WWI- Great Depression- WWII By DMMaurer Oct 12, 1811 Paraguay declared its independence from Spain and Argentina The History Place Aug 10, 1874 Herbert Hoover elected President History Jul 29, 1883 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy Wikipedia Apr 20, 1889 Hitler comes to power in Germany HItler Comes to Power Oct 27, 1904 New York Subway began operating The History Place Oct 1, 1908 Henry Ford's Model T "universal car" designed for masses wen on sale for the first time The History Place Oct 5, 1908 Bulgaria proclaimed its independence from the Ottoman Empire The History Place Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford opens his assembly line to African American workers History Jun 28, 1914 **Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie History Jun 28, 1914 WWI Wikipedia May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania Eye Witnesses to History Jan 1, 1917 Passage of the Selective Service Act Wikipedia Mar 8, 1917 Russian Communist Revolution begins Wikipedia May 4, 1917 Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover Wikipedia Jul 28, 1917 War Industries Board established to regulate production in WW1 Wikipedia Jan 1, 1918 Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million The Influenza Pademic of 1918 Jan 1, 1918 National War Labor Board established to regulate production in WW1 Wikipedia Jan 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Point Peace Plan Wikipedia Mar 3, 1918 Russia wtihdraws from WWI Synonym May 16, 1918 Espionage and Sedition acts passed by congress Wikipedia Oct 25, 1918 Austria- Hungary surrenders to the Allies Wikipedia Oct 28, 1918 The Republic of Czechoslovakia was founded The History Place Nov 11, 1918 **Armistice ends World War 1 Wikipedia Jun 28, 1919 **Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WW1 Wikipedia Period: Jan 16, 1920 to Dec 5, 1933 Passage of Prohabition and end of Prohabition History Dec 25, 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan Wikipedia May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight Wikipedia Jun 18, 1928 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight Wikipedia Mar 6, 1929 Boulder Dam Project Begins History Oct 1, 1929 Congress creates the SEC Wikipedia Oct 28, 1929 **The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday" History Jan 1, 1930 Bank Failures begin History Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Northern China Boundless Sep 18, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria Wikipedia Jul 29, 1932 Hoover Disbands the Bonus Army Wikipedia Mar 4, 1933 FDR elected as president The White House Mar 12, 1933 First Fireside Chat by FDR History Mar 20, 1933 Hitler sets up Dachau About Education Apr 10, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps History May 1, 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act History Apr 8, 1935 Works progress Administration established History Apr 14, 1935 Dust Bowl History Aug 14, 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act Wikipedia Jul 17, 1936 Civil War in Spain History Aug 9, 1936 Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at Olympics in Germany Olymipc Nov 3, 1936 FDR elected President for the 2nd time The Learning Network May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster Wikipedia Oct 30, 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds Wikipedia Nov 9, 1938 **Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass) Hitler Distroys Jewish neighborhoods History Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin sign the Non aggression Pact History Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland History Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War 2 Wikipedia Sep 3, 1939 Germany invades Poland, Britain, and France Declares war History Sep 27, 1940 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact Holocaust Encyclopedia Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act History Jun 22, 1941 HItler invades the Soviet Union On this Day Dec 7, 1941 **Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WW2 History Jan 16, 1942 WW2 War Production Board Created by Roosevelt Wikipedia Feb 19, 1942 Japanese Internment Camps begin Wikipedia May 13, 1942 German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa Wikipedia Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway History Jun 6, 1944 ** D- Day Invasion History Nov 7, 1944 FDR elected President 3rd time History Nov 7, 1944 FDR gets elected for a 4th term History Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge History Feb 4, 1945 **Yalta Conference Office of the Hitorian Feb 19, 1945 Iwo Jima History Mar 29, 1945 Final wartime V2 rocket launched. AIAA May 8, 1945 V- E day Wikipedia Aug 6, 1945 ** Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki History Sep 2, 1945 V- J day History Nov 20, 1945 Nuremberg War Trials History Oct 14, 1947 Capt. Charles E. Yeager flies faster than sound for the first time in the rocket powered Bell X-1 AIAA Oct 27, 1947 Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States Wikipedia Jul 27, 1949 First flight of the prototype De Havilland Comet, the first commercial jet aircraft. AIAA Oct 19, 1960 U.S. embargo of Cuba began as the State Department prohibited shipment of all goods The History Place Oct 9, 1962 Uganda achieved independence after nearly 70 years of British rule The History Place
