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1920-1929
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The Still Prominent Red Scare
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The End of the First World War
World War I ended on November 11th 1918. Germany was blamed for the war in the Treaty of Versailles, plummeting their economy. Many new boundaries and countries were formed. -
The Culture of Consumption/Mass Production
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The Culture War
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The Beginning of the Great Depression
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1930-1939
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The New Deal
On July 1st, 1942 FDR proposed the New Deal during the great depression, promising jobs, public work programs, shorter work hours, pensions, unemployment insurance, farm subsidies, bank regulations, and lower tariffs. This greatly assisted the economic crisis. -
Hitler Rises to Power in Germany
Hitler was named Chancellor in 1933 and in 1934 declared himself Führer of Germany after the former president's death on August 2nd 1934. -
Japan Invades China - The Nanjing Massacre
Japan began its invasion of China on July 7th, 1937. The Nanjing Massacre took place on December 13th, 1937 and was the liquidation of the city Nanjing and the mass murder and violation of its Chinese citizens. It was six weeks long. This truly ignited the Second Sino-Japanese War which played a huge part in WWII. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht took place from November 9th - 10th 1938. It was a pogrom and a series of riots against the Jewish citizens of Germany, executed by the Nazi Sturmabteilung military forces alongside antisemtic citizens. German authorities did not intervene. It is called the Night of Broken Glass in english. -
The Start of World War II
World War II officially began on September 1st, 1939 with Hitler's invasion of Poland, violating the contract he had signed with Britain and France. They declared war on Germany two days later. -
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1940-1949
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941 an attack on the United States Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii took place. It was a surprised bombing executed by the Japanese Navy Air Service and was the catalyst in motivating the United States to join World War II. -
America Joins WWII
Days after the events of Pearl Harbor, the United States formally and officially entered World War II, assisting the Allied Powers. Although the U.S. had been giving resources to the Allies for a while now, the attack from Japan solidified their absolute involvement in the war. -
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6th and 9th, 1945 the United States detonated two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombings decimated both respective cities and killed between 129,000 - 226,000 citizens of Japan, almost all of them civilians. These bombings remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict of war. -
World War II Ends
The Second World War officially came to a close on September 2nd, 1945. Germany issued its formal surrender documents and they were signed aboard the USS Missouri. Over 3% of the world population was decimated, among them 6 million Jewish people murdered in Nazi concentration camps. -
The Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were held from November 20th, 1945 to October 1st, 1945. These were trials meant to convict the Nazi party of its war crimes held by the Allied Powers. They were sentenced for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The most notable of these trials were the Major War Criminal Trials, in which many powerful Nazi leaders were sentenced to death or convicted. -
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1950+