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WW1-Great Depression-WW2

  • Henry ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

  • Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

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    WW1

  • Russia Communist Revolution begins

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    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor- US enters WW2. WW2

  • Passage of the Selective Service Act

  • Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress

  • War industries Board established to regulate production in ww1

  • WW2 War Production Board Created by Roosevelt

  • Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

  • Russia withdraws from WW1

  • Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

  • Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

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    Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

  • Armistice ends WW1

  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WW1

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    Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sister ship of the Titanic
  • Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

  • Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

  • Herbert Hoover elected President

  • Bank falures begin

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    The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"

  • Boulder Dam Project begins

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    Dust bowl

  • Japan conquers Manchuria

  • Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

  • Hoover disbands Bonus Army

  • FDR elected presedentn1st time

  • Hitler comes to power in Germany

  • First Fireside Chat by FDR

  • HItler sets up Dachau

  • Civilian Conservation Corps

  • Agriculture adjustment act

  • Congress creates the SEC

  • Works Progress Administration established

  • Congress Passes the Social Security Act

  • Civil War in Spain

  • Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

  • FDR elected presedent 2nd time

  • Hindenburg disaster

  • Japan invades Northern China

  • Orson Welles brodcasts the WAR of the Worlds

  • Kristallnacht- Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

    night of the falling glass
  • Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Germany invades Poland, Britain and France Declare War

  • Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

  • Lend Lease Act

  • Hitler invades the Soviet Union

  • Japanese Interment Camp begin

  • National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

  • D Day invasion

  • German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

  • FDR elected presedent 3rd time

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    Battle of the Bulge

  • FDR elected presedent 4th time

  • Iwo Jima