International Crisis

  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war
    This war lasted from 1754-1763
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    The homestead act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
  • Land Rush

    Land Rush
    The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres.
  • Vietnam founded

    The Viet Minh—the League for the Independence of Vietnam—is founded
  • Bomb Dropping

    The United States drops an atomic bomb—the first to be used in warfare—on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000.
  • Another bomb dropping

    A second bomb is dopped in Nagasaki
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan surrenders to the Allied Powers, officially ending World War II
  • War begins

    The Viet Minh attacks French forces occupying Hanoi in northern Vietnam. The First Indochina War begins.
  • Military Aid

    The United States recognizes Bao Dai's government, the Republic of Vietnam, and gives France $15 million in military aid.
  • Dien Bien Phu begins

    The Viet Minh launches its first assault on French forces at Dien Bien Phu.
  • Diem Repression

    Ngo Dinh Diem begins a campaign to repress those who fought for or sympathized with the Viet Minh.
  • Invasion

    Saddam Hussein Kuwait in early 1990
  • Withdrawal

    August 3rd, 1990 the United Nations ask for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait
  • Peace Treaty

    Iraq has 300,000 troops in Kuwait... Hussein declares JIhad (holy war) creates a hastened peace treaty with Iran to get military up to full strenght
  • Withdraw

    United Nations gives them until January 15th,1991 to withdraw
  • Desert Storm

    Operation Desert Storm begins (Norman Schwarzkopf) use of stealth bombers, cruise missiles, smart bombs and night bombing equipment
  • Desert Sabre

    The ground offensive begins... Operation Desert Sabre... Storm Kuwait and the southern part of Iraq
  • Attacks

    42 days of attacks- Febraury 28th a cease fire
  • Forced to leave

    Dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was forced to flee the capital
  • Defies U.S orders

    January- 1991- Hussein defies U.S orders
  • Bosnia Peace Fail

    Peace Efforts fail, then a war breaks out
  • Ends Mission

    The U.S. ends the mission to Somalia, which has cost $1.7 billion dollars and left 43 U.S. soldiers dead
  • Air Strikes

    NATO starts air strikes against Bosnian Serb troops.
  • West Forces

    West forces Karadzic to quit as Bosnian Serb president.
  • Underground

    Having lost power, Karadzic goes underground.
  • Return

    Return of weapon inspections
  • Removed

    Gush Gives Hussein ultimatum- step down or be removed
  • War

    Leads to Iraq War in 2003-2011
  • Another War

    Persian Gulf War II begins (Iraq War)