WWI-Great Depression-WWII

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

http://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand-100-years-ago

World War One

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I

The sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm

Russian Communist Revolution begins

Mar 8, 1917

http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution

Passage of the Selective Service Act

May 18, 1917

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act

War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI

Jul 28, 1917

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/061.html

Food Administration set up by Herbert Hoover

Aug 10, 1917

http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww1/cou/us/food/w1cus-usfa.html

Russia withdrawals from WWI

Nov 1, 1917

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml

World Wide flu epidemic kills 30 million

Jan 1, 1918

http://www.history.com/topics/1918-flu-pandemic

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Point Peace Plan

Jan 8, 1918

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1324.html

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

Apr 8, 1918

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h4303.html

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress.

May 16, 1918

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3479

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the allies

Nov 3, 1918

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index-1918.html

Armistice ends WWI

Nov 11, 1918

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends

Henry Ford opens his assembly line to African American workers

Jan 1, 1919

https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/african-american-workers-at-ford-motor-company

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI

Jun 28, 1919

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/versailles.htm

Passage of Prohibition and the end of Prohibition

Period: Oct 1, 1919 to Dec 5, 1933

http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition

Benito Mussolini appointed prime minister of Italy

Jan 1, 1922

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/benito-mussolini

Beer Hall Putsch (Hitler's attempt to overthrow the government)

Jan 1, 1923

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/the-beer-hall-putsch-of-1923/

Mein Kampf published

Jul 18, 1925

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/kampf.htm

Hirohito becomes the emperor of Japan

Dec 25, 1926

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

Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight

May 20, 1927

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lindbergh-lands-in-paris

Munich Pact signed

Sep 30, 1928

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/munich-pact-signed

Herbert Hoover elected president

Nov 6, 1928

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/herbert-hoover

Banks begin to fail

Jan 1, 1929

http://thegreatdepressioncauses.com/great-depression/banks/

Hitler is put into jail

Apr 1, 1929

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-sent-to-landsberg-jail

The stock market crashes "Black Tuesday"

Oct 29, 1929

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

Boulder Dam Project begins

Jul 7, 1930

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

Hoover disbands the bonus army

Jan 1, 1931

http://www.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-ww2-era/bonus-army.htm

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1931

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland

Japan invades northern China

Sep 18, 1931

http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/sino-japanese-war

Japan conquers Manchuria

Oct 1, 1931

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/causes-of-ww2/manchuria-1931/

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

May 21, 1932

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

FDR elected first time

Jan 1, 1933

http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381#political-beginnings

Civilian Conservation Corps

Jan 1, 1933

http://www.history.com/topics/civilian-conservation-corps

Hitler comes to power in germany

Jan 30, 1933

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

First Fireside chat by FDR

Mar 12, 1933

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

Hitler sets up Dachau

Mar 22, 1933

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/dachau

Reichstag Passes Enabling act

Mar 23, 1933

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/enabling.htm

Agricultural adjustment act

May 12, 1933

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html

Congress creates the SEC

Jan 1, 1934

http://www.history.com/topics/securities-and-exchange-commission

Dust Bowl

Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1937

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

Works Progress Administration established

May 6, 1935

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-creates-the-wpa

Congress passes the social security act

Aug 14, 1935

https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

Civil War in Spain

Jan 1, 1936

https://www.britannica.com/event/Spanish-Civil-War

Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Olympics in Germany

Jan 1, 1936

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal

FDR elected second time

Jan 1, 1937

http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381#political-beginnings

Hindenburg disaster

May 6, 1937

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hindenburg-disaster

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation

Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)-Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

Nov 9, 1938

http://www.history.com/topics/kristallnacht

Manhattan Project begins

Jan 1, 1939

http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp

Hitler and Stalin sign non-aggression pact

Aug 23, 1939

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact

Germany invades Poland Britain and France declaire war

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

Sep 27, 1939

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

Blitzkrieg Begins

Jan 1, 1940

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg

FDR serves a third term

Jan 1, 1941

http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381#political-beginnings

WWII

Period: Jan 1, 1941 to Dec 31, 1945

Lend Lease Act

Mar 1, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act

Hitler invades Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII

Dec 7, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor

WWII War Production Board created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1942

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/topic/war-production-board/

Japanese Internment Camps begin

Feb 19, 1942

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation

Battle of midway

Jun 7, 1942

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway

German General Rommel surrenders on North Africa

Jan 1, 1943

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/erwin-rommel-erwin

D-Day invasion

Jun 6, 1944

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day

Closing of the Falaise pocket

Aug 24, 1944

http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-closing-the-falaise-pocket.htm

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge

Nuremburg War trials

Jan 1, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nuremberg-trials

FDR serves a fourth and final term

Jan 1, 1945

http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381#political-beginnings

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference

Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima

First atomic bomb test

Jul 16, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-atomic-bomb-test-is-successfully-exploded

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

V-E and V-J Day ( victory in europe and japan)

Aug 14, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day

Seven Year occupation of Japan by United states

Jan 1, 1946

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction

League of nations disbanded

Apr 1, 1946

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=qfp