WWI- Great Depression-WWll By kmgajdosik Jun 30, 1906 Food administration set up under Hoover wikipedia.com Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers history.com Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife history.com Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WW1 Aug 4, 1914 Austria-Hungary surrenders to the allies realnewspapers.com May 7, 1916 Sinking of the Lusitania eyewitnesshistory.com Mar 8, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution Begins wikipedia.com May 18, 1917 Passage of the selective service act encylopedia.com Jul 8, 1917 War industries board established to regulate production in WW1 wikipedia.com Nov 25, 1917 Russia withdrawls from WW1 classroom.com Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his 14 points peace plan wikipedia.com Mar 2, 1918 Start of world-wide flu epidimic wikipedia.com May 16, 1918 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by congress wikipedia.com Nov 11, 1918 *Armistice ends WW1 wikipedia.com Jun 28, 1919 *Signing of the treaty of Versallies establishing peace at the end of WW1 eyewitness.com Sep 26, 1922 Federal Child Labor Legislation history.com Aug 2, 1923 President Warren Harding dies in office history.com Sep 20, 1924 Stock market begins a spectacular rise Dec 25, 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan history.com May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight wikipedia.com Nov 6, 1928 Herbert Hoover elected president wikipedia.com Oct 12, 1929 Stock market rose to 40% thestreet.com Oct 24, 1929 *The stock market crashes "Black Tuesday" history.com Oct 29, 1929 Start of the great depression history.com Oct 29, 1929 Black Tuesday wikipedia.com Sep 18, 1931 Japan conqures Manchuria wikipedia.com Oct 17, 1931 Al Capone convicted of income tax invasion wikipedia.com Jun 25, 1932 Hoover disbands bonus army wikipedia.com Jul 28, 1932 Army conflict wikipedia.com Nov 3, 1932 1st FDR elected president (first term) whitehouse.gov Mar 9, 1933 Congress passed the Emergcy banking bill wikipedia.com Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside chat by FDR careerjournalonline.org Mar 27, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau careerjournalonline.com Apr 5, 1933 Civilian conservation corps ccclegacy.org May 10, 1933 Germans open Dachau- first concentration camp wikipedia.com May 12, 1933 Agricultural adjustment act wikipeda.com May 12, 1933 Congress passed Farm Credit Act wikipedia.com Sep 30, 1933 Hitler comes to power in germany ushmm.com Oct 13, 1933 Congerss created the SEC sec.gov Dec 5, 1933 Passage of prohibitation and end of prohibitation history.com May 9, 1934 Dust Bowl wikipedia.com Jun 30, 1934 bank failures begin history.com Apr 8, 1935 Works progress administration established wikipedia.com Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the social security act ssa.gov Sep 30, 1935 Boulder Dam project begins wikipedia.com Aug 4, 1936 Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at olympics in Germany olympics.org May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster wikipedia.com Jul 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlatic in a solo flight history.com Jul 7, 1937 Japan invades Northern China wikipedia.com Jul 18, 1938 Civil War in Spain wikipedia.com Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the War of the worlds wikipedia.com Nov 9, 1938 *Kristallnacht wikipedia.com Dec 7, 1938 Start of year long recession wikipedia.com Jan 27, 1939 1st flight of a P-38 wikipedia.com Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign non agression pact history.com Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland history.com Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland history.com Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades poland history.com Sep 3, 1939 Britain and france declare war history.com Sep 27, 1939 Poland surrenders to Germany history.com Sep 27, 1939 Japan joins axis wikipdia.com Apr 19, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway history.com May 10, 1940 Churchill named British Prime Minister history.com May 26, 1940 British evacuation of dunkirk wikipedia.com Jun 14, 1940 Germans take paris history.com Jun 22, 1940 france surrenders history.com Aug 26, 1940 1st British air raid on Berlin wikipedia.com Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite pact wikipedia.com Nov 5, 1940 2nd FDR elected president (second terem) wikipedia.com Jan 10, 1941 lend lease act Apr 6, 1941 Germany invades Greece and Yougoslavia history.com May 10, 1941 Deputy fuhrer parachutes into scottland wikipedia.com Jun 22, 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union ushmm.com Sep 19, 1941 Germans occupy Kiev wikipedia.com Dec 7, 1941 *Japan bombs Pearl Harbor history.com Dec 8, 1941 us declaress war on japan history.com Jan 1, 1942 26 nations declare war on axis ushmm.org Jan 16, 1942 WW2 war production board created by roosevelt wikipedia.com Feb 19, 1942 Japanese internment camps begin history.com Apr 18, 1942 Doolittle leads air attack on japan wikipedia.com May 13, 1942 Start of national war labor board wikipedia.com Jun 5, 1942 battle of midway wikipedia.com Jun 6, 1942 US forces win battle of Midway wikipedia.com Aug 7, 1942 U.S. Marines land on guadscanal wikipedia.com Sep 8, 1943 Italy surrenders history.com Nov 1, 1943 US marines land on soloman islands wikipedia.com Nov 28, 1943 "big three" meet at Theran wikipedia.com Jun 6, 1944 *D-Day invasion history.com Jul 26, 1944 Allies break through German lines history.com Aug 10, 1944 US liberated Guam wikipedia.com Oct 14, 1944 German general rommel surrenders in north africa history.com Nov 7, 1944 3rd FDR elected president (third term) wikipedia.com Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 battle of the bulge Feb 3, 1945 US liberates Manila wikipedia.com Feb 4, 1945 *Yalta conference wikipedia.com Feb 4, 1945 "Big three" meet at Yalta wikipedia.com Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima wikipedia.com Apr 30, 1945 33,000 prisoners freed from Dachau death camp wikipedia.com May 8, 1945 V-E day and V-J day history.com Aug 6, 1945 *Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki history.com Aug 14, 1945 Japan surrenders unconditionally wikipedia.com Nov 20, 1945 Nuremberg war trials history.com May 5, 1946 Seven year occupation of Japan 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