WWl-Great Depression-WWll By pasamples Apr 15, 1912 Titanic Sinks Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Jul 11, 1914 Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War I Wikipedia May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania Wikipedia Mar 8, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution Begins Wikipedia May 18, 1917 Passage of Selective Service Act Wikipedia Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition scts passed by Congresss Wikepedia Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWl Wikipedia Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover Wikipedia Jan 1, 1918 Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million Wikipedia Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan Wikipedia Mar 3, 1918 Russia withdraws from WWl Wikipedia Apr 8, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson Wikipedia Nov 3, 1918 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies Spartacus Educational Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends World War I Wikipedia Jun 19, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI Wikipedia Jan 16, 1920 Prohibition Begins Period: Jan 17, 1920 to Jun 17, 1933 Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition Historic Patterson Oct 29, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy Wikipedia Jul 24, 1925 Hoover disbands the Bonus army Wikipedia Dec 25, 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan Wikipedia May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight Wikipedia Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected President Wikepedia<a href= Feb 14, 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre Oct 29, 1929 The stock market crashes "Black Tuesday" Wikipedia Nov 1, 1929 Bank failures begin Wikipedia Jan 1, 1931 Boulder Dam Project begins Wikipedia Mar 3, 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes National Anthem May 1, 1931 Empire State Building Opened Sep 19, 1931 Japan invades Northern China Wikipedia Feb 27, 1932 Japan conquers Manchuria May 21, 1932 Amelia Earhart crosses Atlantic in a solo flight Wikipedia Mar 4, 1933 FDR elected President Wikipedia Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR Mar 22, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau Apr 5, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps Wikipedia May 12, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act Dec 5, 1933 Prohibition Repealed Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1940 Dust Bowl Wikipedia Jun 6, 1934 Congress creates the SEC Wikipedia Aug 2, 1934 Hitler comes to power in Germany Wikipedia Apr 8, 1935 Works Progress Administration established Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act Wikipedia Jul 17, 1936 Civil War in Spain Wikipedia Aug 1, 1936 Jesse Owen wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany Wikepedia Nov 3, 1936 FDR re-elected President (second time) Shmoop May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster Wikipedia Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the War of the Worlds Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)-Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods Jan 1, 1939 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers Solidarity Aug 28, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non Aggression Pact Sep 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland Wikipedia Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War II Wikipedia Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare war Sep 27, 1940 Japn, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact Nov 5, 1940 FDR elected President (third time) Shmoop Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act Jun 22, 1941 Hitler Invades the Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor- U.S. enters WWII Wikipedia Jan 16, 1942 WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt Feb 19, 1942 Japenese Internment Camps begin Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway May 13, 1943 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion Nov 7, 1944 FDR re-elected President (fourth time) Shmoop Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima Apr 12, 1945 FDR dies while in office May 8, 1945 V-E Day (Victory in Europe) Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 V-J Day (Victory in Japan) Period: Sep 3, 1945 to Apr 18, 1952 Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States Oct 1, 1946 Nuremburg War Trials Oct 14, 1947 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier Jan 1, 1948 Berlin Airlift
