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Austrian heir assasinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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Germany supports Austria-Hungary, declared war on Russia.
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Germany uses the Schlieffen Plan to invade Belguim.
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Allies of Belguim halt Germany at the Maine River in France.
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Germany sinks Lusitania with a U-boat.
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Americans were outraged by the Germans. They lost 128 Americans.
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At 1 O'clock in the morning, the United States House of Representatives were debating on President Wilson's request for war against Germany.
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On first day, the British suffered 60,000 casualties
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Congress passes the Selective Service Act.
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The American Expeditionary Force, that was led by General John J. Pershing,evolves into a combat - tested army.
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Russia pulls out of war and the Germans shift from the eastern front to the western front of France.
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The British formed a bomber force of 22,000 planes to attack German weapon factories.
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Alvin York killed 25 and captured 132 Germans.
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Austria - Hungary surrendered to the Allies.
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German sailors mutinied agaisnt government authority.
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Solcialist leaders in the capital of Berlin established a German republic.
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Germany agreed to end the war and signed the armisitce.
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24 million men registered under the act and almost 3 million were called up.
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Eighteenth Amendment that was put into effect to make the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
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President Warren G.Harding invited several of the major powers to Washington Naval Confrence after World War I.
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Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood Federation of America) and fought for rights of physicians to give information to patients on birth control.
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Fordney - McCumber Tariff was adopted by America. It raised taxes on U.S. imports 60%.
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Tennesse made first law making it illegal to teach evolution.
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Landmark collection of stories by many young African - American writers.
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The Scopes trial started to defend the teachings of evolution. Clarence Darrow was hired to defend John T. Scopes. William Jennings Bryan was against evolution.
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Henry Ford makes trimotor airplane.
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Inaugurated the first transatlantic pansenger flights.
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Was a single - engine plane and produced by the Lockheed Company. First that flew was the "Golden Eagle".
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"The Jazz Singer" was the first major movie with sound
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First underwater tunnel designed for mother vehicles. It was to connect New York, Jersey, and New Jersey.
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Fifteen countries signed it. Renounced war as national policy. Did not provide means of enforcement.
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Was Walt Disney's first animated film with sound.
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First cloverleaf intersection in New Jersey.
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Congress passes Hawley - Smoot Tarrif and made unemployment worse in industries no longer exporting goods to Europe. It was designed to protect American farmers and companies from foreign comepetition.
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Congress approves Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation. RFC authorized $2 billion for emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies, railroads, other large businesses.
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President Hoover signs the Federal Home Loan Bank Act . This lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance and avoid foreclosure.
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World War I veterans and their familes marched in Washingto, D.C. demanding for bonus payments for their service. Originally called the Bonus Expeditionary Force; now known as the Bonus Army.
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Congress passes more than 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation. Expanded federal government's role in nation's economy
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The Civilian Conservation Corps provided work for young men from the ages 18 to 25. Work in building roads, developing parks, planting trees, helping in soil - erosion and flood - control projects.
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Home Owners Loan Corporation provides government loans to homeowners who are threatened by foreclosure.
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Congress enacts the National Industrial Recovery Act. This provideds money to states to create jobs in construction of schools and other community buidlings.
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President Roosevelt establishes The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This provided federal insurance for individual bank accounts of up to $5,000.
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Congress passes the Glass - Steagall Act. This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president.
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Securities and Exchange Commission was created by Congress to regulate the stock market. One goal was to prevent people with inside information about companies from ruining the stock market for their own gain.
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Also known as the "Wheeler -Howard Act" or "Indian New Deal". Helped restore reservation tribal lands for Native Americans. Commissioner of Indian affairs, John Collier, hleped create this Act.
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Dust storm caused by drought and over plowed topsoil, 500,000 Americans left homeless, over 350 houses had to be torn down. Occurred in Kansas, Oklahoma,Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado
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Nationall Youth Administration provided education, jobs, counseling and student aid to high school, collge, and graduate students
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African Americans decided that they needed to fight for and improve their living conditions that they believed the New Deal ignored. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was organzed to protect the rights of tenant farmers and sharcroppers, both races.
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Hitler launches surprise invasion on both Denmark and Norway. He said that it was "to protect freedom and independence." He actually did it to to build bases along the coasts to attack Great Britian. Denmark then surrenders.
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The Battle of Britian begins and Germany bombs Britian with Luftwaffe tactics for one year. London Blitz was 40 days of nonstop bombing against London.
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Is passed by Congress and gives President Franklin Roosevelt the right to sell, transfer, and lease war goods to Allied Powers. This ends America's Neutraility.
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Japan bombed the largest US naval base known as Pearl Harbor and killing an overal amount of 2,350 people
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a speech to Congress to request their support in declaring war against Japan. It ends up moving 99% people to want to fight Japan.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt creats the War Production Board to coordinate momilzation.
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers partake in the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.
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Hitler's Nazis develop a method for exterminationg Jews at concentration camps
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Hitler wanted Soviet oil fields and wipe out Stalingrad. Luftwaffe was used bombing over the Volga and Stalingrad.
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107,000 troops landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa; chased the Afrika Korps.
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More than 230,000 German soldiers died in the Battle of Stalingrad. Hitler and his German troops surrender
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After months the of nonstop fighting, Afrika Korps surrender.
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Sicily is captured and King Victor Emmanuel III summoned Mussolini, stripped him of his power, and had him arrested.
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Germay tried to stop the Allied Powers less than 40 miles away from Rome. The battle "Bloody Anzio" lasted four months. 25,000 Allied, 30,000 Axis casualties
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Operation Overlord; "D-Day"; Dwight D Eisenhower launched operation to fight Nazi Germany in Normandy, France. The beaches that they used were Utah, Omaha, Gold, and Sword.
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Allied Powers freed France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
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President Roosevelt dies having a stroke and Vice President Harry S. Truman became President.
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Allies celebrated the end of the war with Europe.
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President Richard Nixon announced on television that American forces invaeded Cambodia.
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The Protests at Kent State University started.
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The Revise Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) school was set on fire by student protestors.
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National Guard opened fire on the Kent State Campus killing four and wounding nine student protestors.
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The Watergate Scandal began with the break in of this hotel. During the Preidental Campaign, documents were stolen and the room was illegally wiretapped.
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Nixon was exposed as to being involed with the Watergate break in and ended up resigning.
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Cambodia was invaded by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot became a Communist Dictator.
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After Pol Pot became the dictator of Cambodia, Cambodian Genocide began to take place.
