Position:Home>History> Can you give me a major event that happened any time before 1950?

Pearl Harbor 1941; the sinking of the Lusitania 1915; Lindbergh's transatlantic flight 1927; the stock market crash on black tuesday 1929; these should be easy to find information on--good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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America dropping nuclear bombs on the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children!.This is Americas secret shame!.Japan was a defeated country when these bombs were dropped on innocent people!.This was done to demonstrate Americas nuclear power to the USSR!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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WW1
WW2
the Holocaust
Hitler took over
The great depression
FDR(In general)
Babe Ruth
Red sox curseWww@QuestionHome@Com

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great depression- 1920's to 30's effected usa after it hit russia!. russia's was cause of ww1Www@QuestionHome@Com

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the great depression, womans rights movement, prohabition, etcWww@QuestionHome@Com

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The end of the Civil War April 9 1865!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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ww1
ww2
end of suffrage
war of 1812
etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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1898 - TR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF Navy

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR; for timeline see: http://www!.spanam!.simplenet!.com/

1899 - SOUTHERN STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS

1900 - THEODORE ROOSEVELT ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT

1901 - MCKINLEY ASSONATED – THEODORE ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENT

- CARNEGIE SELLS CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY FOR $225 MIL

1903 - WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT

1906 - SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE

1908 - FORD INTRODUCES MODEL T

- TAFT ELECTED PRESIDENT

- TR GOES ON SAFARI AND EUROPE TOUR, VISITS KAISER

- NAACP FOUNDED

1912 - TR RUNS AS PROGRESSIVE… WILSON WINS

- MORE THAN 1000 AFRICAN AMERICANS LYNCHED SINCE 1901

1914 - WORLD WAR I BEGINS IN EUROPE

1917 - "Zimmerman Telegram" - http://www!.nara!.gov/

- U!.S!. ENTERS WORLD WAR I

1918 - WORLD WAR I ENDS

1919 - TR DIES – CARNEGIE DIES

1923 - GERMAN MONEY HYPER INFLATES

- HITLER’S BEER HALL COUP ATTEMPT FAILS

1919 - TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 19TH AMENDMENT

- HITLER SENTENCED TO JAIL, BEGINS MEIN KAMPF!.

1925 - HINDENBURG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GERMANY

1929 - STOCK MARKET CRASHES, DEPRESSION BEGINS

1930 - HITLER’S NAZI PARTY GAINS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT

1931 - GEORGE’S DAD GRADUATES FROM COLLEGE / HITLER BEGINS TO TAKE POWER IN GERMANY

- WORST OF DEPRESSION
ALMOST 25% UNEMPLOYED

1932 - FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT ELECTED PRESIDENT

- COMMUNIST PARTY MAKES GAINS IN GERMANY

1933 - FDR INAUGURATED “100 DAYS”

- HINDENBURG APPOINTS HITLER CHANCELLOR

1934 - HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER APPOINTS HIMSELF PRESIDENT - “ FUEHRER”

1936 - FDR RE-ELECTED

- GERMANY AND ITALY SIGN “AXIS” TREATY

1937 - German airship HINDENBURG BURNS IN NEW JERSEY

1938 - “MUNICH” – British P!.M!. Chamberlain agrees that Hitler can have Czechoslovakia!.

1939 - (SEPTEMBER) WORLD WAR II STARTS IN EUROPE with German Invasion of Poland!. In just five weeks Poland surrenders to Germany!. See time line: http://www!.open!.org/~talmadge/holocaust/!.!.!.

1940 - (May) Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France – Churchill becomes P!.M!.

- (May 30) British evacuate Continent at Dunkirk

- (June) France Surrenders

1941 - (June) Germany invades Russia

- (DECEMBER) JAPANESE ATTACK PEARL HARBOR – U!.S!. DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN

- HITLER DECLARES WAR ON U!.S!.

1942 - (January) – Germans begin retreat from Moscow area

- (May) 1000 British planes bomb Cologne, Germany

- (May) U!.S!. surrenders Philippines to Japan

- (June) Battle of Midway, Japanese Fleet turned back with heavy losses!.

- (August) American Marines land on Guadalcanal beginning “island hopping” assault against Japan!.

- (September) Battle of Stalingrad begins

- (November) Americans invade North Africa

1943 - (January) Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca, North Africa

- U!.S!. continues island offensive against Japan

- (February) Germans surrender in Stalingrad, huge loss!.

- (July) Allies land in Sicily

- British bomb Hamburg, creating firestorm, killing over 100,000

- (September) Italy surrenders

- (November) FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Teheran, Iran

1944 - (January) Soviet troops now in Poland – Allies land in Italy at Anzio

- (June 6) Allies invade Europe – D-Day

- (October) MacArthur’s troops land in Philippines!.

1945 - (February) Dresden bombed

- (March) Japanese still fighting in Philippines!.

- (April) U!.S!. troops land on Okinawa (near Japan)

- FDR Dies

- (May) Germany Surrenders

- (June) U!.N!. Charter Signed

- (August) Atomic bombs dropped – Russia declares war on Japan

- Japan surrenders

- (November) War Crimes Trials begin in Germany!.

1946 - U!.S!. troops in Korea, replacing Japanese

- U!.S!. grants independence to Philippines (leases bases to U!.S!.)

- Communist controlled government in East Germany

1947 - Britain Nationalizes Coal, radio, electrical

- Marshall plan to aid Germany and Europe (originally offered to all of Europe, including USSR occupied!.

- Loyalty oaths for Govt!. Workers

- Jackie Robinson becomes first African American major league baseball player

1948 - Peacetime draft

- Truman defeats Dewey and is re-elected!.

- Berlin Airlift

- Communist Parties gain control of rest of Soviet occupied Europe

1949 - NATO established

- U!.N!. headquarters sited in New York!.

- U!.S!. supported Greek government defeats Communists in civil war!.

- South Africa prohibits interracial marriages

- Communist Chinese drive Nationalists to Taiwan, securing control of Mainland China!.

- USSR develops Atomic Bomb

1950 - U!.S!. recognizes Vietnam

- McCarthy Hearings begin

- Communists in U!.S!. must register

- U!.S!. bars trade with Communist China

- Korean war starts, North Invades South – UN intervenes (USSR absent from Security Council)

1951 - 22nd Amendment, prohibiting more than two presidential terms

- Rosenburgs found guilty, sentenced to death (executed in 1953)

- Truman relieves MacArthur of command in Korea – DM returns in triumph, talk of impeachment… “Old soldiers never die… they just fade away”… and he did!.

- Churchill again elected P!.M!. of Britain

1952 - King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes Queen

- Eisenhower and Nixon elected President and Vice PresidentWww@QuestionHome@Com

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