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Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
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Antient Monarchies of Austria, Russia, and Germany plunged into the world war which ended up making Europe one of the bloodiest conflicts in history.
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The German advance on Paris is put on hold, which marks the failing of the Schlieffen Plan.
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The U.K. begins a naval blockade on the Germans.
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The Russians win the Battle of Sarikamis, Caucasia.
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Germany begans the Submarine warfare against merchant vessels.
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The Lusitania has been sunk by a German U-boat.
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Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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The Battle of Verdun begins.
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First use of tanks were used at the Somme.
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USA declared war on Germany.
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Peace conference was held within Paris.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans.
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies. (The official date of the end of World War One.)
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Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox, to the New York, Yankees.
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The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques, 85,000 members are recruited.
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Women win the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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Baseball's World Series is broadcasted on radio for the first time.
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A joint resolution to officially end World War I in the U.S. finally passes.
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The Teapot Dome scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming.
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Germany, burdened by reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles, suffers hyperinflation.
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Yankee Stadium, is constructed in Bronx, New York.
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Warren G. Harding dies 2 and a half years into his presidential term and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
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The Scopes Trial begins and would later convict John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school. Fined $100 for the crime.
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Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, which breaks his own homerun record of 59.
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Ford's Model T had stopped being produced at this time.
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The Jazz Player was the first movie with sounds.
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After reaching an all time high in September, the stock market crashes creating a worldwide economic crisis.
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The Federal Bureau of Narcotics was an agency of the United States merged with the bureau of drug abuse control to form the bureau of narcotics.
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The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover. It's effective rate hikes would slash world trade.
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At this time a series of dust storms ripped across the prarie lands and caused severe damage.
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The state of Nevada legalizes gambling.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time.
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The New Deal social and economic programs are passed by the United States Congress.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized under the Federal Unemployment Relief Act.
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The act was an agreements dealing with hours of work, rates of pay, and the fixing of prices.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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The National Labor Relation Act gave rights to new people.
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The Social Security Act is passed by Congress as part of the New Deal legislation and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
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The first helipcopter that was made obtainable.
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France made a forty hour workweek, which was opposite to their expectations; not working on decisions, raising crime, and unemployment went to retirement issues.
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The government had clearly lost control in Spain, and followers wanted a military dictatorship.
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Battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace.
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Reqired all males 18 years of age to sign up for the draft.
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All the allied powers were proposed to sending each other armor, weapons, and anything else that may be needed to be borrowed.
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WWII Jeeps were created, making it easier to transport small goods.
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A pivotal policy statement that was issued early in World War II. It defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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The functions of the OPA were originally to control money and rents after the outbreak of WWII.
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The Japanese launched a suprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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They went into hiding after her sister Margot recieved a notice that they would search her neighborhood.
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The very first day of this massive invasion, which brought thousands of ships, tanks, planes, and troops across the English Channel.
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This battle ended on Jan. 16, 1945, so the battle lasted about 30 days.
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The 82 day long battle ended on June 22, 1945.
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He died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly before WWII ended.
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After FDR had died, Harry S. Truman became the next US president.
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The United States made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan which basically leveled the land.
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"In his bunker while hiding from the Soviets, him and his wife both committed suicide. Hitler took a gunshot to his head and his wife drank poison. After they died some of his staff members took him and his wife and drenched them in gasoline and set them on fire. They did this many times until you couldnt reconize that that was a body. Then they buried them side by side." -Quote from another Site
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The Korean War begins its three year conflict when troops of North Korea, backed with Soviet weaponry, invade South Korea.
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They retreat south toward the 38th parallel when Chinese Communist forces open a counteroffensive in the Korean War.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death.
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President Harry S. Truman announces the development of the H-Bomb.
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At Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the first hydrogen bomb, named Mike, is exploded.
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He had been inaugurated as President.
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The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Both Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed.
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Fighting ceased in the Korean War. North Korea, South Korea, the United States, and the Republic of China all come to an agreement.
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The first color televisions go on sale. Advertising then increases due to this.
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Joseph McCarthy begins televised Senate hearings into alleged Communist influence in the United States Army.
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Jonas Salk announces this to the world.
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The Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
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Primarily a voting rights bill and it becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction.
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The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit.
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Election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy won the election by 100,000 votes.
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The Peace Corps primarily served as a way to improve third world countries socially and economically.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was a US invasion of the southern coast of Cuba hoping of overthrowing Castro and establishing a non-communist government.
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Alan Shepard was the first American to go into space, after the Soviets were there first.
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President John F. Kennedy was informed of the contruction of missiles in Cuba. In the end, Krushchev and Kennedy negociated their way out of a nuclear war and the crisis was merely a close call.
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In Gideon v. Wrainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that if a defendant could not afford an attorney one would be provided for him/her. The Miranda decision stated that if a criminal is not informed of his/her rights all evidence recieved from questioning would be inadmissible.
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President Kennedy was assasinated while at a parade in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of Kennedy but was killed a few days later.
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His Economic Oppurtunity Act served as a means to support health and education of the poor. Johnson also created Medicare and Medicaid to provide healthcare for both the poor and the elderly.
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Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act in 1964 and it ended discrimination in school, public accommodations, and the workplace.
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The number of immigrants were limited, but the nationality of people were not.
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The National Organization for Women was founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and Shirley Chrisholm and became a powerful force in the battle for gender equality.
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The Detroit Race Riot of 1967 was a citywide riot that began with police brutality and escalated to violence, theft and killings. The riot eventually ended when Lyndon B. Johnson sent in federal troops to arrest over 13000 people.
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The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. marked a tragic loss for the nation and the Civil Rights Movement.
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The election of 1968 was between Richard Nixon (republican),Hubert Humphrey (democrat) and George Wallace (American Independent). The election is extremely tight as Nixon wins by only about 1% of the popular vote.
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Aldrin, Collins, and Armstrong become the first humans to reach the moon. As the Apollo 11 wins the lunar space race for the United States. The event was televised and attracted over 500 million viewers the day of the landing.
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The seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program.
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Paul quits the beatles causing them to break up.
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Kent State shooting involving a number of deaths.
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This legislation lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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The first VCR ever made was the Sony-VO 1600. It was affordable and portable.
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Walt Disney and his brother Roy started buying 27,000 acres of land near Orlando, Florida, after Disneyland opened and became successful.
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Five men are caught burglarizing the Democratic National Committee.
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It was the final mission of the United States' Apollo lunar landing program.
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U.S. pulls out of the conflict leaving South Vietnam to defend itself. 58,282 American soldiers lost their lives, and 303,644 were wounded.
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Arabs put an embargo on oil because of United State's involvement with an attack on Israel earlier that year.
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Richard Nixon knows he had been discovered and resigns from office.
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The Worldwide Leader of Software has been founded by Bill Gates.
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SNL aired for the first time, George Carlin as the host.
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His health rapidly deteriorated due to drug misuse. On tour, in early 1977, he stood on stage for thirty minutes before starting to sing, but was too slurred to even understand. August 16,1977 Elvis was found dead in bathroom at home. His funeral was held at Graceland and approximately 80,000 people were lined up en route to Forest Hill Cemetery.
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The cell phone was invented, making it easier to contact people on the go.
