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WWI Timeline

Comprehensive  Year-by-Year Timelines with Photos Year Timeline Title Highlights 1914 War Erupts Pre-war Alliances; Belgium Invaded; Battle of Tannenberg; Battle of the Marne; First Battle of Ypres; Trench Warfare Begins 1915 A Global Conflict Poison Gas First Used; U-Boat Warfare Begins; Second Battle of Ypres; Gallipoli Landings; Lusitania Sunk; Italy Enters War 1916 The Blood Letting Battle of Verdun; Sea Battle of Jutland; Russian Brusilov Offensive; Battle of the Somme; French Nivelle Offensive; Romania Enters War 1917 The Rage of Men Zimmermann Telegram; Russian Revolution; America Enters War; French Mutiny; Third Battle of Ypres; Caporetto Attack; British Tank Attack 1918 A Fateful Ending German Spring Offensives; First American Action; Allied Counter-Offensives; Armistice Ends Fighting; Treaty of Versailles; Post-war Germany source: http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index.html

VIETNAM WAR AS THE WORKING-CLASS WAR

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Vietnam war is regarded to be one of the most controversial and divisive wars in the American history, which left numerous implications on the present-day American society. Americans were present in Vietnam for nearly 30 years, from 1944 to 1973. The US supported French attempt to subjugate their former colony and to stop the spread of communism. However, the French had lost the war by 1954, while Ho Chi Minh established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the northern part of the country. Consequently, the US supported the creation of the rival state in the southern part of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam. Despite the fact that Americans helped, advised and financed South Vietnamese army, they were losing their positions. This led to the direct American involvement in 1965. However, after the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Americans started to withdrawn from Vietnam, which completed in 1973. The war ended in 1975 after the victory of the North Vietnamese Army, which reunited the divided