Dates

• Beginning of WW1


  1914
• Machine gun fitted to plane and synchronised to fire between propeller blades

  1915
• End of WW1


  1918
• Spanish Civil War


  1936-39
• Germany invades Poland, WW2 begins

  1st September 1939
• German bombing on Warsaw and Warsaw surrenders


  September 1939
• Germany invades France


  1940
• Dunkirk evacuation begins


  1940
• Battle of Britain


  1940, summer
• Germans transfer focus from battle of Britain to the blitz


  September 1940
• Germans introduce wolf packs (U-boats attack convoys)


  1941
• End of Blitz


  1941
• Operation Barbarossa


  1941
• Pearl Habour attack, USA joins WW2

  1941
• D-day invasion


  6th June 1944
• First v-1 hits London

  1944
• First V-2 hits London

  1944
• Arnhem Operation


  September, 1944
• VE day


  1945
• USA drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan and Japan surrenders


  1945
• USSR test their first atomic bomb

  1949
• Korean war


  1950
• USA develops first H bomb

  1952
• USA develops first nuclear-powered submarine


  1952
• USSR develops first H bomb


  1953
• First ICBM


  1957
• USSR develops first nuclear powered submarine


  1959
• Partial test ban treaty

  1963
• Vietnam war begins


  1955
• Outer space treaty


  1967
• Six day war begins

  1967
• Non-proliferation treaty


  1968
• SALT 1


  1972
• USA pulls out of Vietnam war

  1973
• SALT 2


  1979
• Falklands war


  1982
• End of first gulf war

  1991
• Attacks on the World trade center

  September 11, 2001
• President Bush declares war on terror


  September 2001
• USA Invades Afghanistan


  October 2001