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Garvrilo Princip shot him and his wife.
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It was expected to be a short war.
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They were obligated by the treaty ro support Austria.
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Germany delcared war on Russia's ally France.
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When Germany invaded Belgium.
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Allies of France returned to Marne River to halt Germans from advancing.
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Two parallel trenches were built from France to the Swiss Alps.
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U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania
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Germany torpedoed an unarmed French steamer after breaking their promise.
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It was the start of the first battle.
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They lost over 1.2 million casualties.
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Germany wanted to entice Mexico to enter the war, but the British decoded the messages before they reached Mexico.
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President Wilson asked the House of Representatives to declare war on Germany..
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The fighting ended on the 11th hours, of the 11th day of the 11th month.
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Offically ended the First World War.
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American saw a legal ban of the transportation and manufature of alcohol.
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Held it first meeting in Paris. The league was made up of 5 countries that were US, France, Belgium, England, Japan.
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They robbed and killed the guard and paymaster of a Massachuetts shoe factory.
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The Women's Bureau was formed into the Department of Labor.
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The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
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Davis, stood in the studio and read the results of the presidential election.
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Had set up their own organization so they could cesor their own movies, called the MPAA.
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She recorded her first jazz popular jazz album with Columbian Records.
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He died 2 and a half years into his presidential term and was succeed by Calvin Coolidge.
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John Scopes was being tried for violating Tennesse's Butler Act which prohibited teaching of evolution.
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Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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First female to swim across the English Channel.
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Babe Ruth hit a total of 60 homeruns, breaking the season record.
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Walt Disney made the first cartoon.
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After reaching an all time high in September, it crashed, creating a worldwide crisis.
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The Empire State Building began construction on this day.
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It was signed by president Hoover to slash world trade.
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Hoover asked Congress too pass $150 million porject to increase employment and economy.
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It was approved by president Hoover and Congress to be the national anthem.
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Comic strip by CHester Gould made its debut apperence.
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Established to stimulate banking and business.
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Roosevelt won by a landslide, 472 Electoral College to Hoovers 59 votes.
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His speech with its halmark phrase, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" begins to rally the public and Congress to deal with great depression issues.
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Was fought between Britain and Germans over Great Britain's airspace.
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The jeep had been invented for military help, for taking it across tough tarrains.
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FDR gave the ok for the for starting the atmoic bomb project.
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Japan took a suprise attack on U.S Naval Base and bombed the ships and land.
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FDR authorized military commanders to designate "military areas" to Japanese interment camps.
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American and Filipino prisoners of war had to march 65 miles to camp O'Donnell.
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Most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign.
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After surrendering to the Allied powers, and declared war on the Axis powers.
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First day of this massive amphibious invasion, by bring troops across the English Channel to invade Normady, France.
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The German Resistance had planned to overthrow the Nazi-led government and kill Hitler, but the plan was a failure.
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FDR complained of pain in his back and collapsed on the floor unconscious,
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Mussolini was killed in Giulino after being captured. Him and many other fascists were taken and killed.
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Task of trying 23 of the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich.
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Reconstruction plan devoloped to aid the Soviet Union and its allies.
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Frank X. McNamara made a credit card that could be used at more than one place and it was called the Diners Club Credit Card.
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When hearing that the Soviets had created the Hydrogen Bomb Truman ordered Oppenheimer to created one more powereful than the one they created.
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Charles M. Schulz's Peanut cartoon appeared in seven newspapers and was four panels long.
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In 1951 CBS broadcasted the first color TV program, but no one with black and white TV's could see it in color.
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During the night Queen Elizabeth's father had passed away in his sleep. She awoke the next morning to be queen at the age of 25.
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Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh, when there was an outbreak of polio.
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A giant thick layer of smog settled over London. The fog mixed with balck smoke and created deadly smog.
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Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest, at 11:30 and were marked as the first people to climb to the top of Mt. Everest.
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Four black college students from the Agriculture and Technical college in North Carolina staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter.
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Teh first weather satellite launched in the United States.
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The fifty star was debuted in Philidelphia, to mark Hawaii joining the states.
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The US figure skating team was killed in a plane crash on their way to the World Championship in Belgium.
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The invasion in Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro was a fail.
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Alan Shepard was the first US man to complete a sub-orbital mission inside a Mercury capsule.
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The US extented its lands into the U.S Virgin Islands when President Kennedy proclaimed the Buck Island Reef as a National Monument.
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He became the first U.S astronaut in orbit in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. He went around the Earth three times before returning.
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Kennedy requested naval and air blockades on Cuba due to the Soviets bringing them missiles.
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A legislation was passed in Congress that banned discrimination in work places, and voting.
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He won his first presidential elction over Barry M. Goldwater from Arizona. He extended the Democratic victory.
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He spoke at a Civil Rights rally on the courthouse steps of the Alabama State Capitol.
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outlawing of the requirement of potential voters to take a literacy test in order to qualify and the provision of federal registration of voters.
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Was signed by United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
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Neil Armstrong, United States astronaut, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon four days after launch from Cape Canaveral.
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Paul McCartney had told the press that he was no longer going to perform or record with the other members of the band. He said they were spliting due to personal differences.
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National Guard was ordered on the campus due to students protesting. The protests ended with 4 students killed.
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The bridge was brought to the U.S and placed in Arizona. It is the second-largest tourist attraction.
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Eight members of the Palestinian terrorist organization, called Black September snuck into the arena where the Israeli athletes were and killed two of them. Nine others were taken hostage.
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The tv show was based off of the book MASH. It had all of the same characters as the book. It was based on experiences of a surgeon in the Korean War.
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The tower had started to be constructed in 1970. It was named the Sears Tower until 1998, then was renamed the Willis Tower.
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Spiro Agnew was the first US Vice President to resign. He had resigned in disgrace to his country due to federal tax evasion and political corruption.
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He announced that he woould be resigning as president. Due to the stress under the Watergate Scandal.
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Bill Gates, the Chairman of Microsoft had realeased the largest software making company of all time.
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The first victim of the Ebola virus was a cotton factory worker from Sadan. After a few months 602 cases had been reported.
