Timeline Project: Great Depression Era

By LydiaMackie
  • Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African Americans

    Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African Americans

  • Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

    Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

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    WWI

    World War I Link
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

  • The Batte of Verdun begins

  • Russia withdraws from WWI

  • Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

    Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

  • Russian Communist Revolution begins

    Russian Communist Revolution begins

  • Passage of the Selective Service Act

  • First Pulitzer prizes are awarded

  • Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress

  • War Industries Board established to regulate productin in WWI

  • Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

    Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

  • Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

  • National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

    National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

  • Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

  • Armistic ends World War I

  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

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    Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

    <ahref='http://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhProhibition.php' >The Prohibition Era</a> link

  • Irish Independence

  • Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy

  • Mussolini's March on Rome

  • Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

    Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

  • Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

    Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

  • Discovery of Penicilin

  • Herbert Hoover elected president

    Herbert Hoover elected president

  • Bank failures begin

  • Stock Market crashes-Black Tuesday

    Stock Market crashes-Black Tuesday

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    Dust Bowl

    Video link
  • Boulder Dam Project begins

    Boulder Dam Project begins

  • Japan invades Northern China

  • Japan conquers Manchuria

  • Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

    Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

  • FDR elected President 1

  • Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

    Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

  • Hitler sets up Dachau

    Beginning of Dachau link

  • Civilian Conservation Corps Starts

  • Hitler comes to power in Germany 1

    Chancellor
  • First Fireside Chat by FDR

    First Fireside Chat by FDR

    Take a gander link

  • Congress creates the SEC

  • Hitler becomes Fuhrer

  • The Long March

  • Works Progress Administration established

  • Congress passes the Social Security Act

  • FDR elected President 2

    FDR elected President 2

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    Civil War in Spain

    More info link

  • Jesse Owens wins four gold medals

  • Hindenburg Disaster

    Watch here link

  • Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

  • Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

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    WWII

    World War II link

  • Germany invades Poland, Britian, and France declare War

  • FDR elected President 3

  • Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

  • Lend Lease Act

  • Hitler invades the Soviet Union

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Civilian Conservation Corps ends

  • WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt

  • German General Rommel Surrenders in North Africa

    German General Rommel Surrenders in North Africa

  • Japanese Internment Camps begin

    Japanese Internment Camps begin

  • Bataan Death March

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    Battle of Midway

  • Operation Husky

  • FDR elected President 4

  • D-Day Invasion

    D-Day Invasion

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    Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge link
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

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    Seven year Occupation of Japan by the United States

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    Yalta Conference

  • Hitler found dead

  • V-E Day and V-J Day

    V-E Day and V-J Day

    Victory in Europe and Victory in Japan
  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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    Nuremburg War Trials

    Crime Trials link