• Period: to

    1900-1955

  • Assasination of archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Period: to

    WWI

  • sinking of the Rms Lusitania

  • Ruissian communist Revolution begins

  • Food administration set up under herbert hoover

  • Passage of Selective Service Act

  • War Industries board established to regulate porduction in WWi

  • Worldwide Flu emidemic kills 30 million

  • Henry ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

  • Woodrow wilson presents fourteen points peace plan

  • Russia withdraws from WW1

  • National War Labor Board established

  • espionage and sedition acts passed by congress

  • Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

  • Armistice ends World War I

  • hitler comes to power in germany

  • signing of the treaty of wersailles establishing the peace at the end of world war I

  • Period: to

    prohibition

  • Period: to

    roaring 20's

  • Benito Mousolini appointed prime minister of Italy

  • betty white was born

  • Herbert hoover elected president

  • hirohito becomes emporor of japan

  • invention of kool aid

  • Charles lindberg makes first nonstop trans atlantic flight

  • Amelia earhart crosses the atlantic in a solo flight

  • Bank failures

  • the stockmarket crash "black tuesday"

  • Boulder Dam project begins

  • Japan conqueres manchuria

  • Japan invades northern china

  • hoover disbands bonus army

  • FDR elected president 1.

  • civillian conservation corps. beginning

  • first fireside chat

  • hitler sets up Dachua

  • congress creates the SEC

  • Period: to

    dust bowl

  • Works progress administration established

  • congress passes social secuity act

  • Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the olympics

  • Period: to

    civil war in spain

  • FDR elected president 2.

  • hindinburg disaster

  • Orson welles broadcasts the War of the Worlds

  • Kritallnacht- Hitler destroyes jewish neighborhoods

  • Hitler stalin sign nonagression pact

  • germany invades poland

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Japan, germany, and italy sign the tripartite pact

  • john lennon was born

  • FDR elected president 3.

  • Lend Lease act

  • hitler invades soviet union

  • Japan bombs pearl harbor - us enters WWII

  • national laborboard esablished by woodrow wilson

  • WWII War production board created by Rosevelt

  • japanese internment camps begin

  • battle of midway

  • invention of duct tape

  • German gerneral rommel surrenders in north africa

  • civillian conservation corps

  • d-day invasion

  • FDR elected president 4.

  • Period: to

    battle of bulge

  • Period: to

    sever year occupation of japan by uniteed states

  • Period: to

    yalta conference

  • iwo jima start

  • iwojima end

  • V-E day

  • bombing of Hrosima

  • bombing of hiroshima

  • bombing of nagasaki

  • V-J day

  • nuremburg war trials

  • elton john was born