Timeline: WWI-Great Depression-WWII

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 1950

1900's to 1950's

Dec 1, 1913

Henry Ford opens assembly lines to African American Workers

Jun 28, 1914

Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

History Channel --- Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Aug 3, 1914

Germany invades Belgium (Schlieffen Plan)

Period: Aug 3, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

WWI

May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 18, 1917

Passage of the Selective Service Act

Jul 28, 1917

War Industries board Established for WWI

Aug 10, 1917

Food Administration is set up under Herbert Hoover

Oct 24, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution Begins

Timeline of the Russian Communist Revolution

Jan 8, 1918

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Mar 3, 1918

Russia withdraws from WWI

Mar 11, 1918

Worldwide Spanish Flu Epidemic

Kills 30 million people world wide

Apr 8, 1918

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

May 16, 1918

Espionage and Sedition Acts passed by Congress

Jun 28, 1918

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

Nov 4, 1918

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

Nov 11, 1918

Armistice ends WWI

Jun 30, 1919

Passage of Prohibition

Period: Jun 30, 1919 to Feb 20, 1933

Prohibitiion

Jul 1, 1921

Chinese Communist Government founded in Shanghai

Dec 22, 1922

Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Dec 25, 1926

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan

May 20, 1927

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

Jun 17, 1928

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

Jul 17, 1928

President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico is assassinated

Nov 7, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected President

Mar 4, 1929

National Revolutionary Party organizes in Mexico

Oct 29, 1929

Stock Market Crashes

PBS link on Stock Market Crash of 1929

Period: Oct 29, 1929 to Jan 1, 1955

Great Depression

Jun 16, 1931

Al Capone is arrested for tax evasion

Sep 18, 1931

Japan conquers Manchuria

Jul 28, 1932

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

Jan 1, 1933

Marx Brothers

Wkipedia Marx Brothers

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Feb 20, 1933

End of Prohibition

Mar 4, 1933

First proposal of New Deal Programs to ease Great Depression

Mar 9, 1933

Bank failures begin

Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

Mar 22, 1933

Hitler sets up Dachau

Mar 31, 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps camps begin

Wikipedia

May 4, 1933

FDR is elected President

Period: May 4, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945

FDR's Presidency

May 12, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted

Jun 6, 1934

Congress creates the SEC

Securities Exchange Commission

Jul 13, 1934

Babe Ruth hits 700th home run

Chicago Trib Article on 700th Home Run by Babe

Apr 8, 1935

Works Progress Administration

Apr 14, 1935

Dust Bowl

May 29, 1935

Boulder Dam project is finished

Aug 14, 1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act

Jul 17, 1936

Civil War in Spain begins

Aug 9, 1936

Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Olympics in Munich, Germany

Jan 20, 1937

FDR is reelected president (2nd term)

May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

Jul 16, 1937

Japan invades northern China

Machuria invasion for resources

Oct 30, 1938

Orsen Welles broadcasts the War of the Worlds

Original Orsen Welles broad cast of War of the WorldsPanic as people fear we are being invaded.

Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass)

German Jews are rounded up into ghettos and concentration camps and their property is confiscated by Hitler and the Nazis

Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin sign a non aggression pact

Sep 1, 1939

Hitler begins using his military strategy called blitzkrieg or lightning war

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Aug 14, 1945

WWII

Sep 3, 1939

Britain and France declare war with Germany over the invasion of Poland

Jan 1, 1940

Woody Guthrie sings this land is our land

Wikipedia of Woody Guthrie

Sep 27, 1940

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

Jan 20, 1941

FDR reelected for a third term in office

Mar 11, 1941

Lend Lease Act is passed

Jun 22, 1941

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

Wikipedia

Dec 7, 1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Dec 8, 1941

United States enters WWII on the side of the allies

Allies are United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. Axis powers are Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Dec 12, 1941

Hitler begins his Final Solution

Increases the killing of Jews even by removing some of his elite troops from the front lines to work in concentration camps.

Jan 16, 1942

WWII War Production Board created by Franklin D Roosevelt

Feb 19, 1942

Japanese Internment Camps begin

Japanese are required to report to internment camps because of fear of espionage during WWII

Apr 18, 1942

Doolittle's Raid on Toyko

Jun 4, 1942

Battle of Midway begins

Jul 17, 1942

Battle of Stalingrad begins

May 12, 1943

Rommel surrenders in North Aftrica

Jun 6, 1944

D day invasion of French Coast

Dec 16, 1944

Battle of the Bulge begins

Jan 20, 1945

FDR reelected President for the fourth time

Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference

Feb 19, 1945

Battle for Iwo Jima begins

May 8, 1945

Victory in Europe Day

Aug 6, 1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Aug 9, 1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

Aug 14, 1945

Victory over Japan day

Aug 17, 1945

Seven year occupation of Japan begins

Nov 20, 1945