WWI-Great Depression-WWII By maworzella Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie history.com Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI [history.com](http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania (sister ship of the Titanic) history.com Mar 8, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins history.com May 18, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act history.com Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress history.com Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI american-historama.com Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover easternct.edu Jan 1, 1918 Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million history.com Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan history.com Mar 1, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson u-s-history.com Mar 3, 1918 Russia withdraws from WWI history.com Nov 3, 1918 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies historyplace.com Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends World War I history.com Jan 1, 1919 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers essaysinhisory.com Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI history.com Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1933 Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition history.com Aug 18, 1920 Women can vote history.com Jan 1, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy history.com Jan 1, 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan history.com May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight history.com Oct 29, 1929 The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday" history.com Nov 6, 1929 Herbert Hoover elected President history.com Jan 1, 1930 Bank failures begin history.com Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Northern China mtholyoke.edu May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight history.com Jul 5, 1932 Hoover disbands the Bonus Army ushistory.org Sep 1, 1932 Japan conquers Manchuria mtholyoke.edu Nov 8, 1932 FDR elected for first term Presidency biography.com Jan 30, 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany history.com Mar 1, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps pbs.org Mar 1, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau history.com Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR history.com May 1, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act britannica.com Jan 1, 1934 Congress creates the SEC history.com Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1937 Dust Bowl history.com Jan 8, 1935 Elvis Presley is born biography.com Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration established history.com Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act ssa.gov Sep 30, 1935 Boulder Dam Project begins history.com Jul 18, 1936 Civil War in Spain history.com Aug 9, 1936 Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany history.com Nov 3, 1936 FDR elected for second term Presidency biography.com May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster history.com Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds history.com Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass) - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods history.com Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact history.com Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland history.com Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII nationalgeographic.com Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare War history.com Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact history.com Nov 5, 1940 FDR elected for third term Presidency biography.com Feb 12, 1941 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa history.com Mar 1, 1941 Lend Lease Act history.com Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union history.com Oct 31, 1941 Mount Rushmore completed nps.gov Dec 8, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII history.com Jan 1, 1942 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt infoplease.com Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps begin history.com Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway history.com Nov 22, 1943 Tennis player Billie Jean King is born biography.com Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion history.com Aug 9, 1944 Smokey the Bear is created sdda.sd.gov Nov 5, 1944 FDR elected for fourth term Presidency biography.com Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge history.com Jan 1, 1945 Seven Year Occupation of Japan by United States history.state.gov Feb 1, 1945 Iwo Jima history.com Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference history.com May 8, 1945 V-E Day and V-J Day (Victory in Europe and Victory in Japan) 20thcenturylondon.org Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima history.com Aug 9, 1945 Bombing of Nagasaki history.com Jan 1, 1946 Nuremberg War Trials history.com Oct 2, 1947 Miracle on 34th Street released imdb.com Mar 4, 1950 Cinderella is released imdb.com Dec 23, 1954 First successful organ transplant liveonny.org Jul 17, 1955 Disneyland opens history.com Mar 9, 1959 The Barbie Doll is invented history.com
