Major Events of WWl

By Taddy

  • Southern and Eastern Europe immigrants poured into the United States

  • Parliament passed a home-rule bill

  • 18th Amendment ratified

  • Red Scare set off in Russia

  • Red Scare set off in Russia

  • New Technology helped to create a mass culture.

  • Jazz Age

  • African American cultural awaking called the Harlem Renaissance began

  • Conservatives passed legislation limiting the poewr if workers to strike

  • a general strike lasted nine days and involved some three million workers

  • jitters about the economy caused people to sell theri stocks at once

  • United States Congress pass a series of Neutrality Acts

  • Federal Reserve increasd the interest rate, with even more disatrous effect

  • Italy invaded Ethiopia

  • German planes dropped theri bombs on Guernica

  • Hitler was ready to engineer the Anschluss

    Anschluss: or union of Austria and Germany

  • Natzi forces stormed into Poland

  • The Maginot Line was built to pervent a third invation

  • The Maginot Line was built to pervent a third invation

  • Hitler launched a blitzkreg against Norway