1914-

• World War 1 broke out. Wilson declared America neutral.
• Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife assassinated June 28.
•  Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia July 23 and declaration of war July 28.
• Germany declares war on Russia and France. Germany invades Belguim.
• Britian declares war on Germany.
• Austria declares war on Russia.
• Serbia and Montenegro declare war on Germany.
•  France and Britian declares war on Austria.
• Britian and Austria declares war on Belguim
• Russia declares war Turkey
• France and Britian declare war on Turkey

1915-

• Germany began use of submarines in 1915.
• Italy declares war on Austria-Hungarian  and Turkey
• British and French naval forces failed to force their way up the Dardenelles to take constantinople after Turkey entered, Allied to Australia and Germany.
• British and Australia and New Zealand troops, known as Anzacs, then launched a land attack on the forts of Gallipoli but met Turkish resistance and withdrew after eight months.
• The Lusitania was sunk by the Germans.

1916-

• Germany declares war on Portugal. Germany sends peace notes to allies.
• 1,500,000 tons-gas masks and steel helmets introduced in German Army.
• Italy declares war on Germany

1917-

• Germany announced on Jan 31, that it would sink all ships belligrant or neutral without warning in large war zone.
• Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany on Feb 3.
•  During March and April many American ships were sunk by submarines.
• The British intercepted a secret message from the German minister in Mexico, and it turned it over to the U.S. on February 24.
• In the year 1917, German submarines sank 6.5 million tons of Allied an American shipping while only 2.7 million were built.
• America entered the war.
• Germany withdrawal on Western Front. U.S and Cuba declared war on Germany. China declares war on Germany and Austria.
•  Germany and Russia armistice signed at Brestiltovsk.
• Starvation year in Germany

1918-

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What kind of kids are child soldiers? You and I are. Any kid is. Anyone who is angry, scared, easily manipulated, or any one who wants a gun. But kids who are poor and angry and wants revenge are definitely at risk to become a child soldier. The rest of the child soldiers are kidnapped and forced to be fighters. In the last fifteen years, ten thousand children have been abducted by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) around Gulu in northern Uganda.

Since 1998,  there have been  child soldiers in thirty six countries. Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six have been injured or permanently disabled, over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.

War affects every aspect of child development. Instead of going to school, or graduating high school, they have to go to war. They can be injured, uprooted from their home and communities, they can be subjected to physical abuse, as well as sexual exploitation. Typically, they are deprived of medical attention, shelter, and food.

But to our relief someone is here to help. The SOS Children works in many countries to help child soldiers.

1/13/11

SOS Children works in many countries to help Child Soldiers and other children affected by conflict. They have focus projects on Uganda child Soldiers and children in Palestine. Others include rehabilitation of child soldiers in Sudan, where SOS is providing counseling, family-tracing, education and support for for former child soldiers.

Ten years after the massacre in Rwanda, they are working to rebuild lives. Nine members of their community were murdered in the genocide there. Another was forced to become a child soldier, lost his leg to a land-mine.

"War violates every right of a child- the right to live, the right to be with a family and nurtured and respected",(Grace Machel, UN, 1996)

In West Bank in Palestine, children witness explosions, the shelling (shooting) of houses, waves of arrests, the constant presence of militia and civil violence, and many horrific injuries and deaths to family and friends. They are subject to curfews and are afraid just to play in the street and be children. In conflict situations, little time and support is available for children to mourn their loses or to gain an understanding of the situation. They are forced to stay in isolation, although most of the the determining factor contributing to a childs recovery is the opportunity for expression, attachment and trust that comes from a stable, caring, and nurturing relationship with an adult.

In the Palestinian territories there are pronounced symptoms of psychological strain. Sixty percent of these children required urgent and psychological help. SOS Children ran a mobile psychological support center in the West Bank since March 2003. The therapy center provides psychotherapeutic and medical support, serving around 2,500 children a year. It offers house visits, psychological tests and support, play and speech therapy, and physiotherapy. SOS Children has been working in Palestine territories since 1966.

In 1973, the SOS Children Village in Bethlehem was officially opened. Thirty orphans were able to move into their new homes. The SOS Children site in Bethlehem is situated near the Good Shepard Feild. It consists of ten family houses, a Village Directors house, a guest house, and a large community house with offices, a recreation room, a laundry room, and infirmary, a workshop for repairs, and a village shop. In 1997, the SOS site was extended, and a primary school was opened in 1999-2000.

Children in Uganda

Education, health care and employment are human rights. Poverty, illness, and the political unrest in the area, the number of children without the support of their natural family is increasing. SOS Children is constantly developing its approach to child care. Their "Family Strengthening Programmes" and SOS Social Centers is to respond realistically and effectively to the situation of orphans, vulnerable children and their families, and to prevent child abandonment.

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My project is about people taking children and using them as soldiers for war. They can be kidnapped and held against their will and some or them can be used for sexual purposes and marriage for the soldiers.Most often their families are killed and they have no where to go. Their towns are cleared and everyone in it is killed. My project is going to tell where this is happening, how it is happening, and why.

11/30/11 

Child Soldiers are everywhere. They are not in the U.S, but we can still fight for these kids. Ismael Beah is a boy who was a child soldier. They not only wiped out his whole town, he doesn't know if his family is alive or dead. He had to walk through his town and see all the people he knew dead, or he didn't see them at all. He had come back from visiting his grandma and found this...Scene. He didn't know it was coming. When he went to the next town, people were driving, walking, and running with blood coming from them, from some one they were holding, or coming with. The first time Ismael saw a man cry was that day. A man was driving a van into that town. He was speeding and swerving all over. They saw blood leaking from the van, so they went to help. The man had his family with him. His family was dead, he was the only one alive. He fell to his knees and burst into sobs. Ismael had felt that mans cries. He had never thought it was real before. Now he knew the truth.