinam
  • 1950 BCE

    Korean War

    Korean War
    June 25,1950-July 27,1953
    Korea;Korean Peninsula; Korean Demilitarized Zone
    Domino theory-china turned communist in 1949 and Truman feared that the next domino would be japan
    The Korean War impacted on Rural Life , The U.S Army had fewer than 600,000 soldiers and half of them were based in the states
    Matthew Ridgway,Harry S.Truman;United Staes;Mark W.Clark;United States;Chung ll-kwon;South Korea;Peng Dehuai;china;Kim chaek;North Korea
  • 1948 BCE

    Arab-Israiel War

    Arab-Israiel Wars
    May 15 1948
    Israel,Palestine,Mandatory Palestine,Sinai Peninsula
    As a result of Israels victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War any Arabs caught on the wrong side of the ceasefire line were unable to return to their homes in what became Israel
    The change was their independence
    Yaakov Dori;John Bagot Glubb;Mohammed Naguib;Saad Haddad;Antoine lahad;Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni;Yitzhak Rabin;Ariel sharon;Yigael Yadin:Hasan Salama;Moshe Dayan
  • 1947 BCE

    Cold War

    Cold War
    1947-1991
    United States,Soviet Union,Europe,Vietnam,Cuba ,Korea,Greece,South America ,East Asia
    The cold war was a state of political and military tension after world war ll between powers in western bloc and powers in eastern bloc
    The cold war ended up affecting by having wars erupt within them it affected veitnam Korea Afghanistan
    General ford,Dwight D Eisenhower,Yasser Arafat,Ching Kaishek,Hun Sen,Heng Samrin
  • 1870 BCE

    Franco-Prussian War

    Franco-Prussian War
    July 19,1870-May 1871
    France, Kingdom of Prussia
    the causes of the Franco-Prussian War are deeply rooted in the events surrounding the German Unification
    The war marked the end of french hegemony in continental europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany
    Frederick ll-German Emperor,Fracois Achille Bazaine,Helmuth von Moltke the Elder,Patrice de MacMahon,
  • 1485 BCE

    war of the roses

    War of the Roses
    1455
    England ,
    Pale of Calais
    War of the roses came into common use in the nineteenth century, The major leaders are Richard of York,3rd Duke of York , Richard Neville,6th Earl of Warwick,Richard lll of England
  • 1341 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

    Peloponnesian war
    April 25 431 bce
    Sicily,Ancient Greece
    Democratic Reforms of cleisthenes which sparta always opposed
    The transfer in hegemony domination in greece from athens to sparta
  • 264 BCE

    Punic War

    264BC-146BC
    Sicily,Sardina,Mediterranean Sea, North Africa
    The punic wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage;Hamilcar Barca,Hasdurbal the fair,Xanthippus of carthage,Hanno the great,.It was fought over land .
    Romans,Inslaved the entire population and burned down the city
    The Major Leaders were Hailcar Barca his sons Hasdrubal and Hannibal,Scipio Africanus adopted grandson Scipio Aemilianus
  • 116

    hundred years war

    Hundred Years War
    1337-1453
    France , Low Countries
    Because he wanted to rule both countries but he couldnt and he didin´t want to be ruled by an English Monarch
    Farmlands were laid waste the population was decimated by war famine and the black death
    King Edward ,King,the black prince-son of Edward lll, King Henry lV,King Henry V,King Henry Vl
  • French-Indian War

    French and Indian War
    1754-1763
    North America
    They were fighting for the control of much of north america
    France cedes New France east of the Mississippi River to Great Britian retaining Saint Pierre and Miquelon and transfers loiusianna to spain

    Jeffery Amherst,George Wshington,Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville,Joseph Coulon de Jumoville,George Monro,James Abercrombie
  • Sino-Japanese War

    Sino-Japanese War
    August 1,1894-April 17,1895
    Taiwan,Korea,Manchuria,Yellow Sea
    Japan;Primarly wanting to take over korea
    Japan victory A significant loss of prestige for the Qing Empire
    Song Qing,Ding Ruchang
  • WWI

    WWl
    July 28 1914 , November 11 1918
    Africa,Middle East, Asia, Pacific Ocean
    The whole purpose of WWI is that the immediate cause of the aasination of Franz Ferdinand
    The outcome of wwi it changed economicaly;The Allied Powers defeated the Central Powers

    William ll;Emperor of Germany Czar Nicholas ll;Russia George CLemenceau;FranceWood Wilson; David Lloyd :Great Bitian
  • WWII

    WWll
    September 1 1939 September 2 1945
    Russia,Europe,Africa,Pacif ocean, Asia
    Japan needs to dominate natural resources in asia
    It changed everyday uses Food,gas,clothing
    Wladyslaw Anders;Poland;George S.Patton;Adolf Hitler;Nazi Germany;Benoito Mussolini;Italy;Harry S.Truman
  • Persian Wars

    Greece,Egypt,Ancient Greece
    When the Athens aided Greek city-states in Asia Minor in rebelling aginst the Persian Empire a conflict began that became known as the Persian Wars
    Greece;The Greeks were able to regroup
    Darius;Xerxes;Greece;Athenians 500-479 BC