World War I-Great Depression-World War II By reenarastedt Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie History.com Period: Jun 28, 1914 to Jun 28, 1919 World War I History.com Jan 1, 1915 Albert Einstein published Theory of Relativity Wikipedia Jan 25, 1915 Alexander Graham Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call Wikipedia May 7, 1915 Sinking of Lusitania History.com Jan 1, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution Begins History.com Jan 1, 1917 Passing of the Espionage and Sedition Acts Encyclopedia.com May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act Britannica.com Jun 8, 1917 Wilson presents his 14 Points Plan History.com Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board Establishment Aug 10, 1917 Setup of Food Administration under Herbert Hoover Eastern Connecticut State University Jan 1, 1918 African American Workers in Henry Ford's Assembly Line Blog "The Henry Ford Blog" Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 1, 1920 Worldwide Flu Epidemic Wikipedia.com Mar 1, 1918 Establishment of National War Labor Board u-s-history.com Mar 3, 1918 Russia Withdraws From WWI Wikipedia.com Nov 3, 1918 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies Wikipedia.com Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends WWI History.com Jun 15, 1919 First Transatlantic Flight by Charles Lindbergh Wikipedia.com Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI Firstworldwar.com Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1933 Passage of Prohibition and End of Prohibition Britannica.com Jan 16, 1920 Start of Prohibition Wikipedia.com Jan 1, 1921 Bank Failures Begin Econproph.com Jan 21, 1921 Charlie Chaplin's First Movie "The Kid" comes out Charliechaplin.com Oct 31, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed prime minister of Italy Britannica.com Dec 25, 1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan Biography.com Apr 23, 1928 Birth date of Shirley Temple Biography.com Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected President millercenter.org Feb 14, 1929 Invention of Penicillin Wikipedia.com Jun 12, 1929 Birthdate of Anne Frank Biography.com Oct 29, 1929 Stock Market chrashes "Black Tuesday" Blacktuesday.com Jan 1, 1931 Boulder Dam Project Begins Bechtel.com Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Jan 1, 1939 Dust Bowl History.com May 1, 1931 Opening of Empire State Building wikipedia Sep 1, 1931 Germany invades Poland ushmm.org Sep 18, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria interwars.weebly.com Sep 19, 1931 Japanese Invasion of Northern China Boundless.com May 21, 1932 Transatlantic Soloflight of Amelia Earhart Biography.com Jul 28, 1932 Hoover Disbands the Bonus Army ushistory.org Nov 8, 1932 Franklin D Roosevelt elected President First Term whitehouse.gov Jan 30, 1933 Hitler comes to Power in Germany BBC.co.uk Mar 1, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps history.com Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR Americanrhetoric.com Mar 22, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de May 12, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act u-s-history.com Jun 6, 1934 Congress creates the SEC sec.gov Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration Establishment Wikipedia.org Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act ssa.gov Jan 1, 1936 Jesse Owens wins Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany jesseowens.com Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939 Civil War in Spain Britannica.com Nov 3, 1936 FDR elected President Second Term whitehouse.gov May 6, 1937 Hindenburg Disaster Airships.net Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the "War of the Worlds" History.com Nov 9, 1938 Reichspogromnacht/ Kristallnacht Britannica.com Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non Agression Act Britannica.com Period: Sep 1, 1939 to May 8, 1945 WWII Britannica.com Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland Britain and France delare War bbc.co.uk Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact historyguy.com Nov 5, 1940 FDR elected President Third Term whitehouse.gov Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act History.com May 1, 1941 Konrad Zuse's Z3, first computer controlled by a software computer Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union USHMM Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour and the US enters WWII pearlharboroahu.com Jan 16, 1942 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt Wikipedia Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Interment Camps begin Wikipedia Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Wikipedia Jun 1, 1944 German General Rommel surrenders in Noth Africa Biography.com Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion History.com Nov 7, 1944 FDR elected President Fourth Term whitehouse.gov Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge us army Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1952 Seven year occupation of Japan history.state.gov Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1949 Nuremburg War Trials Military legal resources Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference history.com Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima History Mar 8, 1945 Victoryin Europe dau bbc Jul 16, 1945 Test of the atomic bomb USHistory.org Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki avalon project Aug 15, 1945 Victory dau in Japan Wikipedia
