WWI-Great Depression-WWII

the assassination of the arch duke franz ferdinand and his wife sophie

Jun 28, 1914

In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I

WWI

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

The First World War killed 17 million people

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

Aug 5, 1914

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_I

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral

Aug 19, 1914

28th President of the United States

First Westernfront Trenches Are Dug

Sep 15, 1914

First trenches of the Western front are dug.

The unofficial Christmas truce is declared.

Dec 24, 1914

was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas 1914

Germany responds to U.S. anger by ceasing to sink ships without warning.

Feb 22, 1915

Germany responds to U.S. anger by ceasing to sink ships without warning.

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

[One thousand one hundred nineteen of the 1,924 aboard died](www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm)

tsar nicholas takes command of the russian armies

Sep 5, 1915

Tsar Nicholas takes command of the Russian armies.

British Use Gas in battle

Sep 15, 1915

British use gas in battle near Loos, but shifting winds cause 60,000 British casualties.

Russia Withdrawls from WWI

Jan 1, 1917

Germany again declaires unrestricted submarine warfare

Feb 1, 1917

Germany again declares unrestricted submarine warfare.

Russian Communist Revolution begins

Mar 1, 1917

revolution focused around Petrograd

passage of the Selectie Service Act

Apr 1, 1917

was the first act mandating American military service since the Civil War

Espionage Act

Jun 1, 1917

postal officials the authority to ban newspapers and magazines from the mail

War Industries Board establishd to regulate production in WWI

Jul 28, 1917

to coordinate the purchase of war supplies

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

Aug 10, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration

Sedition Act

Jan 1, 1918

made it a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language"

Worldwide flu Epidemic kills 30 million

Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Jan 1, 1919

killed more people than the Great War

Woodrow Wilson Presents his fourteen points peace plan

Jan 8, 1918

Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

Apr 8, 1918

It was composed of twelve representatives

Red Barron is shot down

Apr 21, 1918

Richthofen received a fatal wound just after 11:00 am on 21 April 1918, while flying over Morlancourt Ridge

Armistice ends world war 1

Nov 11, 1918

the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front

passage of prohibition start and end

Period: Jan 16, 1919 to Jan 1, 1933

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/prohibition-ends

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

Jun 28, 1919

one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I

Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime minister of Italy

Apr 28, 1922

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Benito-Mussolini

Hirohito becomes emperor of japan

Dec 25, 1926

following the death of his father, Hirohito succeeded him as emperor

My Grandfather was born

May 7, 1927

My grandfather serverd in WWII

Charles Lindbergh makes the transatlantic flight

May 20, 1927

http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/

Amelia Earhart crosses the atlantic in solo flight

Jan 1, 1928

she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger on a trans-Atlantic airplane flight

Herbert Hoover elected president

Nov 6, 1928

was the 31st President of the United States

Bank Failures Begin

Jan 1, 1930

http://www.history.com/topics/bank-run

boulder dam project begins

Jan 1, 1931

<a href='' >http://www.bechtel.com/projects/hoover-dam/</a>

Dust Bowl

Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Jan 1, 1939

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/dust-bowl-cause.htm

Japan conquers Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931

Hoover dibands the bonus army

Jul 28, 1932

1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945

FDR is elected for the first time

Nov 1, 1932

Hitler rises to power in germany

Jan 1, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Jan 1, 1933

To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities

Congress Creates the SEC

Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Jan 1, 1934

Congress creates the SEC

Hitler sets up Dachau

Feb 27, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

Mar 12, 1933

President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the first of his radio-broadcast fireside chats

The Civilian Conservation Corps in established

Apr 10, 1933

the Works Progress Admiknestration is established

Apr 8, 1935

social security act passed

Aug 14, 1935

jessie owens wins 4 gold metals at olympics in germany

Jan 1, 1936

an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist

Spainish Civil War

Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939

The Spainish start and finish their civil war in three years.

FDR is elected for the secon time

Nov 3, 1936

Hindenburg Disaster

May 6, 1937

caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock

The Japinese invade northern China

Jul 7, 1937

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

Kristallnacht- hitler destroys jewish neighborhoods

Nov 9, 1938

Hitler began promulgating legal actions against Germany's Jews

Henry Ford lets African Americans work on the assembly line

Aug 1, 1939

http://blog.thehenryford.org/2013/02/african-american-workers-at-ford-motor-company/

Hitler and Stalin sign the Non aggression pact

Aug 23, 1939

germany inades poland

Sep 1, 1939

One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives

Britian and France declare wr on Gerany

Sep 3, 1939

Tripatite Pact Signed

Sep 27, 1940

was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan

FDR is elected for the third time

Nov 5, 1940

Lend lease act passed

Mar 11, 1941

Bismarck is sunk

May 21, 1941

her steering gear knocked out by a torpedo and unable to maneuver, is finally cornered and sunk by ships and planes from the Royal Navy

German General Rommel surrenders

Jun 19, 1941

Hitler invaded the soviet union

Jun 22, 1941

Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941

Pearl Harbor Attack

Dec 7, 1941

a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy

The WWII War Production Board was created

Jan 16, 1942

Japanese Internment Camps Begin

Feb 19, 1942

between 110,000 and 120,000[2] people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.

The battle of Midway

Jun 3, 1942

D-day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe

Batlle of the bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

major German offensive campaign

FDR is elected for the fourth time

Jan 20, 1945

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.

The battle of Iwo Jimba

Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

V-E day and V-J day

May 8, 1945

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

The Nuremburg War Trials

Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946

Seven year occupation of japan by united states

Sep 8, 1951

The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers