The Era of the World Wars

1917-1918: World War IWorld War I Chronology

• 1917: US enters WWI
• 1918: Wilson's Fourteen Points.
  • Sedition Act.
• 1919: The Palmer Raids.
  • Senate rejects Versailles Treaty.
  • Eighteenth Amendment is ratified prohibiting alcoholic beverages.
• 1920: Nineteenth Amendment grants Women's Suffrage.
  • First Commercial radio broadcast.
• 1921: Margaret Sanger founds the National Birth Control League.
• 1925: The Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
• 1927: Charles Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris solo.
• 1929: The Great Depression begins.
• 1930: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
• 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President.
  • The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is created.
• 1933: New Deal begins.
• 1938: End of New Deal Reforms.

  World War IIWorld War II Chronology

  • 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII.
  • 1945: Germany and Japan surrender ending World War II.
    
    
• 1947: The Marshall Plan.

Resources

Primary Sources

• Wilson: 14 Points

Secondary Sources