Timeline Project: WWI-Great Depression-WWII By ecorria Jul 4, 1776 Indipendence of America Wikipedia Period: Jan 1, 1789 to Jan 1, 1812 French revolution Wikipedia Period: Jan 1, 1847 to Jan 1, 1933 Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition About Education Mar 17, 1861 Union of Italy Wikipedia Dec 18, 1878 Thomas Edison invents the light bulb Wikipedia Jan 1, 1905 Albert Einstein invents the theory of reativity Wikipedia Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African Americans workers Wikipedia Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Wikipedia Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI Wikipedia Feb 1, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins Wikipedia May 7, 1917 Sinking of the Lusitania Eye witness to history May 18, 1917 Passage of selective service act Wikipedia Jun 15, 1917 Espionage and Sedition Acts passed by congress Wikipedia Jul 28, 1917 War industries board estabilished to regulate production in WWI Wikipedia Aug 10, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover Wikipedia Oct 1, 1917 Russia withdraws from WWI BBC History Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 1, 1920 Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million Wikipedia Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan Wikipedia Apr 8, 1918 National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson Wikipedia Nov 11, 1918 Armistice ends World War I Wikipedia Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles estabilishing the peace at the end of WWI Wikipedia Jan 1, 1921 Bank failures begin Econproph Oct 31, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy Wikipedia Dec 25, 1926 Hiroito becomes emperor of Japan Wikipedia May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight Wikipedia Jan 1, 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin Wikipedia Jun 17, 1928 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic is a solo flight Wikipedia Mar 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover elected President Wikipedia Oct 24, 1929 The stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday" Wikipedia Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Jan 1, 1940 Dust Bowl Bright Hub Jan 1, 1931 Boulder Dam project begins Reclamation Jan 1, 1932 Hoover disbands the Bonus Army AuthenticHistory Feb 27, 1932 Japan conquers manchuria Wikipedia Nov 8, 1932 FDR elected president twice Wikipedia Jan 30, 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany Wikipedia Mar 9, 1933 FDR elected president once Wikipedia Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR HISTORY Mar 21, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps Wikipedia Mar 22, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau Dachau May 12, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act Wikipedia Jun 6, 1934 Congress creates SEC Wikipedia Apr 8, 1935 Work Progress administration estabilshed HISTORY Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act Wikipedia Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939 Civil War in Spain Wikipedia Aug 1, 1936 Jesse Owens wins 4 Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany Jesse Owens wins four Gold Metals at Olympics in Germany May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster Wikipedia Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the worlds Wikipedia Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht- Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods HISTORY Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact HISTORY Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare War Wikipedia Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact Wikipedia Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act Wikipedia Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor-U.S. enteres WWII HISTORY Jan 16, 1942 WWII War Production Board created by Roosevelt Wikipedia Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps begin Wikipedia Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway HISTORY May 13, 1943 German General Rommel surrenders in North Afriica Wikipedia Jun 6, 1944 D-Day invasion HISTORY Nov 7, 1944 FDR elected president three times Wikipedia Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge Wikipedia Feb 4, 1945 Yalta conference Wikipedia Feb 16, 1945 Iwo Jima Wikipedia May 8, 1945 V-E Day and J-V Day Exploring 20th century London Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki History Period: Aug 28, 1945 to Apr 28, 1952 Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States Wikipedia Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946 Nuremburg War Trials Wikipedia Apr 29, 1946 Japan invades Northern China Wikipedia Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Wikipedia
