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Assassinated
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Allies stop German advance on Paris.
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The United States shipped millions of dollars of war supplies to the Allies, but requests kept coming.
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Germans use chemical weapons for the first time.
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A U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland.
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French hold the line in longest battle of the war. Feb.- July 1916
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Disastrous British offensive. July-Nov. 1916
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Woodrow Wilson defeated Charles Evans Hughes
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After WWI, Bosnia became part of a country that became known as Yugoslavia.
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World War 1 just ended
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Gave women the right to vote
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China's Communist Party was founded
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Reder's Digest is founded and the first issue is published. Becomes largest paid circulation magazine in the world.
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Treaty between the major world powers of France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It limited naval construction, outlawed poisonious gas, and respected China's sovereignty.
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The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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Plays in Jazz band for King Oliver, in Chicago.
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His Tomb was discovered in Egypt
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Aztec Indian ruins in New Mexico are proclaimed a National Monument by President Warren G. Harding.
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The first weekly news magazine in the Untied States.
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Held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France. The Winter Olympics have been held every for years since except during World War ii.
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Made a nonstop trip from New York to Paris in a single-engine monoplane.
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Sculptor Gutzon Borglum starts chiseling the faces of four presidents; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. It is completed fourteen years later.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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The United States Congress approves construction of the Hoover Dam,
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Future Civil Rights leader is born in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Signaled the beginning of The Great Depression and did not end until 1941. Most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States.
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more than 40% of the nation's banks fail
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Army led by Jose Uriburu took control of the government of Argentina
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shares the Nobel Peace prize
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8.02 million americans were unemployed
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Japan Invades Manchuria
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President Hoover signed into law the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.
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Franklin Roosevelt elected as the 32nd President
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the Bonus army arrives
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becomes King of newly-united Saudi Arabia
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The Federal Securities Act was passed.
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Congress creates the SEC to regulate the Stock Market.
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Robert Wagenr introduced the Act.
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The Supreme Court declared the NIRA unconstitutional.
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Congress passes the Social Security Act.
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Father Charles Coughlin speaks to a radio audience.
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The Civil War begins in Spain.
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Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Acts.
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The Wizard of Oz is released in movie theaters.
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The Germans begin to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast.
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British too busy fighting Hitler to block Japanese expansion.
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The first Chelmno extermination camp began operating.
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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The US joins World War 2
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Congress passes the Lend Lease Act.
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Japan begins their southward push by taking over French military bases in Indochina which is now Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haos.
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Roosevelt's proposal to extend the term of draftees is passed in the House of Representatives by only one vote.
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Tojo ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the U.S.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Most of Poland's 3,000,000 Jews were sent to labor camps.
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The Final Solution reaches its final stage.
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The Allies launch a massive invasion of Europe.
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Nazi retreat begins after the Battle of the Bulge.
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Inmates at the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria were liberated by U.S. soldiers.
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The American Government sent the Nationalists approximately 3 billion in aid.
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Much of Northern China was under communist control
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United Nations is established.
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Japan surrenders after atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Churchhill gives the Iron Curtain Speech
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George F. Kennan proposed a policy of containment.
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Most bitter winter in several centuries
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Gordon Kahn was a successful screenwriter.
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House Un-American Activities Committee first made headlines.
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Truman asks Congress for 400 million in economic and military aid.
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Sec. of State Geroge Marshall proposed that the US provide aid to all European naitons of need.
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Harry S. Truman is elected President.
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Berlin airlift begins
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A former Communist spy named Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union.
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State of Israel is created
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United States joins NATO.
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Americans learned that the Soviet Union had exploded an atomic bomb.
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The Korean War begins.
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Disc jockey Alan Freed was the first to use the term "rock-n-roll."
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The economy booms.
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60% of Americans are in the middle class.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president.
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20th century Fox introduced Cinema Scope.
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USSR opens the first small nucler power plant.
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Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's.
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Eisenhower is reelected.
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This year is the height of the baby boom.
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Novelist Jack Kerouac's On the Road was published and sold over 500,000 copies.
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NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is established.
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Toy sales alone reached 1.25 billion dollars.
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The American Express card was introduced.
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Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states.
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The U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia.
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Creighton Abrams made the 3AD Commander.
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John F. Kennedy is elected President.
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The 3AD begins conversion to the M-60 Battle Tank.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion happens in Cuba.
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USSR astronaut Gagarin is the first to orbit Earth.
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The Berlin border is closed.
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.
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U.S. involvement in Vietnam increases.
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US Army Europe troop strength peaks at 277,342 for the Cold War era (1946-1991).
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Cuban Missile Crisis happens and a nuclear war is narrowly averted.
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Kennedy visits 3AD troops in Germany.
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The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is ratified.
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The 3AD is completely revamped in organization under ROAD concept (Reorganization Objective Army Divisions).
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3AD participates in Operation BIG LIFT, forerunner of REFORGER exercises and 2AD is air-lifted from Ft. Hood, Texas.
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident happens and starts the Vietnam War.
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China detonates its first atomic bomb.
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North Korea captures USS Pueblo.
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Soviet troops crush the Czechoslovakian revolt.
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U.S. lands the first man on the moon.
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America celebrates the first Earth Day.
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Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both died of drug overdose.
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All in the Family was the most popular TV series.
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The revenue sharing bill known as the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act became law.
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President Nixon is reelected.
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Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
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The Supreme Court ruled that women who chose abortion has to be during the first three months of pregnancy.
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Energy Crisis begins and gasoline prices soar.
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Egypt and Syria started the Yom Kippur War against Israel.
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Jimmy Carter is elected President
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Americans celebrate the nation's bicentennial.
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The movie Saturday Night Fever inspires disco fashion.
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A nuclear power accident occurs at Three Mile island in PA.
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US dependence on foreign oil had eased slightly.
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Inflation soared from 7.6% to 11.3%
