Unit 1 Casting off the Moorings

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    The Second Boer War rages in Africa

  • "Brownie" camera introduced

    "Brownie" camera introduced

    This camera makes photography accessible to amateurs.
  • Quantum Theory

    Quantum Theory

    Developed by Max Planck.
  • Queen Victoria dies.

    Queen Victoria dies.

    This brings an end to the Victorian era in England.
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    Theodore Roosevelt serves his first term as President after McKinley is assassinated.

  • Guglielmo Marconi sends the first wireless Trans-Atlantic message.

    Guglielmo Marconi sends the first wireless Trans-Atlantic message.

  • First Flight

    First Flight

    The Wright brothers achieve the first successful flight in Kitty Hawk, NC.
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    Construction begins the Panama Canal.
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    Russo-Japanese war

    Russo-Japanese war is fought, ending when Roosevelt mediates a peace treaty in Portsmouth, NH
  • Freud publishes new book

    Freud publishes new book

    Freud publishes "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality".
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    Roosevelt's second term

    Roosevelt serves his second term as president.
  • Einstein publishes new theory

    Einstein publishes new theory

    Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativty
  • Earthquake in San Francisco

    Earthquake in San Francisco

    San Francisco earthquake kills over 700 people.
  • Roosevelt sends out the Great White Fleet

    Roosevelt sends out the Great White Fleet

  • William Howard Taft is president.

    William Howard Taft is president.

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    John Arthur "Jack" Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion in the world.

  • W.E.B Du Bois establishes the NAACP

    W.E.B Du Bois establishes the NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • Great Britain lays the world's first oil pipeline in Persia.

  • 146 people die in a fire at Manhattan's Triangle Shirt-waist Factory

    146 people die in a fire at Manhattan's Triangle Shirt-waist Factory

  • Revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen establishes a new republic in South China

    Revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen establishes a new republic in South China

  • Wilson signs the Underwood Tariff Act, reducing or eliminating import tariffs

    Wilson signs the Underwood Tariff Act, reducing or eliminating import tariffs

  • Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act, the most wide-reaching banking bill in the nation's history

    Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act, the most wide-reaching banking bill in the nation's history

  • 1,517 people perish when the "unsinkable" Titanic sinks

    1,517 people perish when the "unsinkable" Titanic sinks

  • Ottoman Empire collapses; great European powers carve it up.

    Ottoman Empire collapses; great European powers carve it up.

  • Seventeenth Amendment provides for direct election of senators.

    Seventeenth Amendment provides for direct election of senators.

  • Sixteenth Amendment authorizes an income tax.

    Sixteenth Amendment authorizes an income tax.

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    Woodrow Wilson is President

  • Congress passes the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Adamson Act (8-hour day for railroad workers), and the Child Labor Act.

  • Assassination of Acrhduke Ferdinand sparks World War 1

    Assassination of Acrhduke Ferdinand sparks World War 1

  • The failure of the Schileffen Plan and the final battles of the Race to the Sea necessitate trench warfare on the Western Front

  • Balkan campaign fails for Austria-Hungary

    Balkan campaign fails for Austria-Hungary

  • Italy joins the Allies

    Italy joins the Allies

  • The Allies lose 50,000 men in the disastrous Dardanelles campaign (Gallipoli)

    The Allies lose 50,000 men in the disastrous Dardanelles campaign (Gallipoli)

  • Germans utilize poison gas against Allied troops during the Second Battle of Ypres

    Germans utilize poison gas against Allied troops during the Second Battle of Ypres

  • German U-boats sink the Lusitania

    German U-boats sink the Lusitania

  • Alexi Brusilov launches his campaign against Austria-Hungary

    Alexi Brusilov launches his campaign against Austria-Hungary

  • Over a million men die in the Battle of the Somme

    Over a million men die in the Battle of the Somme

  • Over a million men die at the Battle of Verdun.

    Over a million men die at the Battle of Verdun.

