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America enters WWII
When the United States enters the war in 1941, it destroys the last remanents of the great depresion, and American unemployment decreases to below 10 Percent -
Franz Ferdinand assassination
nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire got shot to death with his wife. -
Europe descends into war
Austria declared war on Serbia, lighting the fuse that within a week would transform what Bismarck had called the Balkan powder keg into a Europe-wide explosion -
Britain declares war on Germany
On August 4th 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. It was a decision that is seen as the start of World War One. Britain, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had given Germany an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight of August 3rd. -
Farmenrs share of income Plumets
Farmers share of the mational drops to only 9 % -
First bank panic
The first back panic ensues causeing bankrupticies -
Hitler comer to power
Thanks to Germany's economic desperation, hitler was able to push his way to the top, and gain the people's love by turning the economy around. -
Franklin becomes president
Franklin D. Roosevelt turned around America's Unemployment rate, when he became president the unemployment rate was 25 percent, and in 1937, it had fallen to 14.3 percent, a dramatic difference. -
Germany recovers
Germany's war preparations and Heavy defecit spending finaly pulls Germany out of it's depresion -
roosevent reelcted
Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected for another term -
agriculural adjustment act
The agricultural adjustment act established a minimum wage and maximum work week -
Shattered Munich Pact
Even after Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain signed the Munich Pact, Germany broke the treaty and seized Czechoslovakia. -
world war II Begins
When World War II hit, it pulled the vast majority of the world out of the Great Depression through all of the government spending on the war. -
germany invades poland
Adolf Hitler wanted more land so he could expand his army and etc. to the Eastern part of the world. -
Germany invades
Germany invaded France, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Denmark and Norway. Later leading to success in all these countries except for Britain. -
Battle of britain
The Battle of Britain went from August to September. France had already surrendered to Germany, so Britain was left to fight Germany on its own. Britain pulled through and won -
Stanligrad
4 million German troops invaded Russia. After a couple months they retreited. About the next year, the Germans invaded again and after 3 long years of fighting the Russian's won even though millions of people were dead. -
attack of pearl harbor
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they thought that if they ruined most of the United States naval force, that America would not be able to take part in the war. -
battle of midway
This was a fight in the Pacific Ocean in the middle of all the lands. The japanese rolled over the Phillippines, Southeast Asia, and East Indies. This only lasted 4 days. It ended on June 7th. -
atomic bomb of hiroshima
President Truman ordered for the U.S. to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The atomic bomb killed thousands on impact and for many many years later it killed citizens because of radiation.
