WWI - Great Depression - WWII By $Dylan$ & $Ben$ Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly line to African American Workers Mar 18, 1914 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies Jun 28, 1914 *Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI Jan 4, 1915 Germany Begins submarine warfare Jan 15, 1915 Battle of Jassin Apr 12, 1915 Battle of Shaiba Apr 29, 1915 London Treaty May 1, 1915 Battle of EEski Hissarlik May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania Dec 20, 1915 Troops withdraw form Anzac Cove Feb 27, 1917 Battle of Buqqar Ridge Mar 8, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins Apr 1, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover Oct 1, 1917 Russia withdraws from WWI Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilsons 14 Points Proposal Feb 18, 1918 Worldwide Flu epidemic kills 30 million Apr 12, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow WIlson May 16, 1918 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress Nov 11, 1918 *Armistice ends World War I Jun 28, 1919 *Signing of The Treaty of Versailles Jan 29, 1920 Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition May 1, 1922 Benito Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy Dec 15, 1926 Hirohito Becomes Emporer of Japan May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh Makes first Transatlantic Flight Mar 1, 1928 Boulder Dam Project Begins Jun 17, 1928 Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a Single Flight Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected President Oct 24, 1929 *The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday" Jan 1, 1930 Bank Failures Begin Feb 1, 1930 Dust Bowl Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Northern China Sep 18, 1931 The Japanese invasion of Manchuria Jul 28, 1932 Hoover disbands the Bonus Army Feb 1, 1933 FDR elected President-once Feb 27, 1933 Setting up concentration camps, including the Dachau camp, Mar 1, 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany Mar 12, 1933 First Freeside Chat by FDR Apr 10, 1933 The Civilan Concervation Corps Start May 3, 1933 Agricultural Act Jun 3, 1933 Congress Creates SEC Apr 8, 1935 WPA Established Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act Feb 18, 1936 Jesse Owens won four gold medals, Jul 17, 1936 Civial War in Spain Nov 3, 1936 FDR elected President May 6, 1937 Hindenberg Disaster Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles brodcasted war Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Aug 23, 1939 Treaty of Nonaggression Sep 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland Sep 3, 1939 The Declaration of war by France and the United Kingdom Nov 5, 1940 FDR elected President Jun 22, 1941 Hitler Invades the Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Dec 18, 1941 Lend-Lease Jan 16, 1942 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps begin Jun 1, 1942 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa Jun 5, 1943 The Battle of Midway Jun 6, 1944 *D-Day Invasion Dec 16, 1944 The Battle of the Bulge Jan 20, 1945 FDR elected President Feb 18, 1945 Seven Year Occupation Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima Feb 20, 1945 Yalta Conference May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nov 20, 1945 Nuremberg trials
