Timeline Project By brent gass justin secord Jun 30, 1906 food adminastrtation google Sep 1, 1907 sinking of the Lusitania eyewitnesshistory.com Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and His Wife Sophie history.com Jul 28, 1914 WWI wikipedia Feb 8, 1917 war industries board established to regulate production in wwi wikipedia May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act wikipedia.com Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and sedition acts passed by Congress wikipedia Oct 25, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins about education Jan 1, 1918 worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 mil wikipedia Jan 8, 1918 14 Points Peace Plan wikipedia Nov 3, 1918 austria-hungary surrenders to the allies sparkenotes.com Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends ww1 eye witness to history Jun 28, 1919 signing of the treaty of versailles establishing the peace at the end of ww1 wikipedia Sep 1, 1919 Hitler comes to power wikipedia Jan 1, 1920 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to african workers history.com Oct 1, 1922 benito mussonlini appointed prime minister of italy wikipedia Dec 25, 1926 hirohito becomes emperor of japan wikipedia May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop translantic flight charleslindbergh.com Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected president wikipedia Oct 29, 1929 stock market crashes (Black Tuesday) Investinganswers.com Jan 1, 1930 Bank failures begin farminginthe1930's.com Jan 1, 1930 dust bowl wikipedia Jan 1, 1931 Boulder dam project begins wikipedia Jan 1, 1932 Hoover disbands the bonus army wikipedia May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight history.com Jan 1, 1933 end of prohibition britannica.com Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor Mar 17, 1933 civilian conversation corps history.com May 13, 1933 agricultrual adjustment act livinghistoryfarm.org Jan 1, 1934 congress creates the SEC investigator.gov Mar 1, 1935 congress passes the social security act ssa.gov Apr 8, 1935 works progress administration established pbs.org May 25, 1935 jesse owens wins four gold medals at olympics in germany olympics.org Jan 1, 1936 civil war in spain wikipedia May 3, 1937 hindenburg disaster airships.net Jul 9, 1937 japan conquers manchuria (http://www.johndclare.net/EL5.htm) Jul 22, 1937 japan invades northern china (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War) Oct 30, 1938 orson welles broadcasts the the war of the worlds (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation) Nov 9, 1938 kristallnacht (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201) Feb 23, 1939 germany invades poland (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland) Mar 15, 1939 hitler and stalin sign non aggression act (http://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact) Aug 23, 1939 hitler invades the soviet union (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164) Dec 4, 1939 germany invades poland britain and france declare war (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vocham.htm) Nov 22, 1940 japan, germany and italy sign the tripartite (http://www.britannica.com/topic/Tripartite-Pact) Feb 9, 1941 german general rommel surrenders in north africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel) Mar 22, 1941 lend lease act (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act) Dec 7, 1941 Japanses attack on Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor) Jan 16, 1942 WWII war production board created by roosevelt (http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/war-production-board.html) Feb 22, 1942 japanese internment camps begin (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation) Jun 7, 1942 battle of midway battle of midway Jun 3, 1944 first fireside chat by FDR (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-gives-first-fireside-chat) Jun 6, 1944 D Day Invasion (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day) Dec 16, 1944 battle of the bulge (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge) Feb 9, 1945 yalta conference alta conference Feb 19, 1945 iwo jima (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima) Apr 26, 1945 hitler sets up dachau (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/dachau) May 8, 1945 V-E day and V-J day (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day) Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki) Sep 2, 1945 seven year occupation of japan by united states wikipedia Oct 18, 1946 nuremburg war trial war trials