AP Unit 8: Date Review

1919

Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI
18th Amendment passed (prohibition)

1920

19th Amendment (women's suffrage) ratified

1916

Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood
Great Migration begins

1920s

"Roaring Twenties"
Jazz Age
Harlem Renaissance

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial

1929

Stock market crash

1933

21st Amendment (ends Prohibition)

1936

Federal courts reinterpret Comstock Act to allow for physicians to provide birth control information and prescribe contraceptives

1873

Comstock Act began to outlaw obscene materials

1930s

Great Depression
Dust Bowl

1939

Grapes of Wrath published
Hitler Invades Poland to start WWII
Manhattan Project begins

1941

Lend-Lease Act
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

1942

Operation Torch
Battle of Midway

1944

D-Day
GI Bill passed

1940

Selective Training and Service Act starts first U.S. peacetime draft

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1942-1945

Japanese Internment which started with Executive Order 9066

February 1945

Yalta Conference

April 12, 1945

FDR dies and Truman becomes president

May 8, 1945

V-E Day; when Germany officially surrenders

July-August 1945

Potsdam Conference

August 6, 1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

August 9, 1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

August 15, 1945

V-J Day; when Japan officially surrenders