WWI-Great Depression-WWII

Hirohito Becomes Emperor of Japan

Apr 29, 1901

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito

WWI

Jun 18, 1914

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_ww1_2.html

Assassination of the Archduke Ranz Ferdinan and his wife Sofie

Jun 28, 1914

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

Sinking of the Lusitania (Sister ship to the Titanic)

May 7, 1915

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

Fod Administraion set up under Herbert Hoover

Jan 23, 1917

http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_bio/food.htm

Russian Communist Revolution

Mar 8, 1917

https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Russian_Revolution_%281917%29.html

Espionage and Sedition Acts Passed by Congress

Apr 1, 1917

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-congress-passes-espionage-act

Passage of the Selective Service Act

May 18, 1917

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_ww1_2.html

War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI

Jul 28, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board

Woodrwo Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Jan 8, 1918

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/fourteen-points

Russia withdraws from WWI

Mar 3, 1918

https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120131035857AAHSRQW

WOrldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

Period: Jul 5, 1918 to Aug 22, 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Austria-Hungary Surrenders to the Allies

Nov 1, 1918

http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWaustriaA.htm

Armistice Ends WWI

Nov 11, 1918

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

D-Day Invasion

Dec 7, 1918

http://www.dday.org/history/d-day-the-invasion/overview

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Jun 28, 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles

Hitler Comes to Power in Germany

Sep 1, 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power

Passage of of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

Period: Mar 11, 1920 to Jan 25, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

Women's right to Vote

Aug 18, 1920

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=13&title.raw=19th+Amendment+to+the+U.S.+Constitution:+Women%27s+Right+to+Vote

First NFL

Aug 20, 1920

http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Oct 25, 1922

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop tansatlantic flight

May 21, 1927

https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+lindbergh+makes+first+nonstop+transatlanic+flight&rlz=1CATAAA_enUS624&oq=charles+lindbergh+makes+first+nonstop+transatlanic+flight+&aqs=chrome..69i57.12796j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=when+did+charles+lindbergh+makes+first+nonstop+transatlantic+flight

Amelia Earhart Flies Across Atlantic Ocean Solo

Jan 1, 1928

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart

Herbert Hoover was Elected President

Nov 6, 1928

http://www.biography.com/people/herbert-hoover-9343371

*Stock Market Crashes* "Black Tuesday"

Oct 29, 1929

http://www.investinganswers.com/financial-dictionary/stock-market/black-tuesday-917

Bank Failures Begin

Jan 1, 1930

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.html

Dust Bowl

Period: Apr 26, 1930 to Apr 26, 1935

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

Boulder Dam Project

Jan 1, 1931

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/10/11/construction-of-hoover-dam/5024/

Japan Conquers Manchuria

Sep 19, 1931

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

Jun 26, 1932

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

FDR elected into office first time

Nov 9, 1932

http://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/franklindroosevelt

First Fireside Chat by the FDR

Mar 12, 1933

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html

Civilain Conservation Corps

Mar 22, 1933

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

Agriculture Adjustment Act

May 1, 1933

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1639.html

Hitler sets up Dachau

Aug 27, 1933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

Congress creates the SEC

Nov 19, 1934

http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2012/04/17/brief-history-securities-and-exchange-commission/

Works Progress Administraion established

Apr 3, 1935

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

Congress Passes the Social Security Act

Apr 4, 1935

http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-documents/social-security-act/

Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals at the Olympics

Jan 1, 1936

http://www.olympic.org/jesse-owens

Civil War in Spain

Period: Jun 19, 1936 to Feb 26, 1939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

Franklin D. Rosevelt elected president second term

Nov 26, 1936

http://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/franklindroosevelt

Hindenburg Disaster

May 6, 1937

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

Oct 30, 1938

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%28radio_drama%29

Kristallnacht (Night of the Falling Glass)

Nov 9, 1938

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201

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 Declares War

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

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

JApan invades Northern China

Sep 26, 1940

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_French_Indochina

Japan, Germany, and Italy Signed the Tripartite Pact

Sep 27, 1940

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

Lend Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

National War Labor Board Established by Wooldrow Wilson

Jan 1, 1942

WWII War Production Board created by Roosevelt

Jan 16, 1942

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board

Japanese Internment Camps Begin

Feb 19, 1942

http://www.momomedia.com/CLPEF/history.html

Battle of Midway

Period: Jun 4, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942

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

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_the_bulge.htm

Seven Year Occupation of Japan

Jan 1, 1945

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

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf

Iwo Jima

Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

Hitler Commited Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker

V-E Day and V-J Day

May 8, 1945

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

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

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

Nuremburg War Trials

Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946

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

NBA Began

Jun 6, 1946

http://www.nba.com/heritageweek2007/newleague_071207.html

Vietnam War

Nov 1, 1955

http://www.vietnamwar50th.com/assets/1/7/Info_paper_Vietnam_War_and_US_Start_Date.pdf

Football Became A Popular Sport

Jan 1, 1958

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_football

When Color Televisions Came Out

Jan 1, 1960

http://www.earlytelevision.org/color.html

Assassnation of JFK

Nov 22, 1963

http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/November-22-1963-Death-of-the-President.aspx