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Heir to the austrian throne, he visited the bosnian capital sarajevo. He was driving through the city when Gavrillo Princip shot him and his wife sophie.
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Austria-Hungary declared what was expected to be a short war against serbia.
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Germany invaded belgium, which followed a strategy known as the schlieffen plan. The plan called for a holding action against russia, which was combined with a drive through belgium to paris.
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Germany declared war on russia's ally france and after germany invaded belgium britian declared war on germany and austria-Hungary.
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One of the worst disasters occurred. A U-boat sank the british liner Luistania.
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A U-Boat sank another british liner called the arabic, drowining two americans. The U.S protested and germany agreed not to sink any moe passenger ships.
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Two parallel systems of deep rat-infested trenches crossed france from the belgian coast to the swiss alps. German soldiers occupied one set of the trenches and allied soldiers occupied the other.
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Opened the first birth-control clinic in the united states.
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During the first battle of somme the british suffered 60,000 casualties just on the first day. The final total of casualties was about 1.2 million, and only seven miles of ground changed hands.
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Germany torpedoed an unarmed french passenger steamer, the sussex. 80 passengers including americans were killed or injured.
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Democrats renominated wilson, and the republicans nominated supreme court justice Charles Evans Hughes.
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In a speech before the senate president wilson called for a "Peace without victory....a peace between equals" in which neither of the sides would impose harsh terms on the other.
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Senators, representatives, ambassadors, members of the supreme court, and other guests crowded in the captial building to hear president wilson deliever his war resolution.
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First women elected to congress; stood up and declared "I want to stand by my country but i can not vote for war. I vote no.
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The first World War ends.
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Congress approves the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
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The eighteenth amendment to the constitution, banning the manufacture, sale and transportation of alchol, took effect in january.
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only 19 percent of americans supported prohibition. The rest believed that prohibition caused worse effects than the initial problem.
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An artistic movement founded in harlem which celebrated african american culture.
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Station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania initates regular radio broadcasts the first station to do this.
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Secretary of the interior albert fall, a friend of hardinas, was convicted of taking bribes from oil executives.
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Louis armstrong plays for king olivers creole jazz band in chicago.
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The first talkie film was shown in theaters.
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Calvin Coolidge is elected president.
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Tennessee passed the nations first law that made it a crime to teach evolution.
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The trial opened and almost overnight became a national sensation.
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Flappers compete in a charleston dance competition.
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Makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
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Approximately 50 million americans sat listening to their radios as graham mcnamee would announce the boxing mathces.
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In the St Valentines day massacre six gangsters from the bugs moran mob and another man were killed in a chicago garage.
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The stock market crashed in october 1929 was one of the most dramatic events signalling the depression. Many people who invested in the stock market lost everything in the crash.
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This act harnessed water power to generate electricity and to help prevent disatrous floods in the tennessee valley.
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Congress passed the hawley-smoot tariff, which established the highest protective tariff in the united states history.
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A storm that mostly hit kansas, oklahoma, texas, new mexico, and colorado. The dust would travel hundreds of miles.
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8.02 million americans were unemployed.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president
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400,000 farms were lost through foreclosure. Many famers turned to tenant farming and barely scraped out a living.
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Hoover signed this act which lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmerst o refinance their farm loans.
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The bonus army arrives in Washington, D.C
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The gross national product was cut in half from 104 billion to 59 billion. 90,000 buisnesses went bankrupt.
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More than 13 million americans are unemployed.
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Congress pass this act to regulate the stock market
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This act provided substantial benefits to millions of americans. Including the old-age, unemployment, and children with disabilities.
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This was expelled from AFL and changed its name to the congress of industrial organization.
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Marian Anderson sang from the steps of the lincoln memorial.
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The wizard of oz was released in theathers and was the first color movie.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of denmark and norway in order to protect those countries freedom and independence.
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William shirer and the rest of the world watched, hitler hand the french officers his terms of surrender.
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Hideki tojo, the force behind japanese strategy becomes japans prime minister in 1941.
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Hitler broke the agreement he had made with joseph stalin not to go to war and invaded the soviet union.
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Roosevelt received a decoded message that instructed japans peace envoy to reject all american peace proposals. Roosevelt knew that this ment war.
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Japanese attack and bomb pearl harbor
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Congress gave women this law. This law gave the WAAC and official status and salary but few of the benefits granted to male soldiers.
