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The Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrio-Hungary throne was assasinated by Gavrilo Princip. -
War Is Declared on Russia and France
Germany declares war on Russia and France and Great Britian declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
Lusitania Boat Sunken
Lusitania was sunken by a U boat as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. -
Wilson is Reelected
Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President by beating Charles E Hughes in the election. -
War is Declared on Germany
The United States declares war on Germany because the sinking of Lusitania and the Zimmerman note anger Wilson. -
Russia Withdrawl From War
Russia withdrew from war after the October Revolution of 1917. -
The League of Nations Is Proposed
President Wilson proposed the League of Nations to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Announced
Germany announces this for the Atlantic as German torpedoamed submarines prepare to attack any and all ships. -
Sedition Act is Passed
The Sedition Acts were passed which included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for immigrants to vote. -
WW1 Ends
Germany had formally surrendered, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. -
Nineteeth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. Achieving this required a lengthy and difficult struggle. This victory took decades of agitation and protest. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. -
National Highway System Funded
In 1921, the Federal-Aid Road Act funded a national highway system. The plan was crafted by the head of the National Highway Commission, Thomas MacDonald and was the first coherent plan for the nation's future roads. -
King Tut's Tomb Is Discovereed In Egypt
On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the interior chambers of the tomb, finding them miraculously intact. -
Calvin Coolidge Elected President
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge was elected president. Calvin had beat John W. Davis and Robert M. La Follete. -
Scopes Trial Takes Place
John Scopes was found guilty for teaching evolution in schools. -
Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
Hirohito became emperor of Japan on December 25, 1926, following the death of his father. His reign was designated Shōwa (“Bright Peace,” or “Enlightened Harmony”). -
Charles Lindenburgh Becomes A Hero
Charles Lindenburgh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight. He did wonderful things for the Air Travel Industry. -
President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico Is Assasinated
Obregón won the 1928 Mexican presidential election, but months before assuming the presidency he was assassinated. -
Herber Hoover Is Elected President
Hoover began a seven week tour of Latin America and promised to establish policies that would make the U.S. a good neighbor. -
Roosevelt Elected For A 3rd Term
Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. -
Hitler Invades The Soviet Union
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
United States Enters World War 2
Although the war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. -
Roosevelt Creates The War Production Board
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. -
Japanese Americans Sent to Relocation Centers
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000[2] people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country -
GI Bill of Rights is Passed
On June 22, 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 was signed into law by President Roosevelt, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. -
President Roosevelt is Elected a 4th Term
Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, sought his fourth term in office; he defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey in the general election. -
US Marines take Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan surrenders aafter the atomic bombing of HIroshima and Nagasaki. -
United Nations Established
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. -
Churchill gives his "Iron Curtain" Speech
Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address of 5 March 1946, at Westminster College, used the term "iron curtain" in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. -
Harry S. Truman is elected president
Roosevelt and Truman were elected in November of 1944, and Truman took the oath of office on January 20, 1945. He served as vice president just 82 days before Roosevelt died of a massive stroke, and he was sworn in as president on April 12, 1945. -
State of Israel Created
Israel, a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land. Its most sacred sites are in Jerusalem. -
Berlin Airlift Begins
On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. -
United States joins NATO
The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
U.S. Sends Troops to Korea
90,000 communist troops of the North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea across the 38th parallel, catching the Republic of Korea's forces completely off guard and throwing them into a hasty southern retreat. -
Korean War Begins
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
U.S. Explodes First Hydrogen Bomb
It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy. The device was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design, a staged fusion bomb, and was the first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. -
Soviets launch Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first. -
Seventeen African Countries Gain Independence
Between January and December of 1960, 17 sub-Saharan African nations, including 14 former French colonies, gained independence from their former European colonists. -
John F. Kennedy is Elected President
John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the first Catholic to become president.The campaign was hard fought and bitter. -
US Launches The Bay of Pigs Incident
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
John Glenn Becomes the First American to Orbit the Earth
On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. -
US and USSR Face Off In the Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
President Kennedy is Assasinated
On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assasinated. Ofiicials have decided the man to blame is Lee Harvey Oswald. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. -
Congress Passes the Economic Oppertunity Act and Civil Rights Act
United States Public Law 88-452, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. These agencies are directly regulated by the federal government. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Lyndon B. Johnson is Elected President
In the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th United States President, with a vision to build "A Great Society" for the American people. -
US Troops Enter Vietnam
March 8, 1965 - The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam. -
Richard M. NIxon is Elected President
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
