WWI-Great Depression-WWII 2015-16 By barnett8 Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie history channel May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania wikipedia Jan 8, 1917 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Pionts Peace Plan wikipedia Mar 8, 1917 Russia Communist Revolution begins history channel May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act encylopedia Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress wikipedia Jul 18, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI wikipedia Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover Oct 26, 1917 Russia withdraws from WWI bbc Jan 1, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson history channel Jan 1, 1918 Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million stanfordunviersityy</a> Nov 11, 1918 Amistice ends World War I wikipedia Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1933 Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition history channel Aug 18, 1920 19th amendment shmoop Oct 1, 1921 Baseball world series broadcasted Jan 1, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy history channel Jan 1, 1923 Yankee Stadium built Jan 1, 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan wikipedia May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight charles lindbergh Sep 30, 1927 Babe Ruth's 60th homerun Jan 1, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected President wikipedia Nov 18, 1928 Mickey Mouse created Jan 1, 1929 The Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday" history channel Jan 1, 1930 Bank failures begin living history farm Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Jan 1, 1939 Dust Bowl wikipedia Jul 7, 1930 Boulder Dam Project begins wikipedia Jan 1, 1931 Al Capone imprisoned Jan 1, 1931 US officially gets national anthem Jan 1, 1932 air condition invented Feb 1, 1932 Japan conquers Manchuria wikipedia May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight history channel Jan 1, 1933 Hilter sets up Dachau wikipedia Jan 1, 1933 Lochness monster first spotted Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Jan 1, 1942 Civilian Conservation Corps wikipedia Mar 4, 1933 FDR elected as president wikipedia Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR american rhetoric Jan 1, 1934 Congress creates the SEC investor.org Aug 19, 1934 Hitler comes to power in Germany ushmm.org Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration established history channel Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act ssa.gov Jul 17, 1936 Civil War in Spain wikipedia Aug 9, 1936 Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany history channel Jan 1, 1937 FDR elected second time NY times May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster wikipedia Jul 1, 1937 Japan invades Northern China Wiley online library Jan 1, 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act wikipedia Jan 1, 1938 Superman first appears in comic books Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds history channel Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass) ushmm.org Period: Jan 1, 1939 to Jan 1, 1945 WWII wikipedia Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression pact history channel Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland history channel Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland and Britian and France declare war history channel Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact history channel Jan 1, 1941 FDR elected third time history channel Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease act wikipedia Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union ushmm.org Dec 7, 1941 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor - US enters war history channel Jan 16, 1942 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt wikipedia Period: Jun 3, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942 Battle of Midway wikipedia Period: Jan 1, 1944 to Jan 1, 1945 Japanese Interment Camps begin ushistory.org Jun 6, 1944 D-Day invasion history channel Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bugle wikipedia Jan 1, 1945 FDR elected fourth time history channel Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1952 Seven year occupation of Japan by United States history.state.gov Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Conference history channel Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945 Iwo Jima wikipedia May 8, 1945 V-E Day history channel Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki history channel Aug 15, 1945 V-J Day wikipedia
