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5 Events Which Changed Course of the History

June 24, 2010 History

Constantine I and First Council of Nicaea AD 325

In the year AD 312, after the victory at the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312, Constantine 1, ruler of Roman Empire converted to Christianity, and he played most important rule in propagation of Christianity as dominant religion in the Roman Empire and in the whole world.

Constantine 1 was the person who convened the first council of Nicaea consisted of Christian in AD 325, main achievements of this meeting were the settlement of the issue of Jesus ‘s relationship with God, the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed ,settling the calculation of the date of Easter; and promulgation of early canon law.

9/11 and War on Terror

On the morning of 11 September 2001, two planes crashed into twin towers killing at least 2,995 people, straightaway USA accused Al-Qaeda for this attack; USA attacked Afghanistan and Iraq by making excuse these attacks and launched War on terror in 2001.

USA named this “war against terror” but people think otherwise, they say it is war against Islam and Muslims, nine years have passed since the start of this war, but still it seems it is a aimless and directionless war; War on terror has diverted the world attention towards terrorism and US alone has spent trillion of dollars on War in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fall of Soviet Union

Fall of Soviet Union in 1991 is one of the most important events of 20th century, before the dissolution of Soviet Union there were two super powers in the world, but after this event, USA emerged as the sole super power.
Fall of Soviet union paved the way for the independence of Central Asian republics and also for unipolar world dominant by sole super power USA.

Fall of Ottomon Empire and Mustafa Kamal

During the World War 1, Ottoman Empire sided with Germany against Russia which proved costly for them and it provided impetus to the fall of Ottoman Empire; In 1916 Arabs revolted against Ottoman Empire creating more problems for the Empire.
The Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920) was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. ,40 new countries were created after this treaty from former territories of the Ottoman Empire.

Pearl Harbor Attack

The attack on Pearl Harbor aka “Hawaii Operation” by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters ,was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Pearl Harbor attack resulted in the United States’ entry into World War II,The real motive of the attack was to preventive U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines. The attack was conducted by 353 Japanese aircrafts.

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