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Austria-Hungary declares a short war against Serbia
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Germany invades Belguim following a strategy known as the Schlieffen Plan.
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The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-Boat.
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America declares war aginst Germany
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President Wilson deliverd Fourteen points before Congress.
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Alvin York was a conscientious objector killed 25 Germans and with six other doughboys capture 132 prisoners.
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Austria-Hungary surrendered to allies.
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The first world war ends.
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Big Four and the leaders of the defeated nations gathered to sign peace treaty.
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The U.S. Steel Cooporation refused to meet with union representatives, as a result over 30,000 workers walked off their jobs.
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Negotiations between labor and management produced a deadlock for the steel mill strike.
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Presindent Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke and lay partilly paralyzed for more than two months.
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The steel strike ends.
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Warren G. Harding dies of a heart attack or stroke.
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Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime to teach evolution.
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Scopes trial oppened and almost over nighht became a national sensation.
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Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Alantic Ocean.
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Sacco and Vanzettie died in the electric chair.
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Approximately 50 million americans sat listening to their radios as Graham McNamee, radio's most popular announcer, breathlessly called the boxing match between Former heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey and current titleholder, Gene Tunney.
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Some 1 million New Yorkers mobbed showrooms to view the new Model A.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan had signed a mutual defense treaty, the Tripartite Pact. The three nations become known as the Axis powers.
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A. Phillip Randolph called on Afican Americans everywhere to come to the capital and to march under the banner "We Loyal Colored Americans Demand the Right to Work and Fight for Our Country"
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Hideki Tojo ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the United States.
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Roosevely recieved a decoded message message that instructed Japan's peace envoy to reject all American peace proposals.
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More than 180 Japanese warplanes bombed Pearl Harbor.
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived at the White House and spent the next three weeks working out war plans with President Roosevelt and his advisors.
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Congress passed the WAAC law. The WAAC is the Women's Auxilary Army Corps.
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Germany surredered at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the invasion. Shortley after midnight, three divisions parachuted down behind German lines.
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Truman suddenly becomes president when Franklin Roosevelt died.
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The representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish a new peacekeeping body.
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By time the fighting ended, more than 7,600 American s had died.
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The delagates signed the charter establishing the United Nations.
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With rising unemployment rates, prices on goods skyrocketed.
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Truman asks congress for $400 million in economic and military aid for Greece and Turkey.
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Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy,Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal joined with the United States and Canada to form a defensive military alliance.
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North Korea forces sweep accross the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea.
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In a show of military strength, Truman ordered American troops stationed in Japan to support the South Koreans.
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First Lieutenant Phillip Day, Jr., vividly remebers his first tatse of battle in Kora. He spotted a column of eight enemy tanls moving toward his company.
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Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite id launched.
