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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
He was assassinated in the starting of world war 1. -
World war 1
World war 1 started July 28, 1914 and ended November 11, 1918 -
Germany invaded Belgium
German troops swept Belgium. -
Battle of Tannenberg
Germans stop Russian Advance -
Marne 1st Battle
Allies stop German advance on Paris. -
Gallipoli
Allied forces defeated in bid to establish a supply route to Russia. -
Ypres 2nd Battle
Germans use chemical weapons for the first time -
German u-boat response
U- Boat sank off the coast of Ireland. -
Verdun Feb-July
French hold the line in longest battle of the war -
Somme 1st battle July- Nov
Disastrous British offensive -
The Election of 1916
Democrats renominated Wilson and Republicans renominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Even Hughes. -
America Acts
Congress passed the resolution -
Raising an army
Congress passed the selective service act -
Mass Production
United states launched 95 ships -
American War Hero
Alvin York became famous. -
The collapse of Germany
Kaiser gave up the throne. -
New York Yankees
NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth -
The Prohibition Experiment
18th Amendment went into affect. -
Walt Disney
Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co -
China
China joins the League of Nations -
Socco & Vanzetti
They were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guarg in South Braintree Massachussets. -
Palmer Raids
Palmar appointed J. Edgar Hoover as his assistant. -
The Red Scare
In US a big panic began to arise after revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the Czanist regime. -
The New Urban Scene
New York Population- 5.6 Million
Chicago- 3 Million
Philadelphia- 2 Million
Another 65 cities claimed populations of 100,000 or more. -
First Radio Broadcast
President Warren Harding elected; women get their first vote -
Albert Einstein
Lectures in New York about his theory of relativity -
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July-September
Wage cuts and massive unemployment causes an increase on violence. -
First Miss America Pageant
First Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City -
Birth Control League
Margaret Sanger forms a birth control league -
Death of a president
President Harding dies -
The Klan Rises Again
KKK reaches 4.5 Million people. -
First talking movie
The first talking movie was released. -
Stock Market Crash
The Great Depression had begun. -
Discovered planet
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh -
First TV commercial
The first TV commercial was aired in Boston -
The star spangled banner
It became our national anthem. -
Empire state building
World's tallest building. -
Unemployment
33% of Amercians were unemployed -
Depression
The Dow Jones reaches it's lowest average of the depression, 41.22 points -
Prohibition
Prohibition is lifted in the US -
Hitler
Hitler becomes Germany's Fuhrer -
Iceland becomes first nation
Iceland becomes the first nation to legalize abortion -
Book published
Gone With the Wind is published -
Alliance is formed
The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance is formed -
Hindenburg destroyed
The Hindenburg was destroyed by fire over Lakehurst, NJ -
Time magazine man of year
Adolf Hitler is Time magazine's man of the year -
Minimum wage established in US
Minimum wage is established in the US to help the economy -
Nazi Germany invades
Nazi Germany invades Poland, starting World War Two -
CBS begins
CBS television begins transmitting -
German air raid
German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels -
air raid
Allied air raid on Neurenberg -
Radio
Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion -
kamikaze
US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack -
Invasion
US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines -
WWII
World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans -
Broadcasting
KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting -
Theater
"Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances -
President
Pres. Harry Truman ( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June -
Ruler
Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco -
Bomber
US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia -
Church
Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations -
Premiere
Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan -
CASTRO
Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep -
Walt Disney
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
