WWI-Great Depression-WWII By otter_lizard1617 Feb 23, 1870 Southern states pass laws to disenfranchise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_Era Jul 29, 1883 Benito Mussolini appointed Prim Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini Apr 29, 1901 Hirohito becomes emperor of japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito Dec 17, 1903 Wright Brothers first flight http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm Feb 18, 1905 Russian Communist Revolution begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-ferdinand-assassinated Period: Jun 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI Jul 28, 1914 WW1 http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/timeline.html May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm Feb 18, 1917 Russia Withdraws from WWI http://classroom.synonym.com/significance-russian-withdrawal-wwi-5281.html Mar 1, 1917 "Zimmerman telegram" http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/zimmermann-telegram-published-in-united-states May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917 Jun 1, 1917 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition Acts passed by Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917 Jul 8, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Point Peace Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles Feb 18, 1918 Worldwide Flu Epidemic kills 30 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic Feb 18, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Labor_Board Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points Feb 18, 1919 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_I Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles Jun 28, 1919 Hitler comes to power in Germany http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671 Period: Jan 17, 1920 to Dec 5, 1933 Passage of Prohibition and the end of Prohibiton Feb 19, 1920 Bank Failures begin http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.html May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected President https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1928 May 21, 1929 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic ocean in a solo flight http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight Oct 19, 1929 Congress creates the SEC https://www.investor.gov/introduction-markets/role-sec Oct 29, 1929 Black Tuesday http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes Feb 23, 1930 Dust Bowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Jan 1, 1939 Dust Bowl Sep 18, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria Feb 19, 1932 Hoover disbands bonus Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army Feb 19, 1933 FDR elected President https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt Feb 19, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps Feb 19, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp Feb 23, 1933 Passage of Prohibition http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition May 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps Jan 19, 1935 Congress passes the social security act https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html Feb 19, 1935 boulder dam http://www.history.com/topics/hoover-dam Feb 19, 1935 FDR elected president for the second time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt Feb 19, 1935 Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at olympics in Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration established http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-broadcasts-first-fireside-chat Jul 17, 1936 Civil War in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster Jul 7, 1937 Japan invades Northern China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War Feb 19, 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act_of_1938 Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht- Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods [www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm ](www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm ) Feb 19, 1939 Japanese Internment Camps begin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland, Britian and France Declare war Feb 19, 1940 FDR elected for the thrid term http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-re-elected-president Sep 17, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact Feb 19, 1941 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/erwin-rommel-erwin Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/fdr-and-lend-lease-act Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164 Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Sep 2, 1945 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor- U.S. enters WWII Jan 16, 1942 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion http://www.army.mil/d-day/ Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference Feb 19, 1945 FDR elected for a fourth term http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-re-elected-president Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima Feb 23, 1945 Nuremburg War Trials http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nuremberg-trials Feb 23, 1945 Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1900_occupation.htm May 8, 1945 V-E Day and V-J Day http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ve-and-vj-days-1945 Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki Aug 21, 1959 Alaska and Hawaii become states http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-signs-hawaii-statehood-bill Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis Apr 10, 1963 Nuclear Submarine lost in Atlantic with 129 aboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593) Nov 22, 1963 Kennedy Assassination http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated Feb 21, 1965 Malcom X assassinates http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated Jan 27, 1973 Paris Peace Accords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords Mar 17, 1977 British evacuate Boston http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-evacuate-boston
