Timeline: WWI-GD-WWII | Timetoast

Mar 16, 1807

First car made

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
Nov 8, 1895

First x-ray machine invented

http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/xray.html
Apr 20, 1901

http://www.biography.com/people/hirohito-37173

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Apr 29, 1901

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

http://www.biography.com/people/hirohito-37173
Mar 16, 1912

First elevator up a mountain

http://theweek.com/articles/443754/9-bizarre-endearing-inventions-from-100-years-ago
Sep 12, 1913

Jesse Owens four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens
Jun 28, 1914

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz

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Jul 28, 1914

WWI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Jan 1, 1915

Henry Ford opens assembly lines to blacks

[TheHenryFord.org] (https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/african-american-workers-at-ford-motor-company)
May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Lusitania)
Jul 1, 1915

Russian Withdrawl from WWI

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Retreat_(Russian))
Mar 8, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution begins

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-revolution-begins-in-russia
May 18, 1917

passage of the selective service act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917
Jun 15, 1917

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
Jul 8, 1917

War Industies Board established

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board)
Aug 10, 1917

Food Admin. set up under hoover

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration)
Jan 1, 1918

Worldwide Flu epidemic kills 30 Million

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic)
Jan 8, 1918

Wilson delivers Fourteen Points Peace Plan

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points)
Mar 19, 1918

National War labor Board established to regulate production in WWI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_War_Labor_Board
Nov 3, 1918

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the allies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_Villa_Giusti
Nov 11, 1918

Armistice ends World War I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918
Period: Nov 18, 1918 to Dec 5, 1933

Start of prohibition end of prohibition

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States)
Jun 28, 1919

Singing of The Treaty of Versailles established the peace at the end of WWI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
Oct 1, 1922

Mussolini is appointed prime minister of Italy

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini)
May 20, 1927

Charles Lindenbergh makes first transatlantic flight

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh)
Oct 24, 1929

Black Tuesday

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929)
Jul 7, 1930

Boulder Damn Project begins

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/building-of-hoover-dam-begins
Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Jan 1, 1939

Dust Bowl

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl)
Sep 18, 1931

Japan conquers Manchuria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria
May 21, 1932

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo fight

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight
Jul 28, 1932

Hoover Disbands the Bonus Army

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army)
Nov 7, 1932

FDR elected the first time

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt)
Jan 1, 1933

Start of the Civilian Conservation Corps

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps)
Jan 30, 1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-gives-first-fireside-chat
Mar 13, 1933

Bank failures begin

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.html
Mar 13, 1933

Agricultural adjustment act

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html
Mar 22, 1933

Hitler sets up Dachu

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp#History)
Mar 20, 1934

Congress creates SEC

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Jan 1, 1935

Work Progress Administration establishhed

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration)
Aug 13, 1935

Congress passes the social security Act

https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html
Jul 17, 1936

Start of Spanish Civil War

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Nov 7, 1936

FDR Second Term

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#First_term_.281933.E2.80.9337.29)
May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
Jul 7, 1937

Japan invades northen China

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War)
Oct 28, 1938

Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007697
Oct 30, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama))
Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin Sign the non-aggression pact

[History] (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact)
Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland
Sep 1, 1939

Germany attacks Poland

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland#Aftermath)
Sep 3, 1939

Britain and France Declare War on Germany

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_French_declaration_of_war_on_Germany)
Nov 7, 1940

Japen Germany and Italy sign tripartite pact

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tripartite-pact-is-signed-by-germany-italy-and-japan
Nov 7, 1940

FDR Term 3

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#First_term_.281933.E2.80.9337.29)
Mar 11, 1941

Lend-Lease Act

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease)
Jun 22, 1941

Hitler invades the soviet union

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164
Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Dec 8, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Jan 16, 1942

WWII Production Board Created by Roosevelt

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Feb 19, 1942

Japanese Internment camps begin

http://www.momomedia.com/CLPEF/history.html
Jun 4, 1942

Start of Midway

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway)
May 13, 1943

Rommel Surrenders North Africa

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign)
Jun 6, 1944

D-day Invasion

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
Nov 7, 1944

FDR Fourth Term

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#First_term_.281933.E2.80.9337.29)
Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

Battle of the Bulge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference
Feb 19, 1945

Start of the battle of Iwo-Jima

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima#Battle_of_Iwo_Jima)
May 8, 1945

V-E Day and V-J Day

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ve-and-vj-days-1945
Aug 6, 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki)
Aug 9, 1945

Bombing of Nagasaki

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki)
Nov 20, 1945

Nuremberg Trials

[Wikepedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials)
Sep 8, 1951

Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan
Jan 11, 1954

First year the made a Kawasaki dirt bike

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/111375
Mar 16, 1978

First hammerless shot gun

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