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The archduke and his wife were shot and killed by a Serbian terrorist one day while driving through a parade when his limo took a turn on a side street where the terrorist was and where he was shot. -
The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo is widely considered the immediate trigger for the war.
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After the assassination of the Archduke Austrisa--Hungry declared war on serbia and World War 1 started. -
This declaration, following the assassination, set off a chain reaction of declarations of war as alliances were triggered.
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The armistice, signed at Compiègne, ended the fighting on the Western Front, although the war officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles. -
After the sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats and the Zimmerman telegraph where Germany told Mexico that if they joined the central powers that they would give them Texas and all of the land Mexico owned previously the U.S. declared war on the central powers. -
After the sinking of the Lusitainia by German U-boats and the Zimmerman telegraph, the U.S. declared war on Germany and the Central Powers.
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This treaty, signed between Russia and Germany, allowed Germany to focus its forces on the Western Front after Russia withdrew from the war. -
This treaty, signed between Russia and Germany, allowed Germany to focus its forces on the Western Front after Russia withdrew from the war.
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The armistice, signed at Compiègne, ended the fighting on the Western Front, although the war officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles.
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This treaty, signed by the Allied powers and Germany, officially ended World War I, imposing harsh terms on Germany, including territorial losses, disarmament, and reparations. -
The Roaring Twenties was also the decade that the Harlem Renaissance took place. The Harlem neighborhood in New York City became known. starting in the 1920s and moving into the 1930s -
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Despite promises from Herbert Hoover and other leaders, the Great Depression worsened. By 1930, 4 million Americans were looking for work, but nowhere had the financial stability for people. -
This Stock Market Crash was one of the leading factors of the Great Depression. The cause of the Crash was the increased use of credit loans and the investing of money people didn't have, and when the market crashed, people couldn't pay back their loans. -
October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday," is known as the worst day in stock market history. -
During the Great Depression, banks in the US were unstable due to a lack of regulation and risky loans made during the 1920s. -
Years of poor farming practices combined with severe drought turned the Great Plains into a Dust Bowl. Massive dust storms destroyed farms and forced thousands of families to abandon their homes and seek work elsewhere. -
The New Deal was a series of programs started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fix the Great Depression. -
In 1932, the country was in a depression. More than 20% of people were unemployed. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won the election and created the New Deal to help bring the country out of the depression. -
Hitler invades Poland and starts World War two. -
The Japanese surprise attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor and destroyed the entire fleet. -
A planned Attack to storm the coast of France and try to regain France and puch the Nazis out. -
The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which caused the complete total destruction of the cities and everything around thm. -
After the Atomic bombs were dropped, the Japenese realized that they would be destroyed by the allies and their weapon,s so they finally surrendered.