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College History Loomis

  • Start of The Great War

    Start of The Great War

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family are assassinated by a Serbian named Gavrilo Princip
  • War is Declared

    War is Declared

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
  • War Expands

    War Expands

    Germany declares war on Russia
  • War Expands

    War Expands

    Germany declares war of France
  • The UK Joins The Fight

    The UK Joins The Fight

    The United Kindom declares war on Germany
  • War Zone

    War Zone

    Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain
  • Verdun

    Verdun

    The Battle of Verdun begins
  • U.S Joins the War

    U.S Joins the War

    The United States declares war on Germany
  • Russia Leaves The War

    Russia Leaves The War

    Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk
  • The End of The War

    The End of The War

    Germany signs the armistice
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    Nationwide fear of communists, socialists, and anarchists
  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act

    Officialy established prohibition in the United States
  • Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

    Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

    Anarchists convicted guilty of murder without substantial evidence
  • Teapot Dome Affair

    Teapot Dome Affair

    A bribery incident that transferred the control of its oil feilds over to the Department of the Interior
  • National Origins Act

    National Origins Act

    Limit the annual rate of immigrants coming in to the United States
  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial

    A teacher that was arrested for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was found guilty and the judge fined him $100
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh

    First man to cross the Atlantic ocean
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover

    Elected to be the 31st President of the United States
  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie

    The first ever animated video
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam

    Communist party is established
  • Panama

    Panama

    Communist party is founded
  • Twinkies are invented

    Twinkies are invented

    Twinkies are invented
  • Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros.

    Releaced their first cartoons
  • Richard Drew

    Richard Drew

    Invented masking tape
  • Star-Spangled Banner

    Star-Spangled Banner

    Adopted as the USA national anthem
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    First American woman to win the Nobel Prize
  • Elvis

    Elvis

    Elvis Presley was born
  • Amelia Earhart

    Amelia Earhart

    Becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California
  • Loony Tunes

    Loony Tunes

    Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Loony Tunes character
  • Holland Surrenders

    Holland Surrenders

    Holland surrenders to Germany
  • Belgium Surrenders

    Belgium Surrenders

    Belgium surrenders to Germany
  • Germans enter Paris

    Germans enter Paris

    Germans invades Paris
  • Soviet Union renews pact with Germany

    Soviet Union renews pact with Germany

    Germany and the Soviet Union make the non aggression pact
  • United Stares at War

    United Stares at War

    Hitler declares war with the United States
  • Japan invades

    Japan invades

    Japan invades Philippines
  • Battle of Stalingrad Begins

    Battle of Stalingrad Begins

    Germany attacks Sttalingrad
  • Suicide

    Suicide

    Hitler committed suicide
  • End of the War

    End of the War

    Germany surrendered ending the war in Europe
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg war crimes trial began
  • Civil Rights Congress

    Civil Rights Congress

    The Civil Rights Congress Formed
  • Anti-Communism

    Anti-Communism

    US will not recognize communism
  • Withdraw from Iran

    Withdraw from Iran

    Truman demands Russia withdraw from Iran
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Truman announces the Truman Doctrine
  • African American Baseball Player

    African American Baseball Player

    First African American Pro Baseball Player
  • NATO

    NATO

    The NATO treaty is signed
  • Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong assumes power
  • Hydrogen Bomb

    Hydrogen Bomb

    United States will build the hydrogen bomb
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    North Korea invades South Korea
  • Dwight Eisenhower

    Dwight Eisenhower

    Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as President