Timeline: WI-Great Depression-WII | Timetoast

Dec 1, 1913

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers
Jan 1, 1914

The First Commercial Flight
Jun 28, 1914

Assasinations of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated
Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War 1
Aug 5, 1914

First Traffic Light Installed
May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm
May 4, 1917

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
May 18, 1917

Passage of the selective service act

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act
Jun 15, 1917

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by congress

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-espionage-act
Jul 28, 1917

War industries board established to regulate production in WWl
Oct 26, 1917

Russia withdraws from WW1

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/russia-makes-a-separate-peace
Nov 7, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution begins
Jan 8, 1918

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
Period: Jan 29, 1918 to Dec 29, 1920

Worldwide Fly Epidemic kills 30 million
Apr 8, 1918

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802880.html
Nov 3, 1918

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
Nov 11, 1918

Armistice ends World War I
Jun 28, 1919

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWl
Sep 1, 1919

Hitler comes to power in Germany
Period: Jan 17, 1920 to Feb 20, 1933

Passage of Prohibition
Jan 1, 1921

Bank Failures Begin
Oct 1, 1922

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mussolini-founds-the-fascist-party
Dec 25, 1926

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
May 20, 1927

Charles Lindebergh makes first nonstop tansatlantic flight
Jun 18, 1928

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight
Nov 6, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected President

http://hoover.archives.gov/info/HooverTimeLine.html
Oct 28, 1929

The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
Jan 13, 1930

Mickey Mouse Comic 1st appears
Mar 13, 1930

Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto
May 19, 1930

white woman win voting rights in South Africa
Jun 7, 1930

NY Times agrees to capitalize the "n" in "Negro"
Jan 1, 1931

Boulder Dam Project begins

http://www.history.com/topics/hoover-dam
Feb 27, 1932

Japan Conquers Manchuria
Jul 28, 1932

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bonus-marchers-evicted-by-u-s-army
Nov 8, 1932

FDR elected President- once
Mar 1, 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps
Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR
Mar 22, 1933

Hitler Sets Up Dachau
May 1, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act
Jun 6, 1934

Congress creates the SEC

http://www.history.com/topics/securities-and-exchange-commission
Apr 8, 1935

Works Progress Administration established
Aug 14, 1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act
Jul 7, 1936

Civil War in Spain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
Aug 9, 1936

Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany
Nov 3, 1936

FDR elected President twice
May 6, 1937

Hindenburg Disaster
Jul 7, 1937

Japan invades Northern China
Oct 30, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds
Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass) - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods
Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin sin the Non aggression Pact
Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland
Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare War
Sep 27, 1940

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
Nov 5, 1940

FDR elected President three times
Mar 1, 1941

Lend Lease Act

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act
May 1, 1941

Cheerios 1st introduced
Jun 22, 1941

Hitler Invades the Soviet Union

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
Oct 31, 1941

Mount Rushmore Completed
Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Dec 8, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWll
Jan 12, 1942

WWll War Production Board Created by Roosevelt

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-recreates-the-national-war-labor-board
Feb 19, 1942

Japanese Internment Camps begin

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Jun 3, 1942

Battle of Midway

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
Jun 21, 1942

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-surrender-at-tobruk-libya
Jun 6, 1944

D-Day Invasion

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Battle Of The Bulge

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
Jan 20, 1945

FDR elected President four times
Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
Feb 19, 1945

Iwo Jima

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
May 8, 1945

V-E Day

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
Aug 6, 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Aug 15, 1945

V-J Day

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
Oct 8, 1945

Microwave Oven Invented
Nov 20, 1945

Nuremburg War Trials

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nuremberg-trials
Jul 5, 1946

Bikini First Introduced
Feb 21, 1947

Polaroid Camera invented
Oct 14, 1947

Chuck Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier
Apr 28, 1952

Seven Year Occupation of Japan by United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan