-
Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferinand and his wife Sophie
-
Period: to
WW1
-
Sinking of the Lusitania
-
Passage of the Selective Servive Act
-
War Idustries Board established to regulate production in WW1
-
Russia withdrawrs from WW1
-
Period: to
Worldwide Flu epidemic kills thrity million
-
Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
-
Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
-
Armistice ends World War 1
-
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WW1
-
Period: to
Passage of Prohibition and End of Prohibition
-
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
-
Hirohito becomes emporer of Japan
-
Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop transatlantic filght
-
Herbert Hvooer elected President
-
The Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday"
-
Amelia Earhart crosses the Alantic in a solo filght
-
Hvooer disbands the Bonus Army
-
Hitler comes to power in Germany
-
FDR elected President
-
Hitler sets up Dachau
-
Civilian Conservation Corps
-
Boulder Dam Project begins
-
Congress creates the SEC
-
Congress passes the Social Security Act
-
Period: to
Civil War in Spain
-
Jesse Owens wins 4 Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany
-
FDR relected President
-
Hindenburg disaster
-
Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds
-
Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)- Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods
-
Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact
-
Germany invades Poland
-
Britian and France declare war
-
Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
-
FDR relected President again
-
Lend Lease Act
-
Hitler invades the Soviet Union
-
German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa
-
WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt
-
Japanese Interment Camps begin
-
Battle of Midway
-
D-Day Invasion
-
FDR is relected President for an unpresidented forth trem
-
Period: to
Battle of the Bulge
-
Yalta Conference
-
Iwo Jima
-
V-E Day
-
Bombing of Hiroshima
-
Bombing of Nagasaki
-
V-J Day
-
Seven Year occupation of Japan by the United States
-
Nuremburg War Trials