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Electrical Conveniences
With electricity, practically everything was easier. It made more money than manual labor due to inventions such as the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, and sewing machine by 1928. Definitely one of the most improtant things to happen to America. -
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THE 1920's
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THE Prohibition
Because it was being blamed for crime, abuse, and work accidents, alcohol was banned from 1920-1933. Many people and businessses used this oppurutnity to smuggle it into the country and sell it for big profits. By the end of its time, The Prohibition did more harm than help and ended. -
The Dawn of Modern Advertising
Psychologists were being hired for advertising in health, beauty, and wealth. A big influence was a mouthwash advertisement. These slogans and such made people feel less if they didn't own or buy a product being sold. This is when business really got booming. -
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
With the title as the highest protective tariff in United States history, it was designed to protect farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition. It made unemployement worse becaus it prevented American currency from earning American goods. -
Social and Psychologiacl Effects
Within four years of the Great Depression, the suicide rate when up by 30%. Everyone was now desperate for food, money, and shelter. Kids and young adults threw away their whole lives by giving up the ability to go to school, raise a family, or get married. Everyone was completely consumed by this black hole that ruined so many lives. -
Children Suffering Hardships
An effect form the lack of money include poor diets from the nability to afford food. By 1933, some 3,600 schools across the nation had shut down leaving more than 300,000 students out of school. Many teen boys and some girls left home in search of work. -
Men in the Streets
The Depression took it's toll on everyone of all ages, colors, and genders. After leaving their families with no money or hope, 300,000 "hoboes" wandered the country often catching trains or sleeping in the cold streets. A sense of unmasculinity swallowed their outlooks on life. -
Pearl Harbor
With Japan growing in expansion and power, United states fought against them by cutting off trade. Japan got mad and began the attack on Pearl Harvor. Early in the morning, 180 Japanese warplanes launched and for what felt like ever, the naval bas was completely defensless against Japan. 2,403 Americans were dead in under 2 hours with 1,178 injured. -
World War I Peace Settlement Failure
The original Treaty of Versailles did not please the Germans, causing rage. The peace settlement did not work for them and its attempt to blame them for the war. Democracy failed and people now had nowhere to turn to. -
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WORLD WAR II
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Battle of Britain
In the summer of 1940, the Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast. Since they knew they'd lose in a naval war, they also attacked the skies hoping for victory by destroying Britain's Royal Air Force. The battle lasted through the summer and the fall. -
Truman Becomes President
Truman becomes president when Roosevelt died. This former Missouri senator had been picked as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944. Many Americans doubted his ability to serve as president seeing as how he was never included in politics while vice-president. -
United Nations
The representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish this new peacekeeping body. After two months of debate, on June 26th, 1945, the delegates signed the charter establishing the UN. -
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THE COLD WAR ("KOLD" CAUSE IM "KOOL")
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Policy of Containment
George F. Kennan, an American diplomat in Moscow, proposes a policy of containment. By containment he meant taking measures to prevent any extension of commubnist rule to other countries. This policy began to guide the Truman administration's foreign policy.
