Anne Frank in the World, 1929 - 1945 Teacher Workbook

United States Timeline

July 2, 1890	Sherman Anti-trust Law enacted to help restore the institutions of government to their rightful owners.
February 18, 1890	National Women Suffrage Association and American Women Suffrage .Association merge to form the national American Women Suffrage Association.
December 29, 1890	United States Seventh Cavalry kills 163 Mineconjou Sioux, half of them women and children.
July 6, 1894	American Railway launches strike in Pullman, Illinois.
February 16, 1898	The American Battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor.
April 21, 1898	United States declares war on Spain.
December 10, 1898	Treaty of Paris is signed ending the Spanish-American war.
August 14, 1900	United States forces help to crush the Boxer Rebellion in Peking, China.
September 6, 1901	President McKinley is shot by anarchist Leo Czolgosz.
September 14, 1901	Teddy Roosevelt is sworn in as President after McKinley dies from an infection in one of the wounds inflicted on Sept.6.
July 1903	W.E.B. DuBois publishes 'The Souls of Black Folks.'
November 6, 1903	United States recognizes the Republic of Panama.
December 17, 1903	Wright brothers plan, Flyer, lifts off the ground in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
November 9, 1904	Theodore Roosevelt is elected to his first full term.
July 1905	First Niagara Conference.
July 1909	NAACP founded.
November 12, 1912	Woodrow Wilson elected president.
July 6, 1914	Jewish man named Leo Frank lynched in Marietta, Georgia for killing a Christian girl.
May 7, 1915	The Lusitania, the word's largest passenger ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine; 128 American citizens killed.
December 1915	Georgia grants a charter to the 'new' Ku Klux Klan.
Jan 1916	Louis Brandeis appointed Associated Justice of the US Supreme Court -First Jew to sit on the Court.
April 1917	US enters World War I.
April 1917	Jeannette Rankin, Republican of Montana, becomes the first woman to be seated in the House Of Representatives.
November 1918	End of World War I.
November 1919	US race riots spread across the country (Memphis, St. Louis, etc.).
January 16, 1920	Prohibition begins.
March 1920	Senate fails to ratify the Treaty of Versailles - refuses US participation in the League of Nations.
August 26, 1920	19th Amendment is ratified, giving women the right to vote.
November 2, 1920	Warren G. Harding elected president.
March 1921	Sacco-Vanzetti case gains 'cause celebre' status. Anti-lynching Bill presented to Congress and defeated in Senate.
August 3, 1923	29th president Warren G. Harding dies at age 57. Vice President Calvin Coolidge sworn in.
September 1923	Ku Klux Klan activities cause Oklahoma to be placed under martial law.
June 1924	All native-born Americans Indians are make citizens of the US.
March 1927	Nixon vs. Herndon - Court strikes down Texas law forbidding Blacks to vote in primary elections.
May 21, 1927	Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris after flying across the Atlantic.
October 1927	First talking picture, 'The Jazz Singer.'
February 14, 1929	St. Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago.
October 29, 1929	Black Tuesday; New York Stock Exchange collapses. A world economic crisis begins.
November 8, 1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president.
October 1933	FDR appoints many Blacks to government jobs.
December 5, 1933	21st amendment is ratified repealing prohibition.
August 14, 1935	Social Security Act is passed. It provides pensions to Americans over the age of 65.
November 4, 1939	The Neutrality Act of 1939 repeals the arms embargo and authorizes 'cash and carry' exports of arms and munitions to belligerent powers.
December 15, 1939	Gone With the Wind has its premier in Atlanta, Georgia.
June 28, 1940	Alien Registration Act makes it unlawful for any person to advocated or teach the overthrow of the United States by violence or force.
November 5, 1940	FDR is reelected for a third term as president.
March 31, 1941	Vultee Aircraft hires 25 women for production jobs.
April 1941	US Supreme Court decides that Black people must be offered train accommodations equal to those offered to white people.
December 1941	Germany and Italy declare war on the US.
December 7, 1941	Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1941	United States declares war on Japan.
Jan 1942	Rationing begins in the United States.
March 1942	Internment of Japanese in desert camps of the western United States begins.
June 6, 1942	United States Navy turns the tide in the war with Japan at the Battle of Midway.
June 1943	Blacks and Mexican-Americans attacked by white servicemen in Los Angeles.
June 6, 1944	D-Day. Allied troops storm beaches at Normandy.
February 11, 1945	Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in Yalta to discuss a new world order.
April 11, 1945	United States troops liberate Buchenwald.
April 12, 1945	President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies and Vice President Harry s. Truman takes over.
April 29, 1945	United States troops liberate Dachau.
August 6, 1945	United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
August 8, 1945	United States joins the United Nations.
August 9, 1945	United states drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
March 5, 1946	Winston Churchill says that an 'iron curtain' has descended across the continent of Europe.
October 16, 1946	Nine Nazi leaders were hanged for war crimes.
April 29, 1947	Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to sign with a major league baseball team.
May 14, 1948	United States recognizes the state of Israel.
November 3, 1948	Truman reelected for a second term as president.
December 23, 1948	Seven Japanese officials are hanged for war crimes.
July 21, 1949	United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty which commits the US to a mutual defense alliance with other nations.
February 22, 1950	Senator Jo McCarthy announces he has a list of 205 people working for the State Department that are members of the communist party.
June 30, 1950	State Department announces that the US will give all necessary military aid to the Republic of Korea against attack from North Korea.
June 1950	US Supreme Court rules that segregation of Blacks and whites in railroad dining cars violates the Interstate Commerce Act.
July 1950	Ute Indians awarded compensation for loss of tribal lands in Colorado and Utah from 1891 to 1938.