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Bolsheviks family invaded Russia and took over to eventually draw Russia from the war.
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Austrina declares war on Serbia
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Germany invaded Belgium
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Gavrilo Princip was the shooter
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German u-boats sink the boat, killing over 1,000 people
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Finally made the U.S. declare war on Germany
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Act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service
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Established in 1917 and reorganized in 1918 by Bernard M. Baruch
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Would provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle their grivances without having to resort to war.
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sayinhg something disloyal about the war
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Sudden end
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Mustard gas which is a posion gas
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Included Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia
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Killed over 30 million because of no treatment
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Women are able to vote
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The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits by October.
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Women win the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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U.S. immigration bill excludes all Japanese people.
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American hero Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs, winning the hearts of Americans, and breaking the season record.
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Walt Disney makes his first first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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A ravenous drought hit the Great Plains
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Congress passed the Hawley-Smoot tariff
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A dust storm became deadly. It lasted for seven years
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In the 1930 congressional elections, the Democrats took advantage of anti-Hoover sentiments to win more seats in Congress
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Approved by Congress. It authorized up to $2 million for emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies, railroads, and other large businesses
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The unemployment rate among African Americans stood over at over 50 percent, while the overall rate was 25 percent.
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Hoover signed the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, which lowered mortage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure.
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11,000 of the nation's 25,00 banks failed
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2,600 schools across the nation has shut down, leaving more than 300,000 students out of school
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Monopoly was invented
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One windstorm picked up millions of tons of dust from the plain and carried it to East Coast cities.
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President Roosevelt is reelected.
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By the end of the 1930's, hundreds of thousands of farm families had migrated to California and other Pacific Coast states.
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Roosevelt created the OSRD to bring scientists into the war effort.
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American newspaper reported te end of automobile production for private use. The last car to roll offf an automaker's assembly line was a gray sedan with "victory trim."
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The bill establishing the WAAC became a law. The law gave WAAC salary and benefits.
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Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser had built seven massive shipyards that turned out Liberty ships, tankers, tropp transports, and "baby" aircraft carriers at an astonishing rate.
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107,000 Allied troops, the great majority of them Americans, landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Alfiers in North Africa.
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140 Liberty ships were produced within a month. Launhcings of Allied ships began to outnumber sinkings.
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The Allies began to see victories on land as well as sea. The first greaet turning point came in the BAttle of Stalingrad.
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Neaarly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries, threee times as many in 1941.
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The day the Allies attacked Normandy
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The Allies had freed France, Belgium, ad Luxembourg
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The Diner's Club issued the first credit card in 1950. Then later in 1958 Express Card was issued.
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I love Lucy became one of the most popular TV shows.
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Illinois expanded the Park FOoest to include both low cost rental units and single-family homes.
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Published by Jack Keerouac. The novel described a nomadic search across America for authentic experiences, people and values.
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Introduced a new convenience item, frozen TV dinner.
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There were 250 radio stations aimed at African-Americna singers. The radio stations also served as an advertisement for a black audience.
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Opened the first McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois
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Opened in the state of California. Attracted 3 million vistiors.
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President Eisenhower signed off of the act. Built 41,00 highways.
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NASA and Space Admininistration is established.
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France hosts the very first Winter Olympics
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A teacher is tried for teaching evolution.
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Germany is successfully admitted into the League of Nations.
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Charels Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
