WWI, WWII, Great Depression

  • The final straw

    Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
  • World War 1 Begins

    World War 1 Begins
    Austria declared war on Serbia after Germany promised to support them against Serbia.
  • Turkey entered the war on Germany's side

    Trench warfare started to dominate the western front.
  • Zepplin

    The first Zepplin raid on Britain took place
  • 1916

    Conscription introduced in Britain
  • 1917

    Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started (Feb 1st)
    USA declared war on Germany (April 6th)
    Start of third battle at Ypres (July 31st)
    Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks (dec 9th)
  • 1918 - THE END OFWW1

    The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany (March 3rd)
    Germany signed an armistice with the Allies - the official date of World War One (Nov 11th)
  • 1919 - Post WW1

    Peace conference met Paris (Jan 4th)
    The treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany. (June 28th)
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    The Great Depression begins. Stock prices fall
  • 1930

    Smooth - Hawley Act is passed. First round of U.S. bank failures.
  • 1931

    Second U.S. bank failures (biggest in American history)
    Germany banking crisis
    Britain leaves the gold standard
  • 1932

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president
  • 1933

    Executive order 6102 - President Roosevelt forbade hoarding of gold coin, bullion and certificates, effective from May 1, 1933.
  • 1935

    1935
    Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles
  • 1939

    1939
    Great Depression Ends
    WW2 begins.
    Hitler threatens a Jews in Reichstag speech.
    Nazis sign "pact of steel" with Italy.
    Nazis and soviets sign pact.
    Spanish civil war ends.
    Britain attacks Germany.
    Canada declares war on Germany.
  • 1940

    1940
    Germany attacks Western European powers.
    Nazis power expands
  • 1941

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
    Hitler declares war on the U.S.
    Hitter completely controls German army
    Nazis kill 33,771 Jews at Kiev
    Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
  • 1942

    Declaration of United Nations signed
    Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
    Mass execution of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares to avenge the Jews
  • 1944

    1944
    British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany
    Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails
  • 1945 - World War II Ends

    1945 - World War II Ends
    Adolf Hitler commits suicude
    United Nations charter is signed
    1st U.S. atomic bomb test.
    First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
    Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
    United Nstions is born.