WW1-Great Depression-WW2

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

Dec 1, 1913

Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

WW1

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania

Russia Communist Revolution begins

Mar 8, 1917

russian communist revolution

Passage of the Selective Service Act

May 18, 1917

War industries boards esrablished to regulate production in WW1

Jul 8, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

Aug 10, 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration

Russia withdraws for WW1

Oct 1, 1917

russia withdraws from WW1

Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

Jan 1, 1918

flu epidemic

National war labor board established by Woodrow Wilson

Jan 1, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Labor_Board

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen point

Jan 8, 1918

Armistice ends World War 1

Nov 11, 1918

bank failurres begin

Jan 1, 1920

http://econproph.com/2009/10/26/fdic-managing-the-crisis-the-fdic-and-rtc-experience/

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Jan 1, 1922

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

Dec 25, 1926

www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic

Aug 31, 1927

[/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh](http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh)

Herbert Hoover elected President

Nov 6, 1928

www.biography.com/people/herbert-hoover-9343371

congress creates the SEC

Jan 1, 1929

http://investor.gov/introduction-markets/role-sec

boulder dam project begins

Mar 6, 1929

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/building-of-hoover-dam-begins

The Stock Market Crashes "black Tuesday"

Oct 29, 1929

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

May 21, 1932

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight

hitler comes to power in germany

Jan 30, 1933

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671

first fireside chat by FDR

Mar 12, 1933

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html

hitler sets up dachau

Mar 22, 1933

[http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-dachau.htm](hhttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-dachau.htm)

FDR elected president

May 1, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

agricultural adjustment act

May 1, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act

civilian conservation corps

Jul 5, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

japan conquers manchuria

Sep 18, 1933

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm

works progress administration established

Apr 8, 1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

dust bowl

Apr 14, 1935

http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl

congress passes the social security act

Aug 14, 1935

https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

civil war in spain

Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

jesse owens wins four gold medals at olympics in germany

Aug 9, 1936

http://www.olympic.org/jesse-owens

hindenburg disaster

May 6, 1937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster

japan invades northern china

Jul 7, 1937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria

orson welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

hitler and stalin sign non aggression pact

Aug 23, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hitler-stalin-pact

germany invades poland britain and france declare war

Sep 3, 1939

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/newsid_3506000/3506335.stm

japan germany and italy sign the tripartite pact

Sep 27, 1940

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tripartite-pact-is-signed-by-germany-italy-and-japan

WW1 war production board created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1941

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_war_production.htm

lend lease act

Mar 11, 1941

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/industrialmobilization/p/lend-lease-act.htm

hitler invades the soviet union

Jun 1, 1941

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164

japan bombs pearl harbor

Dec 7, 1941

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

japanese internment camps begin

Feb 19, 1942

battle of midway

Jun 4, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway

D-day invasion

Jun 6, 1944

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

battle of the bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

iwo jima

Feb 19, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

V-E day and V-J day

May 8, 1945

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=35ee757ae6b31410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=7cb4ba2ae8b1e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

nuremburg war trials

Nov 20, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

seven year occupation of japan by united states

Period: Jan 1, 1947 to Jan 1, 1952

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan