WWI-Great Depression-WWII By FBC Jan 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American work History Jun 28, 1914 Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia Wikpedia Jul 5, 1914 Austria-Hungary surrenders to Allies Wikipedia Aug 3, 1914 Germany Invades Belgium Wikipedia May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania History Sep 15, 1916 First Tanks shmoop Feb 1, 1917 Subamrines Back shmoop Mar 8, 1917 Russia Communist Revolution Begins History May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act History Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress Wikipedia Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI Wikipedia Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover Wikipedia Jan 1, 1918 Worldwide Flu Epidemic kills 30 million virus Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan Wikipedia Feb 10, 1918 Russia Withdraws from WWI FirstWorldWar Apr 8, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson Wikipedia May 28, 1918 Battle of Catingy shmoop Nov 9, 1918 Wilhem Abdicates shmoop Nov 11, 1918 WWI Wikipedia Nov 11, 1918 Armitice ends WWI Wikipedia Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailes establishing the peace at the end of WWI Wikipedia Sep 1, 1919 Hitler comes to power in Germany Wikipedia Jan 1, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointd Prime Minister of Italy Wikipedia Dec 25, 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan Wikipedia May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop translantic flight Charles Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected president Wikipedia Oct 29, 1929 Black Tuesday investigations Sep 18, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria Wikipedia Nov 1, 1932 FDR elected President 1st time Wikipedia Mar 1, 1933 CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS History Mar 1, 1933 Bank Failures Begin Great Depression Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR History May 1, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act Wikipedia Dec 5, 1933 Passage of prohibtion and end of prohibition Wikipedia Jan 1, 1934 Dust Bowl Wikipedia Jan 1, 1934 Congress creates the SEC Investor Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration History Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act Wikipedia Sep 30, 1935 Boulder Dam Project begins Wikipedia Jan 1, 1936 Jesse Owens Wikipedia Jan 1, 1936 Civil war in Spain Wikipedia Jan 1, 1936 FDR elected President 2nd time Wikipedia May 6, 1937 Hindenburg Disaster Wikipedia Jul 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart crosses the atlantic in a solo flight History Period: Jul 7, 1937 to Sep 9, 1945 Japan Invades Northern China Wikipedia Oct 31, 1938 The War of the Worlds Wikipedia Nov 9, 1938 Night of the Falling Glass History Aug 23, 1939 Non aggression Pact History Sep 1, 1939 Germnay invades Poland History Sep 3, 1939 Germany Invades Poland Britain an France Declare war History Jan 1, 1940 FDR elected President 3rd time Wikipedia Sep 27, 1940 Tripartite Pact History Oct 28, 1940 Italy invdes Greece Wikipedia Mar 1, 1941 Bulgaria joins the axis History Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act History Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union Wikipedia Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Wikipedia Jan 16, 1942 War Production Board Wikipedia Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps Begin Wikipedia Period: Jun 3, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942 Battle of Midway Wikipedia Mar 1, 1943 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa History Nov 6, 1943 Soviet troop liberate Kiev History Jan 1, 1944 FDR elected President 4th time Wikipedia Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion History Oct 20, 1944 U.S. Troops land in the Philipines History Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge History Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1947 Seven Year Occupation of Japan by United States Wikipedia Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference Wikipedia Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945 Iwo Jima History Apr 1, 1945 Hitler sets up Dachau History May 8, 1945 V-E Day and V-J Day History Jul 28, 1945 Hoover disbands the Bonous Army Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Aug 15, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki History Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946 Nuremberg War Trials History
