Timeline of the World War and Beyond

By goveg
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assasinated

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assasinated

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia declares war on Germany

  • The Battle of Tannenberg begins

  • Battle of Ypres begins

  • Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain

  • The Second Battle of Ypres begins

  • The Battle of Verdun begins

  • The United States declares war on Germany

  • The Bolsheviks successfully overthrow the Russian government

  • Stock Market Crashes

    Stock Market Crashes

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

    Ends late 1930s to early 1940s.

  • Black Tuesday

  • Federal Reserve cut the prime interest rate from 6 to 4 percent

    Sometime in Feb.

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

  • FDR is Elected

  • Roosevelt Inauguration

  • The New Deal

    Proposed sometime in 1933 after FDR was inaugurated.

  • Longshoremen Strike

  • FDR Reelected

  • Nazi Rally in New York City

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • France and Britain declared war on Germany

  • Fascist Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

  • America declares war on Japan

  • Fascist Italy surrenders

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • German forces in Italy surrender

  • Germany surrenders (VE Day)

  • Japan surrenders (VJ Day)

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