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He was assassinaion. Started World War 1
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An American coorespondent described the first major refugee crisis of the 20th century.
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Gremans stop Russian advanced.
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Allies stop German advanced on Paris.
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Allied forces defeated in bid to establish his supply route to Russia.
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Germans used chemical weapons for the first time.
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Germany responded to the British blockade with a counterblockade by U-boats.
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He launches a generate support for Preparedness and the Continental Army with three speeches in New York.
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The French hold the line in the longest battle of the war.
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Disastrous British offensive.
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The Democrats renominated Wilson,and the Republicans renominated Surpreme Court Justice Charles Even Hughes.
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Congress passed the resolution.
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The Germans ignored Wilsons call for peace. Germanys leaders hope to defeat Britian by using unresricted submarine warfare.
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Congress passed the selective service act.
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United States launched 95 ships.
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Kaiser gave up the throne.
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6,000 people were arrested and held without trial.
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Prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol
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Manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was outlawed.
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Revolutionanies in Russia over threw the czanst regime.
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Murdered two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
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Agreed to retire as part of a peace agreement with the new interim president of Mexico, Adolfo De la Huerta.
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Granted women the right to vote in the United States.
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This system established the maximum number of people who could enter the United Statesfrom each foregin country.
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Harding died suddenly from a heart attack or stroke.
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Reached 4.5 million.
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Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was giving a speech whena bullet almost ended his life.
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Virginia Rappe died from peritonitis, caused by a ruptured blatter, and Arbuckle was to blame.
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He hit his 60th home run in a single season, making a new record that lasted for 34 years.
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The first movie that included dialogue and music on the filmstrip itself.
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The invention of the first successful bubble gum is credited to Walter Diemer.
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Seven men were gunned down in cold blood in a garage in Chicago
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Jannings was handed the very first Academy Award.
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The "Star Spangled Banner" becomes the country's official national anthem.
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Capone is convicted of tax evasion after years of involvement in bootlegging and gambling, mostly in Chicago.
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Nebraska's state capital is finished.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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democrat from New York, defeats Hoover for the presidency
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is enacted into law
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
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the nation repeals the constitutional amendment prohibiting the making, selling, possessing and consuming of alcoholic drinks.
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Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia in 1935.
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King Edward VIII of England gives up his throne to marry Wallace W. Simpson, "the woman I love." Simpson cannot become England's Queen because she's American and a divorcée.
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black Alabama native educated at Ohio State University, Jesse Owens, wins four gold medals.
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Japan invades China
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she is lost over the Pacific on a round-the-world flight.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies.
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Great Britain declares war on Germany. Soon, all of Europe is fighting.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of denmark and norway in order to protect freedom and independence.
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Hitler handed french offices his terms of surrender.
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Germans assembled an ivasion fleet along the french coast. 2,000 German planes ranged over Britain.
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The RAF shot down over 185 German planes, at the same time they lost only 26 aircrafts.
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Caused anger and resentment, germans saw nothing fair in a treaty that blamed them for starting the war.
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Congress passed it, beause Americans favored it.
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Hitler broke the agrement he made in 1939 with Stalin not to go to war and invade the Soviet Union.
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Roosevelt orderd the navey to shoot the German Submariens on sight.
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Tojo orderd the Japenese Navy to preapre for an attack on the United States.
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Wolf Packs were successful in sinking as much as 350,000 tons of shipments in a single month.
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A Japenese dive bomber swooped over pearl harbor, and was follwed by more than 180 war planes.
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Roosvelt requested for a declaration of war agaist Japan
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American newspapers reported the end of automobile production for private use.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan, the 3 nations became known as the Axis Powers.
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6 million jews died in death camps and in the Nazi Massacres.
