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The Austria-Hungary Archduke was shot by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip
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Germany invades Belgium following the Schlieffen Plan
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The Lusitania was sunk by German U Boats
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Battle begins and lasts until mid-November. British suffers 60,000 casualties.
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US presidential election. Wilson vs Huges
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Selective Service Act is passed by congress.
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President wilson gives his famous Fourteen Points speech before congress.
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the flu epidemic breaks out, affecting about a quarter of the US population.
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Alivin York singlehandedly kills 25 Germans, and with six other doughboys, captured 132 prisoners.
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The Emergency Quota Act is established.
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Beginning in the 19th century, many people, especially women, blamed many of society's problems upon alcohol. With the hope of bettering society, organizations were formed to advocate against the consumption of alcohol. By the beginning of the 20th century, many states had already created state laws banning alcohol. On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S.
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Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested and charged with robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts
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The Red Scare panic in the United States begins.
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The Big Four and the leaders of the defeated nations gathered in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles to sign the peace treaty.
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300,00 steel workers walked off their jobs
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Miners strike due to lowering of wages and longer workdays
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A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American Culture.
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The KKK membership reaches 4.5 million members
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Tennessee makes it illegal to teach Darwins Theory. This caused a fight over the theory and whether it should be taught in school.
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of six mob associates and a mechanic of the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era.[2] It resulted from the struggle — between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone — to take control of organized crime in Chicago.[3] Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.
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The systematic murder of 6 million Jews accross Europe. The Nazis also murdered 5 million other people.
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Stormtroopers attacked Jewish homes, buisinesses, and synagogues.
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Hitler uses the policy of genocide to erradicate Jews.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.
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The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan become an alliance.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Before the meeting at Wannsee, each camp had several gas chambers that killed as many as 12,000 people.
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Winston Churchill warns of the descent of an Iron Curtain across Europe.
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President Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine starting with the giving of aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere
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US extends $400 million of military aid to Greece and Turkey, signalling its intent to contain communism in the Mediterranean.
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The Soviet Union forms the Communist Information Bureau (COMINFORM) with which it dictates the actions of leaders and communist parties across its spheres of influence.
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The United Nations passes a resolution calling for the withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Korea, free elections in each of the two administrations, and the creation of a UN commission dedicated to the unification of the peninsula.
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Truman signs the Marshall Plan into effect. By the end of the programs, the United States has given $12.4 billion in economic assistance to European countries.
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The Berlin Airlift defeats Russia's attempt to starve West Berlin.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in order to resist Communist expansion.
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The Soviet blockade of Berlin ends with the re-opening of access routes to Berlin. The airlift continues until September, in case the Soviets re-establish the blockade.
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US President Harry S. Truman fires Douglas MacArthur from command of US forces in Korea.
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The University of Mississippi becomes an integrates school.
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MLK flies into the super racially divided city of Birmingham Alabama.
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MLK posts bail to get out of jail.
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JFK sends troops to George Wallace to honor a court order desegregating the University of Alabama.
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250,000 people converge at nations capital to demand equality.
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Macom X visits a New York prss conferance and gains a great deal of publicity.
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The Mississippi freedom Democratic Party is established by Frannie Lou Hammer.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Acts of 1964
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600 protestors set out for Montgomery Alabama to protest.
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Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
