The Good Ole Day 1917 to 1941

By tbaay3

  • 1917: The United States enters the first World War

  • The End of the First World War - Versailles Conference

  • Treaty of Versailles - Germany loses annexed lands and colonies

  • Senate Rejects to join League of Nations

  • The World Series

    the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees

  • Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff,

  • President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke

  • Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion

  • The Great Gatsby is published

  • Mussolini is shot 3 times by Violet Gibson in Rome, only hitting him in the nose

  • The Jazz Singer- first talking movie

  • sliced bread invented

  • Stock Market crashes- The Great Depression begins

  • Pluto discovered

  • U.S. Officially Gets National Anthem

  • Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic

  • First Nazi Concentration Camp Established

  • The Great Terror Begins in the Soviet Union

  • Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws

  • All German Boys Must Join Hitler Youth

  • The Hindenburg disaster

  • War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast Causes Panic

  • World War II Begins

  • Auschwitz Opens

  • Nazis Begin Killing Adults and Children With Mental and Physical Disabilities as Part of Their Aktion T-4 Program