1915 to 1925
Your Forties
Under Construction
If you had been born in 1875, just as this the period covered by is course began, then you would have been in your forties during this decade.
[Video Introduction of Session]
Outline
Course Decades of Biggest Change 1875 to 1945
Session 6 Topics
Topic 1 World War I
Topic 2 The Peace Treaty
Topic 3 At the Exchequer
Topic 4 Revolutions Worldwide
Topic 5 Communism
Other Sessions
One| |Two| |Three| |Four| |Five| |Six| |Seven| |Eight| |Nine| |Ten
Headlines
| YEAR | EVENTS |
|---|---|
| 1916 | North Sea: Battleships Clashed at Battle of Jutland |
| 1916 | Berlin: Germany Declares Unrestricted Sub War |
| 1916 | Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York: Blood for Transfusion Is Refrigerated |
| 1917 | Washington, D.C.: USA Declares War on Germany |
| 1917 | Cambrai, France: First Large Tank Assault |
| 1917 | London: Balfour Declaration on Palestine |
| 1917 | Russia: Communists Take Over |
| 1918 | Compiègne: Armistice Signed Between Allies and Germany Nov.11 |
| 1918 | Berlin: German Revolution; William II Abdicates |
| 1918 | Spain: World-Wide Influenza Epidemic Strikes |
| 1919 | Versailles: Peace Treaty Ends World War I |
| 1919 | North Atlantic: First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic |
| 1919 | USA: The “Black Sox” Bribery Scandal Rocks Baseball |
| 1920 | USA: 19th. Amendment Gives Women the Right to Vote |
| 1920 | Russia: End of Civil War |
| 1920 | Canton, Ohio: American Professional Football Association Formed (Future NFL) |
| 1921 | London: British Broadcasting Company Founded |
| 1921 | Germany: Period of Hyper-Inflation Heightens |
| 1921 | USA: Ku Klux Klan Enter Period of Great Popularity |
| 1922 | Rome: Mussolini’s Fascists Take Over Government |
| 1922 | Wall Street, New York, City: Stock Market Boom Takes Off |
| 1922 | White Corpuscles Discovered |
| 1923 | USA: Teapot Dome Scandal |
| 1923 | Great Britian: Conservatives Win Election |
| 1923 | Turkey: Mustapha Kemal Elected President |
| 1923 | Jordan: Independent Under Amir Abdullah |
| 1924 | Washington, D.C.: J. Edgar Hoover Appointed Director of FBI |
| 1924 | Gobi Desert: Dinosaur Bones Discovered |
| 1924 | Chamonix, France: First Winter Olympics |
| 1925 | Russia: Eisenstein Produces Movie “Battleship Potemkin” |
| 1925 | USA: Charleston Dance Popularity Grew |
| 1925 | Dayton, Tennessee: Scopes Found Guilty at Monkey Trial |
| 1925 | New York City: Crime Lord “Lucky” Luciano’s Organization Grosses over $12 million per Year |
| YEAR | EVENTS |
Concepts
More Information
From the History Moments Library
| YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1048 | Holy Roman Emperor Takes Control of the Papacy | Ferdinand Gregorovius| |Joseph Darras |
| 1054 | Orthodox, Catholics Split | Henry F. Tozer| |Joseph Deharbe |
| 1066 | Battle of Hastings | Sir Edward Creasy |
| YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR(s) |