Weapons/Warfare

By Casson
  • Civil War Ends

    General Lee surrenders granting victory to the North.
  • Period: to

    Warfare Througout Industry

  • August Fiedler Invents Rifle Sight

    Fiedler invents the first Refractor Rifle scope in Austria.
  • Maxim Machine Gun Created

    The creation of a weapon that began to revolutionize warfare.
  • Beginning of Spanish American War

    A prime example of America removing other Imperial influence from its side of the world.
  • Zeppelin Patented

    These rigged airships were the birth of aerial war
  • Maxim Patents the First Gun Suppressor

    This was the first legitimately used silencer for guns.
  • WWI Begins

    The first "Industrialized" War, believed at the time to be the war to end all wars.
  • WWI Ends

    "The Great War" finally ended.
  • Panzer (I and II) Finished Secretly

    Germany along with the Soviets secretly built these tanks at some point in the 1930's.
  • WWII Begins

    The second World War began despite that WWI was supposed to end all wars.
  • Napalm Invented

    Harvard Researchers invent the Flammable liquid Napalm.
  • WWII Ends

    Japan surrendered after being nuked twice.
  • Korean War

    A war to contain communism that technically isn't over.
  • Korean War Standstill

    An uneasy peace was made, and stands on fragile ground.
  • Vietnam War Begins

    A bloody conflict to contain communism began, despite its destiny to fail.
  • Vietnam War Ends

    Saigon Falls and the United States withdraws from the war.
  • Napalm Banned

    The UN Banns Napalm, the United States however ignores this ban occaisionally through usage of loopholes.
  • War in Afghanistan Begins

    A current war in which we fight the Taliban and the terror they spread.
  • War in Iraq (Occupation of Iraq)

    US troops invaded Iraq in search of Weapons of mass-destruction
  • Last B53 Nuke Dismantled

    With a blast radius of 2580 Square Kilometers this bomb is the most powerful US nuclear bomb that the public knows about.
  • End of the Iraq War

    President Obama withdrew troops from the area.