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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip
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from this point on until August 6th, country after country begin to declair war on eachother
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Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain. Even nuteral merchant vessels were potential targets
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The Battle of Gallipoli begins.
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The Battle of Verdun begins. Said to be the longest, bloodiest battles in the war
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Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico to get Mexico to join in.
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The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government during the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace.
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Germany signs the armistice at Compiegne, France. Fighting ends on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (i.e. 11 a.m. on November 11)
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The Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI.
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Jazz is a perfect way to describe the carefree vibe of the 20s. It was created by African Americans of New Orleans, like Louis Armstrong. He was a fantastic jazz artist. When he was young, Louis played a small tin horn. Jazz played a major role in the 1920's.
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Prohibition (The 18th Amendment) is the ban on making and selling of alcohol. When this went into effect saloons were forced to close down. People who liked alcohol didn't like the government interfering, and found ways to get a hold of it. An example was going to speakeasies, illegal nightclubs. Other people made their living by selling alcohol they were known as bootleggers. Another result of the amendment was high crime levels. The most notorious criminal was Al Capone.
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Amelia Bought her first plane
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Although the first car was invented in 1896 by Henry Ford it was very expensive, people wanted to make it more affordable. The Ford Motor Company in Detroit made the Model T. Ford, the first affordable car. Ford produced more than a million automobiles, at a rate of one per minute! Each car cost $335. They used an assembly line, that’s when the products move along a conveyer belt, to speed up production. Workers at different stations added parts as a belt moves along.
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President Calvin Coolidge quickly tried to clean up the scandals. He was reelected president in 1924. He instituted the laissez faire, which stated that business would act in a way that would benefit the nation. He was what people called an isolationist, because he wanted to stay out of other nations' problems except for self- defense.
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The KKK believed that America should be racially pure, which means they discriminated the blacks. The Klan became very strong in many states, including non-southern states. The Klu Klux Klan had over 5 million members in 1924. It tried persuade politics by using violence, but by the end of the decade the Klan began to decline
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Babe Ruth became the first player to hit 60 homeruns in one year
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Lindbergh was the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. He flew because he heard there was an offer of $25,000 to anyone that would dare to fly nonstop. He flew 3,600 mile in 33 hours, after that he became a hero
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The Kellogg Brian Pact was Calvin Coolidge's creation. The Pact was signed by 15 nations. The treaty stated that these nations will not make a war with one another except in time of self-defense. Many Americans liked this Pact hoping that war will stop.
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Amelia Earhart "Lady Lindy" the first women passenger to cross the Atlantic .
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Walt Disney created the very first Mickey Mouse movie, about a mouse called "Steam Boat Willie"
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The London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed into law by the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, and Japan, to take effect on January 1, 1931. It would expire on December 31, 1936
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover. Its effective rate hikes would slash world trade.
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Technology moves forward. Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food with his quick-freezing process and patents the concept. Also in 1930, the analog computer, or differential analyzer, is invented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston by Vannevar Bush. Bush is also considered a pioneer in the development of the concept for the World Wide Web, with his idea for the memex
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Cartoonist Chester Gould creates the debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip.
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The infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnaped. He is found dead on May 12 not far from his home in Hopewell, New Jersey. Three years later, on February 13, 1935, Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of the crime.
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Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent President Hoover in the presidential election for his first of an unprecedented four terms. The landslide victory, 472 Electoral College votes to 59 for Hoover began the era of FDR that would lead the nation through the vestiges of the Great Depression and the ravages of World War II.
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Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
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Located at the homestead of Daniel Freeman, a filer of one of the initial homestead applications under the Homestead Act of 1862, the Homestead National Monument in Nebraska is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This historic site pays tribute to the many pioneers who settled the western states.
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The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic and one day later, after a ceremonial press of a button from Washington, D.C. by President Roosevelt, receives its first vehicles. It created a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks the U.S. Congress for a defense budget hike.
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Nazis established a Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
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President Truman set up the Central Intelligence Group. In late 1945 he had coordinated various intelligence reform plans considered in the drafting of the directive that created the CIG. In 1947 it was re-named the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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The Soviet Union asks the UN Security Council to look into Britain's interventions in Greece and Indonesia.
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Eisenhower names California Governor Earl Warren as chief justice of the Supreme Court. Warren's tenure will encompass some of the Court's most far-reaching decisions; as its leader, he will become the focus of controversy. Eisenhower will later regret the choice
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The show "Disneyland" premiers on television to promote the amusement park set to open in Anaheim, California in the summer of 1955
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The Soviets launch Sputnik, the first manmade satellite. The achievement shocks Americans, who begin to fear that the Russians are pulling ahead in technology.
