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Archduke Franz ferdinand and his wife were shot and killed.
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Kaiser William II promises full support to Austria
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The assassinations sparked a diplomatic crisis and what was thought would be a short.
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Germany invaded Belgium in order to attack Russia.
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Germany begins Zeppelin raids on Britain
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The British liner Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat.
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Italy declares war on Germany and Austria
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Trench warfare between The British and Germany.
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Germany begins to attack civilian ships as well as warships
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President Wilson delivers his war resolution speech
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this act required men to register with the government to be randomly selected for service
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Russia signs an armistice with Germany
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The German navy mutinated
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Austria and Hungary surrender to the allies.
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Germany signed the truce that ended the war
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The League of Nations hold its first meeting, the Treaty of Versailles is signed.
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300,000 steel workers went on strike.
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The 19th amendment is put into effect, giving women the right to vote.
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This act set up a quota for the amount of people that can enter the U.S. from a specific country.
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Congress declares peace with WW1 hostiles, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.
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The Limitation on Armaments Congress convenes
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The conference of Armaents in Washington ends
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U.S. secertary leases the Teapot Oil reserves in Wyoming
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President calvin Coolidge opposes the League of Nations, but supported the World Court
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This gave citizenship rights to Native Americans
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Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first U.S. woman governor. She was the governor of Wyoming.
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Floyd Bennet and Richard Byrd complete the first flioght to and from the North Pole
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The construction of Mt. Rushmore begins
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Amelia earheart became the first women to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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The period of post-war prosperity ended, and the stock market crashed. This started the worst depression in U.S. history.
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The first trip in a diesel aotumoblie is completed
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The first Mickey Mouse comic strip is published in the New York Mirror.
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Physicist Ernest lawerence invents the cyclotron, also know as the atom smasher.
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The Star Spangled Banner is approved by president Hoover as the national anthem.
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The National credit Corporation was created as an attempt to end the depression.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. is kidnapped and held for ransom.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president, and the FDR era began
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A series of dust storms begin in the mid west, during this time, the mid west was known as the "dust bowl"
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The 21st amendment was passed, ending prohibition.
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U.S. troops pull out of Haiti after an 18 year occupation.
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Japan renounces the Washington and London Naval Treaties.
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The Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
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The German Zeppelin Hindenburg bursts into flames over Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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The Naval Expansion Act is passed
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Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio drama is broadcasted, leading to a nationwide scare of a martian attack.
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Gernamy invades and takes control of the city of Paris.
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The first peacetime draft is approved by Congress (the picture shown is of a draft lottery)
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FDR wins against wendell Wilkie for his thrid term in office as president.
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The United States occupies Icceland hoping to stop Nazi Germany from invading it.
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The Atlantic Charter is issued by President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
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Japanese fighter planes attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, pushing the United States into World War II
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FDR puts excutive order 9066 into effect, putting 110,000 Japanese Americans in relocation camps.
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The agreement for the development of the first atomic bomb was signed be FDR and Winston Churchill.
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The first American defeat in the European theater.
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Agreement between President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin to invade Europe in June 1944, the plan was called Operation Overlord.
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Also known D-day. 155,000 Aliied troops invade the shores of France, marking the start of Operation Overlord.
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the G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law, giving vetersna rights.
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Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin hold the Yalta conference, which agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war in the Pacific
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U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima
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Germany surrenders in Reims, France
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The United Nations holds its first meeting
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The U.S. grants The Philippines independence.
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The first weeather satellite is launched by America.
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an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over soviet territory.
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The Cuban forces repulsed the americans and Cuban rebelsin the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Alan B. Shepard completed the first U.S. sub-orbital space filght.
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The Soviets begin construction on the Berlin Wall
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Lt. Col. John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit earth.
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James Meredith becomes the first black student to enter a university under the guard of Federal Marshalls
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JFK orders a blockade of the island of Cuba in fear of Soviet missles
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Over 200,000 people join in on the march on Washington, and MLK Jr. gives his famous "I have a dream speech"
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The U.S. Great Britain, and Russia meet to discuss and set limits on nuclear testing.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
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The Beatles released their hit song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in North America, starting Beatlemania in the U.S.
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The Tonkin resolution is passed giving the presidant right to take action against North Vietnam
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U.S. bombing raids againt Vietnam begin.
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black supreme court justice.
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The 26th Amendment is passed and the voting age is lowered to 18.
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Communist forces finish thier takeover of Vietnam.
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President Jimmy Carter pardons the Vietnam draft evaders.
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Mt. St. Helens a volcano in Washington erupts, killing 57 people.
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Ronald Reagan beats Jimmy Carter in the election of 1980, becoming the new president.
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John Lennon former member of the Beatles and popular solo artist, is shot and killed by a fan outside his apartment.
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President Reagan withstands an assassination attempt.
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The Vietnam War Memorial is deicated in Washington D.C.
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President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet for a summit in Geneva, it is the first time in six years that leaders of the U.S. and the soviet Union have held a meeting.
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The spaceshuttle Challenger explodes after lift off in Cape Canaveral, Fl.
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The U.S. and Soviet Union sign a treaty eliminating nuclear missiles in the 300-3400 mile range
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The U.S. puts the Hubble telescope into orbit
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Islamic terrorists hijack four U.S. planes and crash them into the world trade centers, and the Pentagon.
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Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast, it was one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history
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Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and Al-Queda leader is killed by U.S. navy seals
