WWI Great Depression-WWII By mwswedowski Aug 10, 1874 Herbert Hoover elected President http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/herbert-hoover Apr 29, 1901 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito Oct 1, 1908 Model T production http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-motor-company-unveils-the-model-t Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-ferdinand-assassinated Jul 28, 1914 WWl http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania (Sister ship to the Titanic) http://www.history.com/news/the-sinking-of-rms-lusitania-100-years-ago Jan 8, 1917 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wilson-outlines-the-fourteen-points May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-espionage-act Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWl http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/war-industries-board.htm Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/food-rationing-in-wartime-america Oct 24, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins It happens also on the Oct. 25th and Nov. 6th and 7th https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution-of-1917 Mar 3, 1918 Russia withdraws from WWl http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/russia-makes-a-separate-peace Sep 29, 1918 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/ww1/section11.rhtml Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends World War 1 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends Dec 28, 1918 Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ Jan 29, 1919 Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition (Labeled as a Time Period) http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWll http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles Oct 29, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed prime Minister of Italy http://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-mussolini May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp Oct 1, 1929 Bank failures begin http://www.history.com/topics/bank-run Oct 1, 1929 Congress creates the SEC https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/basics/role-sec Oct 29, 1929 The Stock Market Crashes " Black Tuesday" http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes Jan 1, 1931 Dust Bowl The dust bowl when from 1931 to about 1939 http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/ReferenceDetailsPage/DocumentToolsPortletWindow?jsid=0cacde88913816396022f455b1bddd97&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3424800020&userGroupName=nysl_ro_ironhs&zid=a24f908894dee181373628d8d34f05c1 Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades northern china http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/sino-japanese-war Sep 18, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight Jul 28, 1932 Hoover disbands the Bonus Army http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=23227 Nov 8, 1932 FDR First Election https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1932 Jan 30, 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671 Mar 10, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps. http://www.history.com/topics/civilian-conservation-corps Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside chat by FDR http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html Mar 17, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/dachau May 12, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html Nov 3, 1934 FDR Second Election http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/nov-3-1936-franklin-roosevelt-re-elected-in-landslide/?_r=0 Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration established http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wpa-established-by-congress Jun 17, 1935 First Radar made by Britain https://www.britannica.com/technology/radar/History-of-radar Aug 14, 1935 Congress passed the Social Security Act https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html Sep 30, 1935 Boulder Dam Project begins http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-hoover-dam Jan 1, 1936 First Voice Recognition Machine http://www.pcworld.com/article/243060/speech_recognition_through_the_decades_how_we_ended_up_with_siri.html Jul 17, 1936 Civil War In Spain http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/history/the-spanish-civil-war Aug 9, 1936 Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals At Olympics In Germany http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal Apr 1, 1937 First Jet Engine https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Whittle May 6, 1937 Hindenburg Disaster http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles Broadcasts WAR of the Worlds http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht(night of the broken glass)-Hitler bestroys Jewish neighborhoods https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201 Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non agression 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 14, 1939 First working Helicopter made http://connecticuthistory.org/worlds-first-helicopter-today-in-history/ Mar 23, 1940 Colored Tv http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/color60s/ Jul 18, 1940 FDR Third Election http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-nominated-for-unprecedented-third-term Sep 27, 1940 Japan Germany and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tripartite-pact-is-signed-by-germany-italy-and-japan Feb 20, 1941 First Jeep Invented http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-2F1 Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act Jun 10, 1941 Z3 Computer is Developed http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Z3-Computer-1939.htm Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa Dec 7, 1941 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor(WWII) http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor Jan 12, 1942 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-recreates-the-national-war-labor-board Jan 16, 1942 WWII Production Board Created by Roosevelt https://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_war_production.htm Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps Begin http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation May 22, 1942 Digital Computer created http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-pc Jun 7, 1942 Battle of Midway http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway Dec 1, 1943 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/erwin-rommel-erwin Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day Nov 7, 1944 FDR Fourth Election http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-wins-unprecedented-fourth-term Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima Feb 27, 1945 Seven Year Occupation of Japan https://www.britannica.com/event/occupation-of-Japan May 8, 1945 V-E day and V-J Day http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day Jul 16, 1945 First Atomic Bomb Exploded http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-atomic-bomb-test-is-successfully-exploded Aug 6, 1946 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki Oct 1, 1946 Nuremberg War Trials http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nuremberg-trials