Terrorism History Timeline

Terrorism Timeline

Year	Terror groups	Terrorism	War	colonism	dictators	Coups	military rule / emergency rule	Weapons
Upto Now	Al-Qaeda; Afghanistan until 2001, Southeast Asia, Middle East, worldwide cells Osama bin Laden's network of Arabs who fought against the Soviet Union. Goal to establish a worldwide pan-Islamic Caliphate Targets “non-Islamic” regimes and U.S. citizens	1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan on 1st anniversary of Six Day War (June 6)	Gulf War. (1991)	German Colonial Wars in Africa (1903 - 1908)	Joseph Kabila Kabange (born June 4, 1971), known commonly as Joseph Kabila, became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the assassination of his father Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001.			1954: First US hydrogen bomb successfully tested. Long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles were developed by the US. The first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, is launched.