Timeline: WWI-Great Depression-WWII | Timetoast

Nov 15, 1891

German General rommel surrenders in north africa

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Dec 1, 1913

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

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Jun 28, 1914

Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

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Jun 28, 1914

WWI

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May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

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Jan 16, 1917

Zimmermans note

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May 18, 1917

Passage of the Selective Service Act

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Jul 27, 1917

War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI

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Nov 6, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution begins

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Jan 1, 1918

worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

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Jan 8, 1918

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

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Mar 3, 1918

Russia withdraws from WWI

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Apr 8, 1918

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

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May 16, 1918

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress

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Nov 3, 1918

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

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Nov 11, 1918

*Armistice ends World War 1

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Nov 11, 1918

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

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Jul 1, 1919

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

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Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1933

Prohibition Era in the United States

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Jul 29, 1922

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of italy

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Jun 4, 1924

Hoover disbands the bonus army

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May 21, 1927

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop flight

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Nov 6, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected President

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Oct 24, 1929

*The stock market crashes "Black Tuesday"

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Jan 1, 1930

Bank failures begin

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Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Jan 1, 1940

Dust Bowl

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Jul 7, 1930

Boulder Dam Project begins

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Jul 7, 1931

Japan invades Northern china

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Sep 18, 1931

Japan conquers Manchuria

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May 21, 1932

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in solo flight

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Jan 1, 1933

Hitler sets up Dachau

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Jan 30, 1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

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Mar 1, 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps

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Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

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May 12, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act

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Jan 1, 1934

Congress creates the SEC

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May 6, 1935

Works Progress Administration established

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Aug 14, 1935

Congress passed the Social Security Act

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Jul 18, 1936

Civil War in Spain

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Aug 9, 1936

Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in germany

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May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

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Period: Jul 7, 1937 to Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor- U.S. enters World War ll

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Oct 30, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the worlds

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Nov 9, 1938

HItler destroys jewish neighborhoods (night of the falling glass)

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Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin sign non aggression pact

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Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades poland

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Sep 3, 1939

Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare war

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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

Japanese internment camps begin

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Jan 12, 1942

WWII war production board created by roosevelt

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Jun 4, 1944

Battle of midway

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Jun 6, 1944

*D-Day invasion

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Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Battle of the Bulge

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Feb 4, 1945

*yalta conference

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Feb 19, 1945

low Jima

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Aug 6, 1945

* Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Aug 28, 1945

Seven year occupation japan by united states

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Nov 20, 1945

Nuremburg war trials

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Apr 29, 1989

Hirohito becomes emperor of japan

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