Timeline Project

Sinking of the Titanic

Apr 2, 1912

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1910to1919.html

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

Dec 1, 1913

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling

The Panama Canal opens

Jan 1, 1914

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1910to1919.html

Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria

Bank failures begin

Jul 1, 1914

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.html

WWI

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Germany Declares War on Russia

Aug 1, 1914

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-world-war-erupts-in-europe

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

Apr 1, 1915

http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWaustriaA.htm

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm

Russian Communist Revolution begins

Feb 1, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution

Passage of the Selective Service Act

May 18, 1917

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917.aspx

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress

Jun 15, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

War Industries Board established to regulate prouction in WWI

Jul 28, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

Aug 10, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration

Worldwide Flu Epidemic Kills 30 Million

Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 1, 1920

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Jan 8, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points

Russia withdraws from WWI

Mar 3, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk

National War Labor established by Woodrow Wilson

Apr 8, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Labor_Board

Armistice ends World War I

Nov 11, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918

Passage of Prohibition and the end of Prohibition

Period: Jan 16, 1919 to Dec 5, 1933

http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition

Eighteenth Amendment Passed

Jan 29, 1919

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles estalishing the peace at the end of WWI

Jun 28, 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles

Hitler comes to power in Germany

Sep 1, 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power

Palmer Raids

Jan 2, 1920

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Steel Strike Ends

Jan 8, 1920

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Garvey Conference

Aug 1, 1920

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Nineteenth Amendment

Aug 18, 1920

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Herbert Hoover elected President

Mar 5, 1921

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1928

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Oct 31, 1922

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

President Harding Dies

Aug 2, 1923

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

Jul 28, 1924

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm

F. Scott Fitzgerald publises "Gatsby"

Apr 1, 1925

http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/timeline.html

Hirohito becomes emporer of Japan

Dec 25, 1926

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

May 21, 1927

http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

Jun 18, 1928

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart

The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"

Oct 24, 1929

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes

Boulder Dam Project begins

Jan 1, 1931

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

Japan invades Northern China

Aug 8, 1931

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria

Japan conquers Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria

Hitler sets up Dachau

Jan 1, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

Civilian Conservation Corps

Jan 1, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

FDR elected President-once-twice-three-four times

Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

First Fireside Chat by FDR

Mar 12, 1933

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html

Agricultural Adjustment Act

May 12, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act

Dust Bowl

Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

Congress creates SEC

Jun 16, 1934

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission

Congress passes the Social Security Act

Jan 17, 1935

https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

Works Progress Administration established

Apr 8, 1935

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wpa-established-by-congress

Civil War in Spain

Jul 17, 1936

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

Jesse Owens wins four gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

Aug 9, 1936

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal

Hindenburg Disaster

May 6, 1937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

Kristallnacht - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

Nov 9, 1938

http://www.history.com/topics/kristallnacht

Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland

WWII

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare War

Sep 9, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Triparye Pact

Sep 27, 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

Feb 1, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/erwin-rommel-erwin

Lend Lease Act

Mar 1, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - US enters WWII

Dec 7, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor

WWII Production Board Created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board

Japanese Internment Camps begin

Feb 19, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

Battle of Midway

Jun 3, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference

Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

V-E Day and V-J Day

May 8, 1945

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ve-and-vj-days-1945

Bombing of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

Nuremburg War Trials

Nov 20, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

Seven Year occupatioon of Japan by United States

Apr 28, 1952

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan