Chronology 1900-1945

SUPA US History

September 1901

President William McKinley is assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

May 1902

Anthracite Coal Strike begins in Pennsylvania.

December 1903

First successful airplane flight by the Wright brothers.

June 1905

Industrial Workers of the World (WWI) founded in Chicago.

February 1906

Book publication of The Jungle exposes unsanitary meatpacking conditions.

June 30 1906

Pure Food and Drug Act signed into law.

October 1908

Ford Motor Company releases the Model T automobile.

February 1909

NAACP founded in New York City.

March 1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire kills 146 workers in New York.

February 1913

Sixteenth Amendment (federal income tax) ratified.

May 1913

Seventeenth Amendment (direct election of senators) ratified.

December 1913

Federal Reserve Act creates the Federal Reserve System.

June 28 1914

Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.

October 1916

Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Shut down 10 days later and she is arrested.

April 1917

United States declares war on Germany and enters World War I.

May 1917

Selective Service Act creates the military draft.

June 1917

Espionage Act passed.

January 1918

Wilson announces the Fourteen Points.

November 11 1918

World War I armistice signed ending the fighting.

January 1919

Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) ratified.

November 1919

First Red Scare and Palmer Raids begin.

August 1920

Nineteenth Amendment ratified, granting women the right to vote.

May 31 - June 1, 1921

Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma.

February 1922

Washington Naval Treaty signed.

May 1924

Immigration Act severely restricts immigration.

July 1925

Scopes “Monkey” Trial in Tennessee.

Jul. 1925

Scopes Trial Ends

Aug. 1925

Ku Klux Klan marches on Washington

Dec. 1925

Alan Locke publishes the New Negro

Sep. 1925

RCA creates National Broadcasting Company

May. 1927

Charles Lindburgh lands in Paris

Oct. 1927

The Jazz Singer debuts

Jun. 1928

Al Smith, the first Catholic to be nominated for President

Oct. 1929

Stock Market Crash

1930

Unemployment rises from 3.2% to 8.7%

Jan. 1931

Major Dust Storms hit Kansas and neighboring states

Nov. 1932

FDR elected President

Mar. 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps created

Jun. 1933

Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 enacted

Dec. 1933

Prohibition ends with ratification of 21st Amendment

Jun. 1934

Securities and Exchange Commission Created

May 1935

Schecter Poultry v. US

Aug. 1935

Social Security Act passed

Mar. 1936

Hoover Dam is completed

Mar. 1936

Dorothea Lange takes the photograph Migrant Mother

Feb. 1937

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill

Jun. 1938

Fair Labor Standards Act

Feb. 1939

America Bund movement holds Nazi rally at MSG

Sep. 1940

America First Committee Formed

Sep. 1940

First peacetime military raft in the USA

Jun. 1941

Executive Order 8802 signed

Aug. 1941

Atlantic Charter

Dec. 7 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec. 8 1941

America First Committee Disbands

Feb. 1942

Executive Order 9066 signed

Aug. 1942

Manhattan Project begins

Feb. 1943

We Can Do It Rosie the Riveter poster displayed

Mar. 1943

Norman Rockwell publishes Freedom From Want

Jun. 6 1944

D-Day Invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord)

Jun. 22 1944

GI Bill signed

Jul. 1944

Battle of Saipan ends

Dec. 1944

Korematsu vs. US

Dec. 1944

Battle of the Bulge begins

Feb. 1945

Yalta Conference

Apr. 12 1945

FR dies in office and Truman becomes president

Apr. 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide

Jul. 1945

Trinity Atomic Bomb Test

Aug. 1945

US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Oct. 1945

The UN is founded