Chapter 15: Years of Crisis-Dustin Graber

Treaty of Versailles Signed

Jun 28, 1919

Start of prohibition

Jan 17, 1920

Women suffrage amendment raitified

Aug 18, 1920

After 70 years of women suffragist struggles, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land.
The significance of this is how it shaped the role of women throughout the U.S to this day. It gave them the importance and equality that they need and they deserve in the world. Women today are treated equally and have respect because of this event.

League of Nations Instituted

Nov 10, 1920

In an act to promote peace in the League of Nations was established. The League of Nations formally comes into being after being ratified by 42 countries, and has its first meeting in November of 1920 without the US involved.
The League of Nations helps to dissolve many minor disputes among different countries, which could have led to bigger issues among them and possibly changed the relationships among them today, resulting in a different world than we know.

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Sep 3, 1928

Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London, Alexander Fleming, came back from the holiday to look through petri dishes of Staphylococcus which causes boils on the throat and noticed that one of the dishes that had dotted colonies had the zone around the mold inside of it cleared. These colonies were later to be known as penicillin.
This discovery led us to the how different medicine is used around the world and how antibiotics save peoples lives and help heal them day after day.

Black Tuesday

Oct 29, 1929

At a time where stock prices were going up everyone was spending their money and life savings on stocks until October 29th 1929, “Black Tuesday”, when the stock market plummeted to the lowest they have ever been and sent the United States into a great depression.
This event is significant because many people lost their life savings stock market. The amount was so large that it sent the United States into the worst economic time period that it has ever gone through, knows as the great depression.

Start of Gandhi's salt March

Mar 12, 1930

An act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India. During the march, thousands of Gandhi's follower followed him from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea coast.
This event is significant because Gandhi was such a influential man on how India's leadership and rule was changed, and having this march led them to get granted the independence they were fighting for in 1947.

Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler channeled popular discontent with the post-war Wiemar government into support for his fledgling Nazi party. In an election held in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 governmental seats. From this, on January 30th, 1933 Hitler gets named Chancellor of Germany.
Hitler being crowned Chancellor marked a crucial turning point for not only Germany, but the world all together. This was the start of Hitler in his efforts to make Germany a world power, which eventually led to WWII

The emergency banking act is passed

Mar 9, 1933

Hitler becomes President of Germany

Aug 19, 1934

Munich Agreement

Sep 29, 1938

German Invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939