WWI-Great Depression-WWII By Mackenzie Feit Aug 10, 1874 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover u-s-history.com Jul 29, 1883 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy history.com Sep 29, 1913 Inventor Rudolf Diesel vanishes history.com Nov 7, 1913 French novelist Albert Camus is born history.com Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers history.com Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie history.com Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania history.com Nov 7, 1916 Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman history.com Jan 1, 1917 War industries board established to regulate production WWI study.com May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act history.com Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and sedition acts passed by congress history.com Nov 6, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins history.com Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Point Peace Plan history.com Mar 3, 1918 Russia withdraws from WWI history.com Sep 29, 1918 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the allies spartcus-educational.com Sep 29, 1918 Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line history.com Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends World War 1 history.com Dec 28, 1918 worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million virus.standford.edu Jan 29, 1919 Passage of Prohibition history.com Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI history.com Period: Jan 29, 1920 to Dec 5, 1933 end of Prohibition http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/prohibition-ends May 9, 1920 Hitler comes to power in Germany britannica.com May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight history.com Sep 1, 1928 Robert Pirsig is born history.com Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected president history.com Oct 9, 1929 Bank failures begin history.com Oct 29, 1929 The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday" history.com Oct 29, 1929 Congress creates the SEC history.com Jan 1, 1931 Japan invades Northern China history.co.uk Sep 18, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria mytholyoke.edu May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight history.com Jul 5, 1932 Hoover disbands the Bonus Army ushitory.org Nov 8, 1932 FDR elected President once bitannica.com Jan 1, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act livinghistoryfarm.org Mar 8, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps history.com Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR history.com Mar 22, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau history.com Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1937 Dust Bowl history.com Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration established history.com Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act ssa.gov Sep 30, 1935 Boulder Dam Project begins history.com Jul 18, 1936 Civil War in Spain history.com Aug 9, 1936 Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany history.com Nov 3, 1936 FDR elected President twice learning.blogs.nytimes.com May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster history.com Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds history.com Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnatch (night of the falling glass)- Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods ushmm.org Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact history.com Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland history.com Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII history.com Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare War history.com Jul 18, 1940 FDR elected President three times history.com Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact history.com Nov 7, 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses history.com Jan 1, 1941 German General Rommel surrenders in North America history.com Mar 1, 1941 Lend Lease Act history.com Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union history.com Sep 29, 1941 Babi Yar massacre begins history.com Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor- U.S. enters WWII history.com Jan 2, 1942 National War Labor Board established by woodrow wilson history.com Jun 7, 1942 Battle of Midway history.com Sep 29, 1942 JFK thanks Clare Booth Luce for good-luck coin history.com Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion history.com Nov 7, 1944 FDR elected President four times history.com Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge history.com Jan 1, 1945 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt conservapedia.com Jan 1, 1945 Japanese Internment Camps begin history.com Jan 1, 1945 Nuremburg War trials history.com Jan 1, 1945 Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States history.state.gov Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference history.com Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima history.com May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe history.com Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki history.com Aug 15, 1945 Victory in Japan history.com Sep 29, 1953 Russians want the American dream history.com Sep 29, 1957 Trains collide in Pakistan history.com Nov 7, 1957 Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters history.com Jan 7, 1989 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan history.com
