The Belgian King Leopold wanted to have Belgian colonies in Africa.
Following the death of Archduke Ferdinand, Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia. Many countries joined together and formed alliances.
The killing of almost 1.5 million Armenians.
Picking up Germany and rising to power.
Joesph Stalin become the General Secretary of his party. Following the death of Lenin, he took over the Communist Party ,
Following the crash of the stock market, the economy was at a terrible low (depression) and business was almost at a halt.
The Famine - Stalin takes over...
The Japanese Imperial Army carried out a huge massacre in Nanjing (China).
One of the most well known yet tragic events in our history. The "extermination", as Hitler called it, of nearly 6 million Jews.
The second global war where the Allies fought against the Axis. It was a lot more weaponized than the first world war and caused the death of millions of people.
Jewish-Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin created the word after his tragic childhood and worked endlessly to try to prevent anything else remotely close to the Holocaust from ever happening again.
After the Holocaust and two world wars, nations came together to prevent anything like the events that the world was just recovering from ever happening again.
Called the "Cold War" because there was no direct conflict between US and Russia.
When France was having troubles regaining control of Vietnam, they looked to the US for help when Vietnam turned to China.
At the very least, there were 45 million casualties under the leadership of the communist leader Mao.
The leader of The Khmer Rouge party was Pol Pot who essentially wanted to carry out an ethnic cleansing and create a new Cambodia.
Iraq invaded Iran as there was already a lot of tension between the two countries to begin with. It was lead by Saddam Hussein (Iraq).
There was a huge killing of the Kurdish people carried out by Saddam Hussein and his cousin. Chemical warfare was used and hundreds of thousands of people were seriously injured or dead.
It was announced that the gates would be open and citizens of West Germany could travel across to East Germany,
The trial of the football player who dragged a lot of media attention away from the Rwanda Genocide.
Mass murder of the Tutsi population carried out by the Hutu people.
One of the more public and media spread genocides. There was an ethnic cleansing in Serbia.
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