Timeline Before and After Diary of Ann Frank

By Edward Clark

  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

  • Golden Gate Bridge

    Golden Gate Bridge

  • Hindenburg Disaster

    Hindenburg Disaster

  • Nazi Germany invades Poland; WWII begins

    Nazi Germany invades Poland; WWII begins

  • First fully automatic transmission

    First fully automatic transmission

  • Alien Registration Act

    Alien Registration Act

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Casablanca released

    Casablanca released

  • D-Day

    D-Day

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected

    Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Diary of Anne Frank published/copyrighted

    Diary of Anne Frank published/copyrighted

  • Soviet Union Tests its first atomic bomb

    Soviet Union Tests its first atomic bomb

  • Germany divided into East and West Germany

    Germany divided into East and West Germany

  • Korean War begins

    Korean War begins

  • Colored TV introduced

    Colored TV introduced

  • Trumman signs peace treaty with Japan; offcially ends WWII

    Trumman signs peace treaty with Japan; offcially ends WWII

  • Car seatbelts introduced

    Car seatbelts introduced

  • DNA discovered

    DNA discovered

  • Disneyland Opens

    Disneyland Opens

  • Dr. Seuess Published The Cat in the Hat

    Dr. Seuess Published The Cat in the Hat