Mindomo Assignment #1 - Units 1-3 CHC2D

Started June 28, 1914

Because of the assassination of the Austrian archduke,
Franz Ferdinand and his wife

March 9, 1916

Germany declares war on Portugal

Ended June 28, 1919

Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France,
Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles

Started January 10, 1920

League of Nations was created at the end of WWI as an organization of countries established to keep peace

August 18, 1920

19th Amendment allows women to vote

January 9, 1924

Ford motor company is created

Ended October 24 1929

The stock market crashed

Started October 24, 1929

As a result pf various economic imbalances and structural failings

October 28, 1929

The market fell again

Ended October 29, 1929

Black Tuesday investors sold over 16.4 million shares and the following day the stock market closed

Started February 4, 1945

Because western democracies had always been hostile to the idea of a communist state

October 3, 1990

East and West Germany were reunited as one country

Ended December 26, 1991

The Soviet Empire had fallen and the United States became the world's only remaining "superpower"

Started September 1, 1939

Because Germany invaded Poland

April 6, 1941

Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazi's

Ended May 8, 1945

Because Germany surrenders

Started January 1, 1930

Because of severe dust storms which caused major agricultural damage to prairie lands but in some cases drought and decades of extensive farming without crop rotation

April 14, 1935

Black Sunday the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl occurred, causing the greatest damage yet

Ended fall of 1939

Rain returned in significant amounts signalling the end go the Dust Bowl