https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3 Timeline of Major World Conflicts from 1900 to Today en-us 2022-08-24 02:29:17 UTC 2023-09-05 15:00:01 UTC hello@padlet.com mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269565988 World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. That murder alongside the long-term causes of increasing international tensions over rising militarism, the growth of the alliance system, imperialist rivalries, and increasing nationalism led to an explosion of violence in Europe that lasted until 1918.
During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Canada, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.]]> 2022-08-24 02:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269565988 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269568040 The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making the country the first Communist country in the world.]]> 2022-08-24 02:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269568040 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269571485 The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, during World War I, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians. This was the first of many genocides during the 20th century including Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin's forced famines in the Ukraine, the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese, Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide, the Rwandan Genocide, and the genocide in Bosnia. ]]> 2022-08-24 02:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269571485 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269573155 The failure of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, the rise of dictatorships across Europe and Asia, rising nationalism, and appeasement (giving into the demands of an aggressor to preserve peace) policies by European powers set were four key causes of another international conflict, World War II—which broke out two decades after World War I ended. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. The war ended in 1945 when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ]]> 2022-08-24 02:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269573155 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269574446 The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. Meanwhile, American officials worked anxiously to fashion some sort of armistice with the North Koreans. The alternative, they feared, would be a wider war with Russia and China–or even, as some warned, World War III. Finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end. In all, some 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives in what many in the U.S. refer to as “the Forgotten War” for the lack of attention it received compared to more well-known conflicts like World War I and II and the Vietnam War. The Korean peninsula is still divided today.]]> 2022-08-24 02:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269574446 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269575685 The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews (as well as millions of others, including Romani people, the intellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. ]]> 2022-08-24 02:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269575685 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269577230 The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. ]]> 2022-08-24 02:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269577230 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269578658 During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans wanted to stop the growth of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity. These tensions grew only worse when North Korea became communist in 1945 and China fell to communism in 1949. The Cold War would last until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed ending communist rule in the country.]]> 2022-08-24 02:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269578658 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269581029
As much of the nation was just starting the day on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four East Coast flights, crashing three of the airplanes into targets in New York and Washington, D.C., with the fourth plane slamming into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. In the end, 2,977 people died, making it the deadliest attack on U.S. soil in history. The al Qaeda-led attacks prompted President George W. Bush to declare a global “War on Terror” military campaign, in which he called on world leaders to join the U.S. in its response.

]]> 2022-08-24 02:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269581029 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269582350 On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing campaign by American and British forces. Logistical support was provided by other nations including France, Germany, Australia and Canada and, later, troops were provided by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance rebels. The invasion of Afghanistan was the opening salvo in the United States “war on terror” and a response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. The conflict in Afghanistan would span two decades and become the longest war in U.S. history. ]]> 2022-08-24 02:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269582350 mhodgins1 https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269584359 On March 19, 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the specious claim that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons were never found.]]> 2022-08-24 02:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mhodgins1/wsmsinkcc6br8gg3/wish/2269584359