  • Both the Allies and Central Powers claim victory at the Battle of Jutland

    Both the Allies and Central Powers claim victory at the Battle of Jutland

  • Wilson ends diplomatic relations with Germany after Germans sink the U.S.S Housatonic

    Wilson ends diplomatic relations with Germany after Germans sink the U.S.S Housatonic

  • Wilson's administration makes the Zimmermann Note public to Americans

    Wilson's administration makes the Zimmermann Note public to Americans

  • Congress declares war against Germany

    Congress declares war against Germany

  • The heartbreaking Third Battle of Ypres (known as Passchendaele) takes thousands of lives

    The heartbreaking Third Battle of Ypres (known as Passchendaele) takes thousands of lives

  • Bolsheviks take over the Russian government

  • Jerusalem is overtaken by the Allies

  • Police arrest White House suffragette picketers

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    Italians are devastated at the Battle of Caporetto

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, conceding enormous amounts of land and people to Germany

    Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, conceding enormous amounts of land and people to Germany

  • Wilson announces his Fourteen points for a just peace

    Wilson announces his Fourteen points for a just peace

  • Germany breaks the Allied line on the Western Front during its Spring Offensive

  • U.S. troops help the Allies win the Second Battle of the Marne

  • The Ottoman Empire collapses

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

  • Allies and Germans agree to an armistice effective at 11 a.m.

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    Russian Civil war is fought between the Reds and the Whites.

  • Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles

  • Eighteenth Amendment prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States

  • Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote

  • First radio network broadcast

  • Congress refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations

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    Warren Harding is President.

  • Mussolini secures dictatorial powers in Italy

  • Stalin is named the general secretary of the Russian Communist Party.

  • Hitler is arrested and put in prison, where he writes Mein Kampf after the failed Beer Hall Putsch

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    Calvin Coolidge is President

  • Lenin dies.

  • J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • The Scopes Trial takes place

  • Robert Goddard launches the first modern rocket

  • Charles Lindbergh successfully flies an airplane nonstop from New York to Paris

  • Stalin introduces the first Five-Year Plan to expand the U.S.S.R.'s military and industry.

  • The stock market crashes on Black Tuesday

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    Stalin rules as undisputed dictator of the Soviet Union.

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    Herbert Hoover serves as President

  • Stalin persecutes church members and leaders, drastically reducing active churches in the U.S.S.R.

  • 15,000 veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding to be paid their bonus insurance early.

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    Stalin forces a secret famine in the Ukraine and other rich farming areas in order to break the people's resistance to his seizure of personal property.

  • Twentieth Amendment is ratified

  • Twenty-first Amendment is ratified, repealing Proibition

  • A drought hits the Great Plains, causing the Dust Bowl and displacing 60% of the Plains population

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

    German troops occupy the Rhineland

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    Japan seizes the main ports of China and commits many heinous acts against the Chinese people.

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    Francisco Franco leads the Nationalists against the left-wing Republicans in the Spanish Civil War

  • Period: to

    Francisco Franco leads the Nationalists against the left-wing Republicans in the Spanish Civil War

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    Japan seizes the main ports of China and commits many heinous acts against the Chinese people

  • Demanding Anschluss, Germany takes over Austria

  • Demanding Anschluss, Germany takes over Austria.

  • Franco turns Spain into a fascist state

  • Japan invades Chinese Manchuria

  • Germany seizes the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia under the Munich Agreement

  • Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact to divide Poland

  • Japan invades Chinese Manchuria.

  • Franco turns Spain into a fascist state.

  • Germany seizes the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.

  • Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact to divide Poland.

  • The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. declares war on Japan, entering World War II

  • Bataan, the last defense of the Philippines, falls to the Japanese

  • Japan's advance is stopped by the U.S. at the battle of the Coral sea

  • U.S. victory at the Battle of Midway is the turning point of the war in the Pacific

  • General Montgomery defeats Rommel at the Battle of El Alamein in Africa.

  • Executive Order 9066 directs all Japanese-Americans to relocation camps in the American west

  • The Germans surrender to the Soviets at the Battle of Stalingrad.