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The german commander surrenderd and two days later his starving troops also surrendered.
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The first day of the invasion of operation overlord.
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Eight german tank divisions broke through weak american defenses along an 80-mile front.
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A meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the united kingdom, and the soviet union for the purpose of discussing europes post war reorganization.
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30,000 U.S Marines land on iwo jima. Many deaths had resulted in this.
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The allies celebrated on this day. It ment victory in europe day. It also ment that the war in europe was finally over.
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The enola gay dropped the little boy atomic bomb on hiroshima.
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The atomic bomb was dropped on nagasaki as a final attempt for the japanese to surrender.
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alger hiss was convicted for suspected communism while working for the government.
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north korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on south korea.
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Philip day spotted a column of eight enemy tanks moving toward his company.
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The united nations forcces retreat south toward the 38th parallel when the chinese communists forces open a counteroffensive in the korean war.
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These two americans were found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to be executed.
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The united states, australia and new zealand sign a mutual security pact
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joseph stalin dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 73
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The U.S sets off its first hydrogen bomb on the south pacific island of eniwetok.
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Eisenhower defeats democrat Adlai E Stevenson and is elected president.
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Mao Zedong became the chairman of china
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A war over the suez canal that began aganist france and great britian.
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The soviets launch sputnik the first manmade satellite which causes fear in the US.
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The U.S launches its first satellite, Explorer 1, marking U.S entry into space race with the russians.
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The first major world's fair since the end of World War II opens in Brussels, Belgium and evokes a Cold War debate between the pavilions of the Soviet Union and the United States
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NASA selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, first astronauts of the United States.
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70 million TV viewers watched nixon and kennedy debating issues.
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President Eisenhower had cut off diplomatic relations with cuba because of a revolutionary leader named fidel castro.
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John became the 35th president of the United States and he delivers his inaugural adress.
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1,300 to 1,500 cuban exiles supported by the U.S military landed on the islands southern coast at Bahia de Cochinos, the bay of pigs.
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Alan climed into freedom 7, a tiny capsule on top of a huge rocket booster. The capsule left earth's atmosphere in a ball of fire and returned the same way only lasting fifteen mintues.
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Rachel carson published her book silent spring.
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The hot line was only used for emergencies and it would help reduce the risk of war occurring by accident or miscalculation.
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The warren commission investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own.
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President John F. Kennedy was assainated in his car by lee harvey oswald.
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The civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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Congress enacted the Economic Opportunity Act approving 1 billion for youth programs, antipoverty measures, small-business loans, and job training.
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All suspects must be read their rights before questioning.
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The U.S launches its first satellite, explorer 1, marking U.S entry into the space race with the russians.
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This act opened the door for many non-european immigrants to settle in the united states by ending quotas based on nationality.
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Pope John Paul II, Korol Wojtyla of Poland, is elected Pope at Vatican City.
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Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon which was a very big step for the world.
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Taos of new mexico regain possession of Blue Lake as well as surrounding forestland.
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Congress repealed the tonkin gulf resolution, which had given the president near independence on conducting policy in vietnam.
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North vietnamese tanks rolled into saigon and captured the city, and soon after south vietnam surrendered to north vietnam
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Three months after visiting Beijing president nixon heads to Mosocw. He was the first U.S president ever to visit the Soviet Union.
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The Watergate crisis begins when four men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C.
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The united states signed an agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in vietnam.
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Four vietnam peac pacts were signed in Paris, France. It was know as the "Paris Peace Accords".
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The last U.S combat troops left for home and for america, the vietnam war had ended.
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Congress passed the war powers act, which stipulated that a president must inform congress within 48 hours of sending forces into a hostile area without declaration of war.h
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Congress passed these laws whcih gave tribes greater control over their own affairs and over their childrens education.
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Twenty-nine people attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia are killed by a mysterious ailment
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During fireside chat, president Carter urged his fellow americans to cut their consumption of oil and gas.
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Fifteen nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a nuclear-proliferation pact, slowing the spread of nuclear weapons around the world.
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The american pioneer eleven passes the planet saturn, becoming the first space craft to visit the planet.
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The chrysler bailout is approved by the federal government and a 1.5 billion loan is floated to help assist the third largest car marker in the united states.
