WWl-Great Depression-WWll

U.S. President William McKinley Assassinated

Sep 6, 1901

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/mckinleykilled.htm

The first Rose Bowl game

Jan 1, 1902

https://www.tournamentofroses.com/history/rose-bowl-game

The first ever theater devoted to films opened

Apr 2, 1902

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-nickelodeon-opens

Wright make the first successful airplain

Dec 17, 1903

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies

The first successful field tractor is invented by American Benjamin Holt

Nov 24, 1904

http://sanjoaquinhistory.org/blog/?p=1169

The city of Las Vegas, Nevada is formed

May 15, 1905

http://www.history.com/topics/las-vegas

The tradition of dropping a ball in New York's Times Square to signal the beginning of the New Year is inaugurated

Jan 1, 1908

http://www.timessquarenyc.org/events/new-years-eve/about-the-new-years-eve-ball/history-of-the-new-years-eve-ball/index.aspx

Henry Ford opens assembly lines to African American workers

Dec 1, 1913

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

Mother Day becomes a holiday

Jan 1, 1914

http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie

Jun 28, 1914

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-ferdinand-assassinated

World War l

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 29, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/lusitania

Russian Communist Revolution begins

Mar 8, 1917

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

Food Administration set under Herbert Hoover- 1917

May 4, 1917

https://www.archives.gov/fort-worth/finding-aids/rg004-food-administration.html

Passage of the Selective Service Act

May 18, 1917

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act

Espionage Act passed by Congress

Jun 15, 1917

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

War Industries Board is established to regulate production in WWl

Jul 28, 1917

http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/war-industries-board.htm

Russia withdraws from WWl

Oct 26, 1917

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml

Woodrow Wilson presents Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Jan 8, 1918

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

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

Apr 8, 1918

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802880.html

Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million people

Period: Apr 28, 1918 to Apr 29, 1919

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

Sedition Act passed by Congress

May 16, 1918

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

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies- October 30, 1918

Oct 30, 1918

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/ww1/section11/page/2/

Armistice ends WWl

Nov 11, 1918

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

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWl

Jun 28, 1919

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

Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1933

http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Jan 1, 1922

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

Boulder Dam Project begins

Jan 1, 1922

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

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan- 1926

Jan 28, 1926

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

Ping Pong was invented

Apr 24, 1927

http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-table-tennis.htm

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

Period: May 20, 1927 to May 21, 1927

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

first electronic TV was invented

Sep 7, 1927

https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm

Herbert Hoover elected president

Jan 1, 1929

http://millercenter.org/president/biography/hoover-campaigns-and-elections

Martin Luther King Jr. was born

Jan 15, 1929

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

The Stock Market crashes “Black Tuesday”

Oct 29, 1929

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

Bank failures begin

Jan 1, 1930

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

Japan conquers Manchuria

Jan 1, 1931

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

FDR elected President for first time

Jan 1, 1932

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt

Amelia Earhart crosses Atlantic in a solo flight

May 21, 1932

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

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

Jul 28, 1932

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Jan 1, 1933

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

Hitler comes to power in Germany

Jan 1, 1933

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

Hitler sets up Dachau

Jan 1, 1933

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

Civilian Conservation Corps

Mar 1, 1933

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

First Fireside Chat by FDR

Mar 12, 1933

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-broadcasts-first-fireside-chat

Congress creates the SEC

Jan 1, 1934

http://www.history.com/topics/securities-and-exchange-commission

Dust Bowl

Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Jan 1, 1937

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

Babe Ruth hits 700th carer home run

Jul 13, 1934

http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-table-tennis.htm

Works Progress Administration established

Apr 8, 1935

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_work_1.html

Congress passes the Social Security Act

Apr 19, 1935

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

FDR elected President for second time

Jan 1, 1936

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt

Civil War in Spain

Period: Jul 18, 1936 to Mar 28, 1939

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

Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

Aug 9, 1936

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal

Hindenburg disaster

May 6, 1937

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hindenburg-disaster

Japan invades Northern China

Jul 7, 1937

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

Orson Welles broadcast the WAR of the World's

Oct 30, 1938

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation

Kristallnacht ( night of falling glass ) - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

Nov 9, 1938

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007697

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 and Britain

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland

France Declares War on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany

FDR elected President for third time

Jan 1, 1940

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign 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://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

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

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII

Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Jan 1, 1945

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

WWll War Production Board created by Roosevelt

Jan 1, 1942

http://www.conservapedia.com/War_Production_Board

Japanese Internment Camps begin

Feb 19, 1942

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

Battle of Midway

Period: Jun 4, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942

http://www.molossia.org/milacademy/midway.html

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

Mar 1, 1943

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

FDR elected President for fourth time

Jan 1, 1944

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt

D-day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/d-day

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1954

http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/battle-of-the-bulge.asp

Nuremberg War Trial

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1949

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

Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1952

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction

Yalta Conference

Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945

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

Iwo Jima

Period: Feb 19, 1945 to Mar 26, 1945

http://www.iwojima.com/battle/battlec.htm

V-E Day

May 8, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

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

V-J Day

Aug 14, 1945

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

Soviet Union launches “Sputnik”

Oct 4, 1957

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-union-launches-sputnik-i

Alaska becomes a state

Jan 3, 1959

https://www.reference.com/history/did-alaska-hawaii-become-states-d5e10d774c5d525f#

Berlin Wall constructed

Aug 15, 1961

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/berlin-wall-built