Unit 12 Timeline

By Yuheiry

  • Wright brother fly the first airplane

    X. Humans Develop Wings
    a. Gasoline engines provided the power that enabled humans to fly. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight, lasting 12 seconds and 120 feet.
    b. After the success of airplanes in WWI, private companies began to operate passenger airlines with airmail contracts.

  • Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare

    I. War Act by Germany
    a. To defend American interest short of war, the president asked congress for authority to arm American merchant ships

  • Zimmerman Note

    Secret German message to Mexico (intercepted by the US) which offered to return to Mexico the lands it lost in the Mexican-American War.

  • US enters WWI

    d. This idealistic motto worked brilliantly, but with the new American
    zeal came the loss of Wilson’s earlier motto, “peace
    without victory.”

  • Espionage Act

    Law which punished people for aiding the enemy or refusing military duty during World War 1

  • Selective Service Act

    1. Selective Service Act (1917) This Act required all men between 21-30 years to register for the military. Each received a number, and draftees were chosen like a lottery. In contrast to the Union's civil war conscription, there was no way for men to "opt out" of this draft

  • Wilson proposes 14 points

    A list of foreign policy goals which Woodrow Wilson hoped to achieve in the aftermath of World War I

  • Sedition Act of 1918

    Added to Espionage Act, this act deemed "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution-- the reason why Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned.

  • Armisrice ends WWI

    a. At 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Germans
    laid down their arms in armistice after overthrowing their Kaiser in
    hopes that they could get a peace based on the Fourteen Points.
    i. This “Armistice Day” later became “Veterans’ Day.”

  • Wilson's pro-league tour and collapse

    XVIII. However, at home in America, the Republicans proclaimed that they
    would not pass the treaty, since to them, it would be unwise to turn
    American decision over to a group of foreign nations (the League of
    Nations). Opponents of the Versailles Treaty reasoned that America
    should stay out of such an international group and decide her decisions
    on her own.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty that ended World War I; it was much harder on Germany than Wilson wanted but not as punitive as France and England desired. It was harsh enough, however, to set stage for Hitler's rise of power in Germany in 1930s.

  • 18th admendment

    Constitutional amendment that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol.

  • Volstead Act

    1. Farmers looked for relief, and the Capper-Volstead Act, which exempted farmers’ marketing cooperatives from antitrust prosecution, and the McNary-Haugen Bill, which sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad, helped a little.
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    Red scare

    b. The "red scare" of 1919-1920 resulted in a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was suspect. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmerwas chosen to round up immigrants who were in question.

  • Jazz Age

    Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime.

  • Radio broadcast

    b. In the 1920s, the first voice-carrying radio broadcasts reached audiences. While automobiles were luring Americans away from the home, the radio was luring them back. Educationally and culturally, the radio also made a significant contribution

  • Emergency Quota Act of 1921

    1. Emergency Quota Act of 1921 1921 legislation that limited immigration to 3% of the people of their nationality living in the US in 1910.

  • Teapot Scandal

    1. The Teapot Dome Scandal was the most shocking of all. • Albert B. Fall leased land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, to oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, but not until Fall had received a “loan” (actually a bribe) of $100,000 from Doheny and about three times that amount from Sinclair.

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    1. Immigration Act of 1924 This was passed in 1924--cut quotas for foreigners from 3 % to 2% of the total number of immigrants in 1890--purpose was to freeze America's existing racial composition --prevented Japanese from immigrating, causing outrage in Japan.

  • Coolidge assume presidency

    1. Coolidge was chosen by the Republicans again in 1924, while Democrats nominated John W. Davis after 102 ballots in Madison Square Garden. • The Democrats also voted by one vote NOT to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.

  • The great gatsby by Fittzgerald

  • RFC established

    established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), which became
    a government lending bank. This was a large step for Hoover away from
    laissez faire policies and toward policies the Democrats (FDR) would
    later employ.

  • Norris-la Guardia Anti-Junction Act

    , Congress passed the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injection Act,
    which outlawed anti-union contracts and forbade the federal courts to
    issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing
    (this was good for unions).