The document summarizes major historical events from 1914 to 2009 in the United States and Europe across four time periods: the Great War and Jazz Age from 1914 to 1920, the Depression and World War II era from 1929 to 1945, the post-war Modern era from the 1950s to the 1980s, and recent events from 2001 to 2009. Key events included World War I, women's suffrage in the US, the stock market crash of 1929, FDR's New Deal, US entry into World War II, the end of World War II in Europe and the atomic bombings of Japan, the McCarthy hearings, the moon landing, the first woman on the Supreme Court, and Barack Obama becoming the first African American president.