WWI-Great Depression-WWII

Hitler's and Stalin's nonaggression pact

Aug 20, 1913

http://www.history.com/news/the-secret-hitler-stalin-pact-75-years-ago

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

Dec 1, 1913

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling

Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

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

WWI

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Sinking of the Lusitana

May 7, 1915

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

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 (WIB)

Jul 28, 1917

http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_industries_board

Russia withdraws from WWI

Oct 1, 1917

http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_1_1917.htm

Russian Communist Revolution begins

Nov 6, 1917

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

Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

Jan 1, 1918

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Jan 8, 1918

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

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress

May 16, 1918

http://www.constitution.org/rf/sedition_1798.htm

Armistice ends World War I

Nov 11, 1918

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

Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

Period: Jan 29, 1919 to Dec 5, 1933

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/prohibition-ends

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

Feb 25, 1919

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

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establish peace at the end of World War I

Jun 28, 1919

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Jan 1, 1922

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

Hirohita becomes emperor of Japan

Jan 1, 1926

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

Charles Lindbergh makes his first nonstop transatlantic flight

May 20, 1927

http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp

Herbert Hoover elected President

Nov 6, 1928

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

Bank failures begin

Jan 1, 1929

http://www.history.com/topics/bank-run

The Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday"

Oct 29, 1929

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

Boulder Dam Project begins (Hoover Dam)

Jan 1, 1931

http://www.history.com/topics/hoover-dam

Dust Bowl

Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Jan 1, 1939

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

Japan invades Northern China

Sep 18, 1931

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

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

May 21, 1932

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

Congress creates the SEC

Jan 1, 1933

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/basics/role-sec

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Jan 1, 1933

http://www.ccclegacy.org/

Hitler comes to power in Germany

Jan 30, 1933

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

Hitler sets up Dachau

Mar 22, 1933

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

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

May 12, 1933

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

Works Progress Administration established

Apr 8, 1935

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wpa-established-by-congress

Congress passes the Social Security Act

Aug 14, 1935

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

Civil War in Spain

Jul 18, 1936

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spanish-civil-war-breaks-out

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

Jan 1, 1937

http://www.ushistory.org/us/48c.asp

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/this-day-in-history/the-night-of-broken-glass

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor(U.S. enters WWII)

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii

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

Lead Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

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

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

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

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

Jan 12, 1942

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-recreates-the-national-war-labor-board

WWII War Production Board created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1942

http://www.conservapedia.com/War_Production_Board

Japanese Internment Camp begins

Feb 19, 1942

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

Battle of Midway

Jun 3, 1942

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

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

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

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

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

Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States

Jan 1, 1945

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1900_occupation.htm

Nuremburg War Trails

Jan 1, 1945

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

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

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

Iwo Jima

Feb 16, 1945

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

V-E Day and V-J Day

May 8, 1945

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

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

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