-
Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers
No single reason can sufficiently explain why in a brief period between 1910 and 1920, nearly half a million Southern blacks moved from farms, villages, towns and cities to the North, starting what would ultimately be a 50-year migration of millions. -
Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdiad and his wife Sophia
The assassination of Franz-Ferdinand and Sophie set off a rapid chain of events. -
July 28th 1914
World War 1 -
Sinking of the Lusitania (Sister ship to Titanic)
A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania -
Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition
-
Russia withdraws from WW1
Czar Nicholas II abdicated and a moderate government under Alexander Kerensky was established -
Passage of the Selective Service Act
Before the act's passage, there were only 110,000 servicemen who could be deployed if America joined the war then raging in Europe. -
War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI
The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies -
War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI
-
Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
During the United States participation in World War I the U. S. Food Administration was the responsible agency for the administration of the U.S. army overseas and allies' food reserves. -
National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
The National War Labor Board (NWLB) was a United States federal agency created in two different incarnations, the first by President Woodrow Wilson from 1918–19 during World War I and the second by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1942–45 during World War II -
Period: to
Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million
The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. -
Woordrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
-
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI
-
National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
-
Espionage and Sedition acts passes by Congress
Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
Armistice ends World War 1
-
Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
-
Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight
t 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane bounced http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp -
-
The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
http://www.history.com/topics/1929-stock-market-crashhttp://www.history.com/topics/1929-stock-market-crash
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
-
Japan invades Northern China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Japan conquers Manchuria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria
Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hoover disbands the Bonus Army
-
Amelia Earhard crosses the Alantic in a solo flight
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight
Five years to the day that American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to accomplish a solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to repeat the feat, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic. -
Bank failures begin
-
Congress creates the SEC
https://www.investor.gov/introduction-markets/role-sec
When the stock market crashed in October 1929, so did public confidence in the U.S. markets. Congress held hearings to identify the problems and search for solutions. Based on its findings, Congress – in the peak year of the Depression -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
-
-
Hitler comes to power in Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power
President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections -
Civilian Conservation Corps
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#q=when+wasCivilian+Conservation+Corps&safe=active&ssui=on
Within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at providing relief for unemployed American workers. -
Civilian Convervation
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#q=when+wasCivilian+Conservation+Corps&safe=active&ssui=on
In March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at providing relief for unemployed American workers. He proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. -
First Fireside Chatby FDR
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-broadcasts-first-fireside-chat
President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the first of his radio-broadcast fireside chats. FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public. -
Works Progresss Administration estalished
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wpa-established-by-congress
Roosevelt promised Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” and outlined his New Deal–an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare. -
Congress passes the Social Security Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States
The Act was drafted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal. -
Boulder Dam Project begins
-
Period: to
Civil War in Spain
-
Jesse Owenswins four Gold Medals ar Olympics in Germany
-
-
Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the worlds
-
Germany Invades Poland
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
