1918 through 1939

By Ciera Johnson

  • Hara Takashi

    Hara Takashi was a Japanese politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Japan from 29 September 1918 to 4 November 1921. A protégé of Saionji and a major influence in the pre-war Seiyokai cabinets, had become the first commoner to sever as prime minister for Japan.

  • The Eighteenth Amendment

    The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States and its possessions. Againts common belief, it did not prohibit the purchase or consumption of alcohol. The Eighteenth Amendment was later repealed by the Twentyfirst Amenment, on February 20, 1933. The Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment in the US to have been repealed.

  • The Treaty of Versilles

    The Treaty of Versilles
    The Treaty of Versailles was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war, that basicaly blamed Germany for the war. The Allied Powers, or the "Big Three", were David Llyod George of Great Britian, Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of America. Representing Germany was Friedrich Ebert.

  • Ireland Act

    The Government of Ireland Act 1920 was the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which partitioned Ireland.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. In total, 31 people were killed: fourteen British, fourteen Irish civilians and three republican prisoners.

  • NEP

    Economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism.

  • Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid

    Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson compant when he invented the band-aid in 1921. He invented them to protect his wife's fingers because she was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food. His boss, James Johnson, saw Earle Dickson's invention and decided to manufacture band-aids to the public

  • The Quota Act

    The Quota Act was meant to keep the number of immagrants down in America, to 350,000 about people. It was signed by Congress putting it in action in 1921.

  • The 34th Presidential Election

    The inauguration of Warren G. Harding took place on March 4, 1921, marking the beginning of his tenure as the 29th President of the United States and Calvin Coolidge's tenure as Vice President.

  • Chamber of Deputies

    In the elections of May 1921, 35 fascists, including Mussolini, were elected to the Chamber of Deputies, representing about 250,000 official party members drawn mostly from the lower middle class.

  • Benito Mussolini

    The Fascists named Benito Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy.

  • The Ruhr Crisis

    The Ruhr, was an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The French and Belgium troops (Allied Forces) took the town from the Germans in compensation for their inabillity to pay their debt.

  • Inflation at its Highest

    They money had by the fall of 1923 lost almost all of its value. Workers demand to be paid twice a day, so they could use the money beore its value has further deteriorated.

  • Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.

    Hitler attempted to seize control of Germany. The Beer Hall Putsch is defeated by police and army units. Adolf Hitler, Ernst Rohm and others are arrested.

  • Matteitti Was Murdered

    Fascists had been fighting with the Socialist and Communist party but on this day they murdered the Socialist leader Metteitti. Five years later Italy had only the Fascist party.

  • Soviet Union Flag

    Endorsed by the Constitution of the USSR in 1924, the State Emblem of the Soviet Union, The hammer and sickle itself, originate from the unique Russian unity of the peasants (the sickle) with the workers (the hammer) who together formed the Soviet Russian state.

  • The 35th President Inauguration

    Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th U.S. President on March 4, 1925 in the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC.

  • John Baird Creates The First Television

    created the first televised pictures of objects in motion (1924), the first televised human face (1925) and a year later he televised the first moving object image at the Royal Institution in London.

  • "Mein Kampf" Published

    Hitler's Book, "Mein Kampf" is published. This book is about Hitler's youth, early days in the Nazi Party, his future plans for Germany, and ideas on politics and race.

  • Founding of Hitler Youth

    The first Nazi youth organization It was disbanded with Hitler‘s arrest following the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. It founded in 1926, though its roots stretched back a few years.

  • Communist Party in Japan

    By 1926 the Japan Communist Party had been forced underground

  • Germany Joins the League of Nations

    The League of Nations was created by the Paris Peace Conference in April, 1919. In 1926, Germany joined the League demonstrating its move out of economic depression and toward normal diplomatic status.

  • Great Britains Economic depression

    In 1926 the country suffered a general strike. Severe economic stress increased during the worldwide economic depression.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

    They were two Italian men in America who were sentenced to death by Electric Chair over a suspected murder. They were victims of the racism and poor treatment of immagrants of the time.

  • 1st Movie with Dialogue

    Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first Hollywood film to incorporate both sound and dialogue.

  • Future Farmers of America Created

    FFA was established in Kansas City, MO. The First National Convention was held, with 33 delegates from 18 states attended.

  • Germany Annexed Austria

    Hitler demanded that Austrian officials accept annexation by Germany. Many people is Austria had already supported Hilter and the Nazi Party. Austria knew that Germany would take it by force, and that the people supported the unnification with Germany.

  • The Effects of Wall Street

    Major effects the United States took from the Wall Street Crash:
    - 12 Million people were unemployed
    - 12,000 peeople unemployed every day
    - 1 out of 20 farmers evicted
    - 1616 banks gone bank rupt
    - 20,000 companies bankrupt

  • Wall Street Crash "Black Tuesday"

    "Black Tuesday" was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941.

  • Scotch Tape is Invented

    An American inventer, Richard G. Drew, invented the adhesive material later developed into the consumer product known as Scotch Tape.

  • Mickey Mouse

    In 1930, Mickey Mouse makes his first ever appearence in his cartoon. His first movie was Steamboat Willie.

  • The FM Radio

    Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He invented a method of receiving high-frequency oscillations (FM Radio), part of every radio and television today.

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler became chancellor of Germay. He gained many supporters through his speeches, promising the people to rebuild Germany into a great empire. After Hitler became chancellor, he crushed his opponets in order to keep his position.

  • The New Third Reich Ruler

    The Nazi party is now ruled by Adolf Hitler controlled the entire government as leader with all power in his hands.

  • Japan withdraws from the League of Nations

    The League of Nations were angry at Japan's aggressive actions in Manchuria so Japan withdrew from the league of nations

  • 21st Amendment Ratified

    The 21st Amendment was ratified, repealing the 18th amendment. This lifted the ban on sale, manufacture, and transportation of alchohol.

  • Cat Eyes Invented

    A British man, Percy Shaw invented the road reflectors known as cat eyes.

  • Rhineland

    Hitler had placed forces in Rhineland. This was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles, becasue it was a demilitarised zone, but France and Britian decided not to take any action against Germany.

  • Korekiyo Takahashi

    Korekiyo Takahashi is called "Japanese Keynes." He adopted Keynesian policies even before John Maynard Keynes wrote the famous General Theory in 1936

  • The Great Plurge in Soviet Union

    The "Great Purge" swept the Soviet Union in 1937. The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1936–1938.

  • Berlin Olypics

    Hitler supervising the summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. THe Nazi party highly supported sports in Germany, and Germans were known for being superb in sports. Hitler states that Blacks and Jews should not be allowed to participate.

  • Jessie Owens at the Olympics

    Jessie Owens was a black man who dominated the track and field by winning 4 gold medals embarassing Hitler.

  • Jet Engine

    Sir Frank Whittle invents the Jet engine.

  • Prime Minister, 1937

    Neville Chamerlain becomes Prime Minister of Great Britian.

  • Labor Laws in Soviet Union

    In contrast, the 1938 legislation, which introduced labor books, followed by major revisions of the labor law, were enforced.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Adolf Hitler wanted more land, especially in the east, to expand Germany according to the Nazi policy of lebensraum. The result of Hitler invading was WWII.