World Timeline
1903 - WRIGHT BBROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT
1906 – SAN FRANSICO EARTHQUAKE
1914 - WORLD WAR I
1917 - U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR I
1918 - WORLD WAR I ENDS
1919 - THEODORE ROOSEVELT DIES
1923 - GERMAN MONEY HYPER INFLATES
- HITLER’S BEER HALL COUP ATTEMPT FAILS
1919 - TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 19TH AMENDMENT
- HITLER SENTENCED TO JAIL, begins his autobiography
MEIN KAMPF
1929 - STOCK MARKET CRASHES
- THE GREAT DEPRESSION BEGINS
1930 - HITLER’S NAZI PARTY gains majority of PARLIAMENTS
1931 - HITLER BEGINS TO TAKE POWER IN GERMANY
- WORST OF DEPRESSION, ¼ of population is unemployed
1932 - FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT ELECTED PRESIDENT
1933 – FDR INAUGURATED “100 DAYS”
- HINDENBURG ASSIGNS HITLER as CHANCELLOR
1934 - HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER DECLARES HIMSELF PRESIDENT - “ FUEHRER”
1936 - FDR RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT
- GERMANY AND ITALY SIGNS “AXIS” TREATY
-(JULY) SPANISH CIVIL
WAR
1937 - German airship HINDENBURG ERRUPTS IN FLAMES, NEW JERSEY
1939 – (APRIL) SPANISH CIVIL WAR ENDS
-
(SEPTEMBER) WORLD WAR II STARTS IN EUROPE with German Invasion of Poland. In just five weeks Poland surrenders to Germany
-THE GREAT DEPRESSION
ENDS
1940 - (May) Germany invades Belgium, Holland, and France – Churchill becomes P.M.
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(May 30) British evacuate Dunkirk, FRANCE
- (June) FRANCE SURRENDERS TO GERMANY
1941 - (June) GERMANY INVADES RUSSIA
- (DECEMBER) JAPANESE ATTACK PEARL HARBOR – U.S.
DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN
- HITLER DECLARES WAR ON U.S.
1942 - (January) – Germans begins retreat from Moscow area
- (May) British planes bombs Cologne, Germany
- (May) U.S. SURRENDERS Philippines to Japan
- (June)
Battle of Midway, Japanese Fleet retreats with heavy losses
- (August) American Marines lands on Guadalcanal beginning
“island hopping” assault against Japan
- (September) Battle of Stalingrad begins
- (November) Americans
march into North Africa
1943 - (January) FDR and Churchill meet in Casablanca, North Africa
- U.S. continues “island
hopping” offensive against Japan
- (February) Germans surrender in Stalingrad
- (July) Allies lands in
Sicily
- British bombs Hamburg, killing over 100,000
- (September) Italy surrenders
- (November) FDR,
Churchill and Stalin gathers at Teheran, Iran
1944 - (January) Soviet troops arrives in Poland – Allies land in Italy at Anzio
- (June 6)
D-Day
- (October) MacArthur’s lands in Philippines
1945 - (February) Dresden, Germany bombed
- (April) U.S. troops land on Okinawa (near Japan)
-
FDR DIES
- (May) GERMANY SURRENDERS
- (June) U.N. Charter Signed
- (August) U.S. DROPS ATOMIC BOMBS
- Russia DECLARES WAR on Japan
- Japan SURRENDERS
- (November) War Crimes
Trials begin in Germany
1946 - U.S. troops in Korea, replacing Japanese
- PHILIPPINES GAINS INDEPENDENCE FROM US
-
East Germany is occupied with Communist government
1947 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American major league baseball player
1948 - Peacetime draft
- Harry S. Truman is re-elected
- Berlin Airlift
- Communist
Parties spreads to the rest of Soviet, occupies Europe
1949 - NATO established
- U.N. headquarters sited in New York
- U.S. supported Greek, defeating
Communists in civil war
- South Africa prohibits interracial marriages
- Communist Chinese drive Nationalists
to Taiwan
- USSR develops Atomic Bomb
1950 - U.S. recognizes Vietnam
- McCarthyism
- U.S. bars trade with China
- Korean
War starts, North Invades South – UN intervenes
1951 - 22nd Amendment
- Rosenburgs FOUND GUILTY of passing on ATOMIC BOMB
SECRET TO RUSSIA
- Churchill again elected P.M. of Britain
1952 - King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes Queen
- Eisenhower and Nixon elected as President
and Vice President
1953 - U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters
- Rosenburgs EXECUTED
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
1955 - U.S. begins economic aid to South Vietnam
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Women ordained
in Presbyterian Church (women priest)
- Churchill resigns as British P.M.
- U.S. Supreme Court orders IMMEDIATE
desegregation of schools
1956 - Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected
- Anti-Communist Revolution in Hungary OPPRESSED by Soviet
troops
1957 - Gov. Faubus of Arkansas deploys National Guard troops to prevent de-segregation of Little Rock High
School
- Congress passes Civil Rights Act
1958 - First Xerox machine made
- Soviets satellite
“Sputnik”
- DDE sends U.S. Marines to Lebanon to suppress Arab nationalists.
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become states
- Castro comes to power in Cuba
- Khruschev visits
U.S.
- (March) Ho Chi Minh DECLARES A PEOPLE’S WAR too unite all Vietnamese
1960 - Lunch counter sit ins begin in South (beginning of “Civil Rights Movement”
-
Castro confiscates U.S. property in Cuba; U.S. begins embargo
- Soviets launch dogs and mice into space and bring them
back alive.
- Kennedy and Johnson elected President and Vice President
1961 - US INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM
- U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
-
U.S. supports abortive “Bay of Pigs” invasion of Cuba
- JFK institutes the Peace Corps
- Berlin
Wall constructed
- CORE attempts to desegregate interstate bus lines
- Black Muslims advocate black power and
separation of races
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Military coup (with U.S. approval) overthrows Diem in Vietnam
1963 - KENNEDY ASSASSINATED
- Oswald shot by Jack Ruby – country “stunned” Lyndon
Johnson becomes President.
- Medgar Evers – NAACP worker is killed
- France VETOES British entry into
Common Market
- U.S. Nuclear submarine with 129 aboard is lost in Atlantic Ocean
1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson re-elected
- Gulf of Tonkin inccident
1965 – RACE RIOTS in Watts are in L.A.
- 5 million color TV’s
- Malcolm
X ASSASINATED
- US. Military sends first wave of troops to Vietnam
1966 - Race riots occurs in many major cities
- African American Edward Brooke is elected U.S. Senator
from Massachusetts
1967 - More race riots
- Vietnam war continues to escalate
- Thurgood Marshall, first African
American on U.S. Supreme Court.
- First heart transplant
- Black mayors elected in Cleveland, Gary, Indiana
and Ohio
