-
Period: to
WWI
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/dardanelles-campaign) -
-
-
Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/herbert-hoover) -
Period: to
Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/prohibition) -
-
-
Passage of the Selective Service Act
-
Espionage act passed by Congress
-
War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI
-
Russia withdraws from WWI
-
-
National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
-
Sedition act passed by Congress
-
Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
-
-
Henry Ford opens up his assembly lines to African American workers
[essaysinhistory.com] (www.essaysinhistory.com/review/2013/195) -
Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/charles-lindbergh-dies) -
-
-
-
Herbert Hoover elected president
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/herbert-hoover) -
-
The Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday"
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes) -
Boulder Dam Project begins
-
-
FDR elected president first time
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt) -
Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight
-
Hoover disbands the Bonus Army
-
-
Agricultural Adjustment Act
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt) -
-
-
First Fireside Chat by FDR
-
-
Period: to
Dust Bowl
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl) -
Congress passes the Social Security Act
-
Works Progress Administration established
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wpa-established-by-congress) -
Jesse Owens wins four Gold Metals at Olympics in Germany
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal) -
-
FDR elected second time
-
-
-
Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation) -
Kristallnacht - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nazis-launch-kristallnacht) -
-
-
-
Hitler and Stalin sign the Non-aggression Pact
-
Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland) -
Period: to
World War II
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day) -
-
Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
-
German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rommel-in-africa) -
-
-
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearl-harbor-bombed) -
Japan invades Northern China
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-invades-hong-kong) -
WWII War Production Board created by Roosevelt
-
Japanese Internment Camps begin
[history.com] (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation) -
-
-
-
FDR elected fourth time
-
Period: to
Battle of the Bulge
-
-
G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law
[history.com] (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-signs-gi-bill) -
-
Period: to
Seven year occupation of Japan by United States
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
The Trinity Test, the first atomic bomb
[americasbesthistory.com] (americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1940.html)
