The Hellenic Genocide was the extermination, systematic torture and ethnic cleansing of approximately 750,000-900,000 Greeks committed by the Turks.
On June 28 1914 the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. This set off a chain reaction of events which would later lead to the start of World War I.
World War I begins with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. It became a full engulfed war with numerous amounts of battles that were fought between the central powers and the allies.
"Armenia without the Armenians" - that is the Ottoman Government's project.
The Russian Revolution took place near the end of World War I in 1917. It pulled Russia from the war and it impacted the Russian Empire as it resulted in the form of the Union of Socialist Republics (USSR).
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace settlement given to Germany following World War I. The Treaty placed restrictions on Germany and made them pay reparations as they were being held accountable for World War I.
In 1929, the Great Depression swept across the globe resulting in businesses laying off workers causing families to become penniless. Ironically it would take one of the deadliest wars in history to lift the world out of the Great Depression.
The crash of the stock market on October’25 1929 launched the world into an economic depression.
"On a battlefield men die quickly. Here I saw people dying alone by slow degrees, dying hideously, without even the excuse of sacrifice for a cause. The worst sights were the little children with skeleton limbs. Starvation had wiped every trace of youth from their faces."
"The beginning, the end: all the world's outcries of mankind, lead to this accursed place. Here is the kingdom of night, where God's face is hidden and a flaming sky becomes a graveyard for vanished people" - Elie Wiesel
On Jan. 30, 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg named Aldolf Hitler leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party) as chancellor of Germany.
During March 1933, the Nazis had successfully established their first concentration camp for political prisoners, Dachau.
The Nazi Party enforced the Nuremberg Laws on all people of Jewish descent in August of 1935. This became one of the Nazis evil regimes to try and accomplish their goal of persecuting the entire Jewish population.
"If the dead from Nanking were to link hands, they would stretch from Nanking to the city of Hangchow, spanning a distance of some two hundred miles."
On September 1, 1939 Germany attacked Poland which marked the beginning of World War II. Other countries felt obligated to join, which resulted in a 6 years of political disputes, long fought battles and millions of deaths.
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese surprise attacked the United States through a strategic airstrike on Pearl Harbour. This event immediately invoked the United States to enter World War II.
Adolf Hitler, the ruthless dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945, commits suicide.
On August 6, 1945 President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the first incredibly destructive atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
The United Nations was fully established on October 24, 1945 when the charter was endorsed.
Following World War II, allies agreed that they needed to bring the perpetrators to justice. 21 defendants including Hitler successors, were tried for their crimes against humanity.
The Korean war was between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). It lasted from 25th of June 1950 to the 27th of July 1953.
Joseph Stalin, a merciless communist ruler in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953, passes away from a major stroke.
The Vietnam War was a proxy war that represented a prolonged struggle between North and South Vietnam. The United States attempted to prevent the expansion of communism with the help of the South, while the North promoted communism with the aid of the Soviets.
The Civil Rights movement had intended to stop racial injustice against African Americans.
The Great Leap Forward became Mao’s attempt to reconstruct China’s economy so it would surpass the United States’ industrialization.
The cold war represented the competition and struggle between the United States and Soviet Union to fight for their two distinct ideologies (democracy vs communism). Both of these superpowers, spent the next decades building and stockpiling nuclear weapons and fighting a series of proxy wars to competitively rise up against one another.
The Rise of the Berlin Wall represented the iron curtain that was had descended across Europe. It had a significant impact on the Cold War and was a clear representation of communism vs democracy.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense 13-day political dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1958, Chairman Mao believed that China’s citizens were becoming increasingly smarter and were acquiring too much power.
"One step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
In April 1975, the Cambodian communist party, Khmer Rouge, came into full power.
Chairman Mao, a Chinese communist revolutionary and politician dies from Motor Neuron Disease.
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Following the the American Embassy in Tehran being taken over by Islamist students, 52 American were held hostage for 444 days.
Conflict between the armed forces of Iran and Iraq. Began with Iraq invading Iran under Saddam Hussein's command.
In the midst of the Iran-Iraq war and The United States was selling weapons to Iran.
"A greenish smoke rose from the bombs. Several minutes later people’s eyes started to burn. They started to throw up, and then darkness came. Our bodies were burning and we lost our ability to see. Each of us was screaming where we lay, and we had nothing other than God."
The Fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union were unable to keep up with the United States supremacy. Civilians in east Berlin were now free from communist rule.
In April 1992, the Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina seceded and became independent from Yugoslavia.
"Human corpses floated lifeless among the trees and grass. The border guards told me people had been floating through in their hundreds, every day for weeks. Many had their hands tied behind their backs. They had been shot, hacked, clubbed, burned, drowned."
This event jump started the Rwandan genocide. Almost immediately after the crash, Hutu extremists took over the government and blamed the Tutsis for the assassination. This then resulted in the mass murder of Tutsis.
The OJ Simpson trial was one of the most publicized and heightened media frenzied events in America's history. OJ Simpson, a ex-NFL football star, was on trial for murdering his x-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman on Jan. 12, 1994 outside her Los Angeles home.
On September 11, 2001 member's of the Islamist terrorist group, al-Qaeda, hijacked four planes. Two of these planes were flown into the two twin towers of the World Trade Center, killing over 3000 people.
For many years, a civil war raged between North and South Sudan. North Sudan was made up of mostly Muslims while Southern Sudan population was predominantly Christian.
The US invaded and captured Baghdad with the intent to to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, oust Saddam Hussein from power, and to free the Iraqi people.This ended Saddam Hussein's regime.
Barrack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States.
An ongoing conflict between in Syria between those loyal to the Syrian Ba'ath Party government and those trying to oust them from power.
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