Timeline: WWI-Great Depression-WWII | Timetoast

Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Jan 1, 1918

WWI

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Jun 28, 1914

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

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May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

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Jan 1, 1917

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

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Period: Jan 1, 1917 to Feb 1, 1933

Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

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Jan 8, 1917

Woodrow Wilson presents Fourteen Points Peace Plan

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Mar 18, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution begins

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May 18, 1917

Passage of the Selective Service Act

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Jun 15, 1917

Espionage act passed by Congress

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Jul 28, 1917

War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI

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Jan 1, 1918

Russia withdraws from WWI

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Jan 1, 1918

Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

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Mar 1, 1918

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

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May 16, 1918

Sedition act passed by Congress

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Oct 30, 1918

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

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Nov 11, 1918

Armistice ends World War I

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Jan 1, 1919

Henry Ford opens up his assembly lines to African American workers

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May 1, 1919

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

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Jun 28, 1919

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

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Oct 1, 1922

Benito Mussolini is appointed the Prime Minister of Italy

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Jan 1, 1928

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

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Jan 1, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected president

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Jan 1, 1929

Bank failures begin

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Oct 29, 1929

The Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday"

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Jul 7, 1930

Boulder Dam Project begins

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Jan 1, 1931

Japan conquers Manchuria

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Jan 1, 1932

FDR elected president first time

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Jan 1, 1932

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

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Jul 18, 1932

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

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Jan 1, 1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

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Jan 1, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act

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Jan 1, 1933

Civilian Conservative Corps

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Jan 1, 1933

Hitler sets up Dachau

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Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

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Jan 1, 1934

Congress creates SEC

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Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1937

Dust Bowl

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Jan 1, 1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act

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Apr 8, 1935

Works Progress Administration established

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Jan 1, 1936

Jesse Owens wins four Gold Metals at Olympics in Germany

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Jul 18, 1936

Civil War in Spain

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Jan 1, 1937

FDR elected second time

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May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

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May 17, 1938

Naval Expansion Act

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Oct 30, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

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Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

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Jan 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland

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Jan 1, 1939

Hitler is named the Time Man of the Year

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Jun 6, 1939

St. Louis refusal

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Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin sign the Non-aggression Pact

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Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany

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Period: Sep 1, 1939 to May 8, 1945

World War II

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Jan 1, 1940

FDR elected third time

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Sep 27, 1940

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

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Jan 1, 1941

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

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Mar 11, 1941

Lend Lease Act

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Jun 22, 1941

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

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Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII

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Dec 18, 1941

Japan invades Northern China

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Jan 1, 1942

WWII War Production Board created by Roosevelt

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Jan 1, 1942

Japanese Internment Camps begin

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Jun 4, 1942

Battle of Midway

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Nov 8, 1942

U.S. troops land in Africa

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Sep 8, 1943

Italy surrenders to the Allies

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Jan 1, 1944

FDR elected fourth time

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Period: Jan 1, 1944 to Jan 1, 1945

Battle of the Bulge

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Jun 6, 1944

D-Day Invasion

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Jun 22, 1944

G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law

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Jan 1, 1945

Iwo Jima

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Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1952

Seven year occupation of Japan by United States

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Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference

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Apr 12, 1945

FDR dies in office of a cerebral hemorrhage

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Apr 28, 1945

Mussolini dies

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May 1, 1945

Hitler commits suicide

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May 8, 1945

V-E Day

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Aug 6, 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Aug 14, 1945

V-J Day

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Nov 20, 1945

Nuremberg War Trials

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Sep 29, 2016

The Trinity Test, the first atomic bomb

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