WWI-Great Depression-WWII

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

Dec 1, 1913

Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

Austria-Hungary Surrenders to the Allies

Jul 5, 1914

(dingeengoete.blogspot.com)

World War I

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

The Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

(eyewitnesstohistory.com) (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm)

Selective Service Act

May 18, 1917

(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act)

War Industries Board established to regulate production to WWI

Jul 28, 1917

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

Aug 10, 1917

(warathomewwi.weebly.com0)

Russian Communist Revolution begins

Nov 6, 1917

Worldwide Flu Epidemic kills 30 million

Jan 1, 1918

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Jan 8, 1918

Russia Withdraws from World War I

Mar 3, 1918

(stojanovik.wix.com)

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

Apr 8, 1918

(ushist3b.wikispaces.com)

Espionage and Sedition Acts passed by congress

May 16, 1918

(skepticism.org)

Armistice Ends World War I

Nov 11, 1918

(jimblazsik.wordpress.com)

Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

Jan 19, 1919

(www.history.com)

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

Jun 28, 1919

(www.ww1westernfront.gov.au)

Hitler Comes to Power in Germany

Sep 30, 1919

(hubpages.com)

Kleenex was Invented

Oct 14, 1920

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Oct 31, 1922

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan

Dec 25, 1926

(www.ducksters.com)

Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic in a Solo Flight

Jun 17, 1928

(www.history.com)

Herbert Hoover elected president

Nov 6, 1928

(www.biography.com)

Anne Frank's birthday

Jun 12, 1929

(factslides.com)

The Stock Market Crash Black Tuesday

Oct 29, 1929

(www.history.com)

Bank Failures

Oct 15, 1930

(www.livinghistoryfarm.org)

Boulder Dam Project begins

Jan 10, 1931

(www.pddnet.com)

Japan invades Northern China

Sep 18, 1931

(histclo.com)

Japan Conquered Manchuria

Feb 27, 1932

(historylearningsite.co.uk)

Hoover Disbands the Bonus Army

Jul 28, 1932

(www.authentichistory.com)

FDR was Elected President for the First Time

Nov 7, 1932

(biography.com)

First Fireside Chat

Mar 12, 1933

(history.com)

Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.

Mar 12, 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps

Mar 21, 1933

(thinglink.com)

Hitler Sets Up Dachau

Mar 22, 1933

(history.com)

Dust Bowl

Period: May 9, 1934 to Oct 8, 1939

Congress Creates the SEC

Jul 2, 1934

(insidertrading.procon.org)

Elvis Presley's birthday

Jan 8, 1935

Elvis Presley is a singer from the 1950s

Works Progress Administation

Apr 8, 1935

Congress Passes the Social Security Act

Aug 14, 1935

Civil War in Spain

Jul 18, 1936

(history.com)

Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals at the Olympics in Germany

Aug 9, 1936

(history.com)

FDR Gets Elected Second Time

Nov 3, 1936

(shmoop.com)

The Hindenburg Disaster

May 6, 1937

(history.com)

Agricultural Adjustment act

Feb 16, 1938

(law.cornell.edu)

Orson Wells broadcasts the War of the Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

Kristallnacht - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938

(history.com)

Hitler and Stalin sign Non-Aggression Act

Aug 23, 1939

(history.com)

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

(history.com)

Germany Invades Poland, France, and Britain to Declare War

Sep 3, 1939

(history.com)

The German army invades the Netherlands

May 10, 1940

(scholastic.com)

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the TRIPLARTITE pact

Sep 27, 1940

(history.com)

FDR Gets Elected Third Time

Nov 5, 1940

(shmoop.com)

Lend Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

(history.com)

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

(history.com)

Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor

Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Dec 11, 1941

(history.co.uk)

WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1942

(archives.gov)

Japanese Interment Camp begins

Feb 19, 1942

(history.com)

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

(history.com)

German General Rommel Surrenders North Africa

May 13, 1943

(history.com)

Congress passed the War Labor Disputes

Jun 25, 1943

(pbs.org)

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

(history.com)

6 bomber crewmen were killed for each one wounded

Jun 6, 1944

(history.com)

General Friedrich von Rabenau was arrested in the aftermath of the plot which culminated in the attempt on Hitler’s life

Jul 20, 1944

(gravestone.com)

FDR Elected the Fourth Time

Nov 7, 1944

(shmoop.com)

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 10, 1944 to Jan 16, 1945

(history.com)

Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war, died on the Eastern Front.

Jan 31, 1945

(http://armedforcesmuseum.com/)

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

(history.com)

Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

(history.com)

VE Day and VJ Day

May 8, 1945

(history.com)

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

(history.com)

Seven Year Occupation of Japan by the United States

Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Sep 28, 1952

(history.com)

Nuremburg War Trials

Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Apr 12, 1949

(history.com)

Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary, "When I write I can shake off all my cares. (...) But (...) will I ever be able to write something great?"

Jun 25, 1947

(factslides.com)