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first powered flight

Nov 17, 1903

Henry Ford Opens His Assembly Lines to African American Workers

Jan 1, 1913

http://corporate.ford.com/careers/diversity/diversity-history-440p?releaseId=1244754317559&ccode=US

Richard nixon born

Jan 9, 1913

Assassination of the Arch duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated

WW1

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Dodge founded

Jan 1, 1915

Austria-Hungary Surrenders to Allies

Apr 1, 1915

http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWaustriaA.htm

Sinking of the lusitania

May 7, 1915

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm

boeing founded

Jul 15, 1916

Russian Communist Recolution Begins

Mar 8, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution

passage of the selective act

May 8, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917

Espionage act of 1917

Jun 15, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

War Industries Board created

Jul 28, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board

Food Administration Created

Aug 10, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration

Russia withdraws from WWI

Oct 1, 1917

http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_1_1917.htm

Russia withdraws from the war

Nov 5, 1917

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml

Worldwide flu epidemic

Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 1, 1920

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

President Wilson Presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan to Congress

Jan 8, 1918

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points

Nationa War Labor Board Established

Apr 8, 1918

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Labor_Board

sedation act of 1918

May 16, 1918

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

Armistic ends WWI

Nov 11, 1918

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/armistice.htm

Treaty of Versailles signed

Jun 28, 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles

Prohibition

Period: Jan 17, 1920 to Dec 5, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States#Repeal

Benito Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Oct 31, 1922

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

TWA founded

Jan 1, 1925

First television created

Jan 1, 1926

Hirohito Becomes Emporer of Japan

Dec 25, 1926

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito

Charles Lindbergh makes first transatlantic flight

May 20, 1927

http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp

Amelia Earhart Crosses The Atlantic in Solo Floght

Jun 17, 1928

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/earhart/aa_earhart_atlantic_1.html

Herbert Hoover Elected as President

Mar 4, 1929

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States#Repeal

hawaii became a state

Aug 21, 1929

Black Tuesday

Oct 29, 1929

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

Hoover Dam Construction Starts

Jan 1, 1931

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

Japan Conguers Manchuria

Feb 27, 1932

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria

Hoover Disbands Bonus Army

Jul 28, 1932

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

Hitler comes to power in Germany

Nov 19, 1932

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671

Hitler Sets up Dachau

Jan 1, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

Bank failures start

Jan 1, 1933

http://thegreatdepressioncauses.com/facts/facts-banks/

FDR Elevted first term

Mar 4, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#Fourth_term_and_death.2C_1945

First Fireside Chat by FDR

Mar 12, 1933

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-broadcasts-first-fireside-chat

Civilian Conservation Corps

Mar 31, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

Agricultural Adjustment Act

May 12, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act

Dust Bowl

Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1940

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

Congress Creates SEC

Jun 6, 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission

Works Progress Administration Established

Apr 8, 1935

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

Congress Passes Social Security act

Aug 14, 1935

http://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html

Civil War in Spain

Period: Jul 18, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

Aug 9, 1936

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal

FDR Term 2

Jan 1, 1937

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#Fourth_term_and_death.2C_1945

Hindenburg disaster

May 6, 1937

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster

Japan Invades Northern China

Jul 7, 1937

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

Orson Wells Brodcasts War of the Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

Kyrstallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

Hitler and Stalin sign a Non Aggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/nonaggression.htm

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland

France Declares War on Germany

Nov 3, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

Sep 24, 1940

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact

FDR Term 3

Jan 1, 1941

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#Fourth_term_and_death.2C_1945

Lend Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

Hitler Invades Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa

Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor WWII

Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Sep 2, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

WW2 War Production Board Created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1942

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board

Japanese Internment Camps Begin

Feb 19, 1942

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

May 13, 1943

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#End_of_Africa_campaigns

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge

FDR Term 4

Jan 1, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#Fourth_term_and_death.2C_1945

Seven Year Occupation of Japan by the United States

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1952

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction</a>

Yalta Conference

Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/651424/Yalta-Conference

Iwo Jima

Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

Victory in England Day

May 8, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day

Bombing on Heroshima

Aug 6, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Nuremburg war trials

Period: Aug 8, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007722

Bombing on Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Victory in Japan Day

Aug 15, 1945

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/15/newsid_3581000/3581971.stm

Grumman HU-16 Albatross first flight

Oct 24, 1947

spruce goose first flight

Nov 2, 1947

mcdonalds founded

Apr 15, 1955

walmart founded

Jan 1, 1962

JFK Shot

Nov 2, 1963