FREE ESSAY ON CHRONOLOGY

CHRONOLOGY

Semion Bolotin
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Chronology of Main Dates
428 B.C.
World's first democracy in Athens, Greece
300 B.C.
Rome managed to defeat Carthage for the second time and gain dominance in Mediterranean.
989
Church council began to implement "Peace of God" Movement.
1017
"Truth of God" prohibited fighting from Saturday afternoon till Monday
1054
Church came forth with the statement "a Christian who slays another Christian sheds the
blood of Christ'
1200
King Richard of England ordered the beheading of 2700 Muslim prisoners captured during
the Crusade
1600
European chivalry shaken by violence began with Protestant Reformation.
1618-1648
The Thirty Year War involved troops from throughout Europe
1796-1815
The Napoleonic Wars, showed deadly power of new military technologies.
1864
American Civil War, first modern war.
1868
St. Petersburg Declaration, outlawed certain bullets as inhumane.
1899 & 1907
International Peace Conferences at The Hague attempted to come up with rules of war.
1914-1918
World War I.
1918
British and German pilots dropped 100 tons of explosives, killing 7,000 men
1920's
International effort to stop the development of war power.
1930's
Germany's, Italian and Japanese rise; the rise of the aggressors. Japan began to invade
China.
1939
World War II in Europe; all war conducts forgotten, the war had turned into 'total war'.
1939
Poland falls victim of the German 'blitzkreig'.
1940
Hitler begins to attack Rotterdam.
1940
Fall of France.
1940
'Luftwaffe' began towards British airfields and aircraft factories.
1940
Japan became allies with Nazi Germany.
1941
End of 'blitz'.
1941
The bombing of Pearl Harbor leads to US entering the war.
1942-1944
Fighting between the Japanese and the Americans in the Pacific.
1942
Fremi achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1942
US army came up with the Manhattan Project.
1942
Allies adopt policy of "strategic bombing".
1943
Allies perform a 'carpet bombing' on Hamburg.
1943
Casablanca Conference.
1944
America began to try to dismantle Japan's island empire in the Pacific.
1945
Yalta Conference.
1945
B-29 air raid in Tokyo, conducted by US.
1945
Roosevelt dies.
1945
Atomic bomb is manufactured.
1945
American super fortress bomber named Enola Gay took off from Pacific Island of Tinian
carrying 'Little Boy'.
1945
Japan asks Soviet Union for help.
1945
White House announced the atomic bomb to be the greatest achievement of organized science
history.
1945
Soviet Union enters the war against Japan.
1945
Japan offered to surrender on the condition that the position of the Japanese emperor not
to be compromised.
1945
Tokyo is bombed by B-29's.