1865-1945 Timeline

The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris.

The model T was an affordable car built by Henry Ford. This was a domestic affair.

This amendment forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United states. This was a domestic affair.

This was a flowering of African American culture which included novelists, poets, and artists celebrating their culture and exploring questions of race in America. This was a domestic affair.

This was a radio station created by an executive of the Westinghouse company. Americans listened to music, educational lectures, religious sermons, news, weather reports, and commercials. This was a domestic affair.

Henry Bessemer developed a process for purifying iron, resulting in strong, but lightweight, steel. This was a domestic affair.

A railroad that linked the East and the West. This was a domestic affair.

Rockefellar developed a multi-billion dollar company. His methods were in some ways cruel, but very effective. He would buy out his competitors using variety of methods.

The economic depression causes a cut in wages at a steel plant. The workers went on strike, but were stopped by a group of men who used physical force. This was a domestic affair.

The struggle to return the 11 southern states to the Union , rebuild the south's ruined economy, and promote the rights of former slaves. This was a domestic affair.

This guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens. This was a domestic affair.

this forbade any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This was a domestic affair.

This is the day when the DJIA fell 12% - one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff.

For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life — breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk — were no longer simple.

The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.

The New Deal was a comprehensive series of social and economic programs enacted during the Great Depression by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration that have become part of our everyday lives today.

The Second New Deal was more controversial and more liberal than the First New Deal.

The most important program of the Second New Deal was the Social Security Act. It provided a permanent system of universal retirement pensions, unemployment insurance and welfare benefits. There were many more acts.

To counter the impact of the Court's decisions on the New Deal reforms, President Roosevelt proposed legislation that would have altered the makeup of the Supreme Court. The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, which provided for broad reform of the federal judicial system, allowed President Roosevelt to appoint an additional member to the Supreme Court for every sitting justice over the age of 70, which would have resulted in a total of six new justices at the time the bill was introduced.

The pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.

This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."

The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime which was led by Adolf Hitler.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi (101 km) to a prison camp. Only 54,000 prisoners lived to reach the camp; up to 10,000 died on the way and others escaped in the jungle.

This was a nval battle of WWII where American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands

On February 19th 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Under the terms of the Order, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps. The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese.

The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.

The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.

The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II.

The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945.

Victory in Europe Day, known as V-E Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.