Alaska History and Cultural Studies - Timeline Pre 1740

1912 - Alaska becomes a US Territory

1912 - Alaska Native Brotherhood founded

1913 - Women in Alaska granted vote

1915 - Cornerstone for AK Agricultural College & School of Mines, later UA

1917 - Mt. McKinley National Park established

1920 - Jones Act

1923 - Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks completed

1925 - Serum run to Nome

1935 - Matanuska Colony established

1936 - Indian Reorganization Act includes Alaska Native governments

1939-1945 - Military bases established, Lend-Lease activities, AK Highway completed

1942 - Japanese bomb Dutch Harbor, invade Kiska and Attu

1945 - Alaska law ends legal segregation

1948 - Venetie and Arctic Village Reservations formed

1953 - Distant Early Warning Line

1954 - Ketchikan Pulp Mill

1956 - Constitution of Alaska written and approved

1917 - US enters WWI

1919 - National prohibition

1920 - 19th Amendment grants women suffrage

1929 - Stock market crash

1937 - Golden Gate Bridge opens

1950 - Korean War Begins

1954 - Brown vs Board of Education

1912 - Titanic Sinks

1914 - WWI begins

1918 - Russian Revolution

1930-1940 - Worldwide depression

1933 - Hitler in power in Germany

1939 - Germany invades Poland WWII begins

1945 - United Nations Created

1945 - Atomic Bomb used on Japan

1946-1990 - Cold War

1948 - Israel created

1950-1953 - Korean War

1956 - Hungarian protest crushed by Soviets