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Ford Model T
Was first invented in 1908 and slowly got more popular until the next model came out in 1927, but until then it was the most driven vehicle in the U.S. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The Arch Duke of Austria- Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian man which in-turn led to his execution and the start of WW1. -
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World War One
A war pertaining mostly between European countries with the Allies being; U.K., France, Russia, and the U.S. The Central Powers; Germany, Austria- Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Italy (who later on switched to the Allies). -
David Lloyd George
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Woodrow Wilson
U.S. President -
Georges Clemenceau
French Prime Minister -
Russia Succeeds from the War and Becomes a Communist State
Germany sends a federal prisoner back to Russia to hopefully create a distraction and it somewhat works. -
U.S. Entry Into the War
Declared war on Germany after sinking of U.S. ships. -
Germany Surrenders from the War
Germany surrenders on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
18th Amendment
Prohibiting alcoholic liquors. -
Speakeasies
Illegal bars where citizens went to drink alcohol during prohibition. -
Bootleggers
People who smuggled alcoholic drinks into the U.S. from Canada during the prohibition. -
Red Scare
Time when U.S. citizens were scared of a spread of communism through America. -
Palmer Raids
he Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. -
Movie Houses
Movie houses were getting more and more popular with the addition to audio in the '20s -
Radio
News was starting to be played on the radio along with music and other forms of entertainment. For the first time in history everyone could listen to the same thing as everyone else at the same time. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations, 1920. The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Urban Advancement
Lot's of citizens moving from rural ways of life to the city life. -
Flappers
Women in the 1920s were becoming more free and had been able to do more on their own. They were somewhat like "showgirls." -
19th Amendment
Women's voting rights. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923 and a member of the Republican Party. -
John Scopes Trial
Scopes who was a teacher who was tried for teaching evolution of humans to his high school aged students and was later ruled invalid by the supreme court. -
Black Tuesday
Day when Wall Street crashed starting the infamous Great Depression. -
Hoovervilles
Hoovervilles were small towns/villages in the '30s made up of very poor people who lived in shanty/shack like structures or even in some cases a hole in the ground with a roof made of sheet metal. -
Peak
When a nation's economy is at it's highest point in a 6 month period. -
Trough
When an economy is at it's lowest point in a 6 month period. -
Recession
When an economy is in a downward spiral heading towards a trough or a poverty point. Contraction. -
Recovery
When an economy is heading upwards from a rough patch in time (trough). Expansion. -
Business Cycle
When an economy functionates from low to high, high to low, etc. -
Empire State Building
The empire state building began construction on May 17th 1930 and less than a year later it was opened on May 1st 1931. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
An act that raised tariff prices on nearly 20,000 products and hurt the U.S.'s economy drastically. -
Un-Employment Rate Skyrockets
At the start of the Great Depression in 1929 unemployment rate was roughly 3% and by the mid-way point it had skyrocketed up to almost above 25%. -
World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews—around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe—between 1941 and 1945. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. -
Cold War
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Was torn down in '89. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
