Timeline: WW1 - Great Depression - WW11 | Timetoast

Dec 1, 1913

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling
Jun 28, 1914

*Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated
Jul 28, 1914

WW1

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May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm
Mar 8, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution begins

http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution
May 4, 1917

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww1/cou/us/food/w1cus-usfa.html
May 18, 1917

Passage of the Selective Service Act

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act
Jul 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 WW1

http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/war-industries-board.htm
Oct 1, 1917

Russia withdraws from WW1

http://classroom.synonym.com/significance-russian-withdrawal-wwi-5281.html
Jan 8, 1918

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1324.html
Jan 27, 1918

Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Apr 8, 1918

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h4303.html
Nov 11, 1918

Austria-Hungary Surrenders to the Allies

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/ww1/section11.rhtml
Nov 11, 1918

*Armistice ends World War 1

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends
Jun 28, 1919

*Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1933

Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

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Aug 18, 1920

Women were granted the right to vote

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63
Jan 1, 1922

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

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Dec 25, 1926

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

http://www.biography.com/people/hirohito-37173
May 21, 1927

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

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Nov 6, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected President

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1928
Period: Jan 1, 1929 to Jan 1, 1933

Bank failures begin

http://www.history.com/topics/bank-run
Oct 24, 1929

Stock Market crashed in the United States

http://www.history.com/topics/1929-stock-market-crash
Oct 29, 1929

*The Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday"

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Jul 7, 1930

Boulder Dam Project begins

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/building-of-hoover-dam-begins
Jan 1, 1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President for the first time

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May 21, 1932

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo fight

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight
Jul 18, 1932

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

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Sep 18, 1932

Japan conquers Manchuria

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm
Jan 1, 1933

Hitler sets up Dachau

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Jan 30, 1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671
Mar 1, 1933

Civilian Conservation Camps

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Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-broadcasts-first-fireside-chat
May 12, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Agricultural-Adjustment-Administration
Jan 1, 1934

Congress creates the SEC

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Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1937

Dustbowl

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Apr 8, 1935

Works Progress Administration established

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Aug 14, 1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States
Jan 1, 1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President for the second time

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Jul 18, 1936

Civil war in Spain

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Aug 9, 1936

Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal
May 1, 1937

Neutrality Act

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/neutrality-acts
May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hindenburg-disaster
Jul 7, 1937

Japan defeats China

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/24/books/book-reviews/chinas-contribution-to-japans-defeat/
Feb 20, 1938

Hitler supports Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Japan_relations
May 17, 1938

Naval Expansion Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Act_of_1938
Sep 29, 1938

Hitler promises peace

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/04/appeasement-and-peace-in-our-time-1938.html
Oct 30, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

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Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938

*Kristallnacht - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

http://www.history.com/topics/kristallnacht
Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact

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Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland
Sep 3, 1939

Britain and France declare war

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany
Sep 3, 1939

Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war

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Jan 1, 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President for the third time

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Sep 27, 1940

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tripartite-pact-is-signed-by-germany-italy-and-japan
Mar 11, 1941

Lend Lease Act

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Jun 22, 1941

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164
Dec 7, 1941

*Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWll.

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
Dec 18, 1941

Japan invades Northern China

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Jan 12, 1942

WW2 War Production Board created by Roosevelt

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Feb 19, 1942

Japanese Internment Camps begin

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Jun 4, 1942

Battle of Midway

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Jun 21, 1942

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

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Jan 1, 1944

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President for the fourth time

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Jun 6, 1944

*D-Day Invasion

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
Dec 16, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge Time period: December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945
Feb 4, 1945

*Yalta Conference

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

Iwo Jima

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Apr 12, 1945

FDR dies

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-dies
Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide

http://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/04-30/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide
May 8, 1945

V-E Day and V-J Day

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
Aug 6, 1945

*Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Sep 2, 1945

Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1900_occupation.htm 1945- 1952
Nov 20, 1945

Nuremburg War Trials

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