HISTORY TIMELINE

• World war 1
• also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million in battle and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war

WORLD WAR 2

• World war 2 most wide spread and deadliest war in history involving more than 30 countries and more than 50 million military and civilian deaths

DESERT STORM

• The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War
• It started on 2 August 1990 and ended on 28 February 1991.

THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE

• The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

• was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. U.S. attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine American War.

ROARING 20S

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of sustained economic prosperity and the distinctive cultural edge in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and many other major cities during the the 1920s in the United States, Canada and Europe.

PROHIBITION

• was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations however in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.It was the longest deepest and most widespread depression of the 20th century.

DUST BOWL

• The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion.The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40 but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.

HINDENBURG DISASTER

• The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6 1937 as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst New Jersey United States. Of the 97 people on board 36 passengers and 61 crewmen there were 35 fatalities 13 passengers and 22 crewmen. One worker on the ground was also killed making a total of 36 dead.

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