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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated
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Germany Declares war on Russia and France. Great Britian declares war on Germany and Austria Hungry.
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Alexandar Graham Belll makes first transcontinental telephone call.
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German U boats sink the Lusitania, and 1198 people die.
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The battles of Verdun and the Somme claim millions of lives.
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Woodrow Wilson is reelected president.
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Russisa withdraws from the war.
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The United States declare war on Germany.
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The selective Service Acts sets up the draft.
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President Wilson proposes the League of nations.
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Congress pass the Sedition Act.
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The Bolsheviks establish a communist regime in Russia.
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The first World War ends.
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A worldwide influenza edidemic kills over 30 million.
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Congress approves the 19 amendment granting womean the right to vote.
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Warren G. harding is elected president.
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Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted.
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China's communist party is founded
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Federal-Aid road act funds a national highway syatem.
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Louis Armstrong plays for king oliver's creole jazz band in chicago.
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Benito Mussollni is appointed prime minister of italy.
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President harding dies and calvin coolidge becomes president.
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Vladimir Lich Lenin founder of the soviet union dies.
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calvin coolidge is elected president.
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A. Philip Randolph organizes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters.
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British Laborers declare a general strike .
