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The Flapper
It was a new age of fashion. Women started to wear different types of clothing. It aslo brought new urban attitudes. It change the way women were seen and dressed. -
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Roaring 1920's
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Rise of Italy
Benito Mussolini established an totalitarian regime to try to restore Italy to its formal glory. He, like Hitler, was a strong speaker and a leader but also knew how to appeal to Italy's wounded national pride. Mussolini marched to Rome with his thousands of followers in black uniforms and got the name "Black Shirts." When many people sided with the Fascists, the Italian king appointed Mussolini the head of the government. He got to take over every part of Italy and make it a totalitarian state -
Crime Time
Al Capone was the head of a criminal empire in Chicago. He controlled it all do to bribes and violence. He also bootlegged whiskey from Canada and had a network of 10,000 speakeasies. His time ended in 1931 because he didn't pay tax and that was the only thing authorities could convit him of. He was release later from jail but died at the age of 48. -
Stock market crash
In early September of 1929, stock prices picked and then fell. Confidence in stocks waver and investers quickly sold their stocks and pulled out. October 29 was known as Black Tuesday because the stocks reached the bottom and the nations confidence went down as well. Price numbers went down. Investers lost about $30 billion, an amount equal to how much America spent in World War I -
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The Great Depression
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Men in the streets
During the great depression, many men were unemployed and homeless. Everyday they would go out in the streets to search or jobs. The ones that became homeless were called "hoboes". Many of them became hopeless and stoped trying. Also many of them occasionally went to homeless shelters. Many of them wandered the country. -
The Boulder Dam
In the 1930s, Herbert Hoover authorized the construction of Boulder Dam (later called Hoover Dam). It is the worlds tallest and the second largest dam in he world. The dam would be able to power cities near by. This also enabled the growth of California's massive agricultural economy. -
National Industry Recovery Act
The Public Works Administration, created in June 1933 as a part of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), provided states with the money to create jobs to construct schools and help build communities. When the act failed, President Roosevelt established the civil works administration that would create 4 million immidiate jobs for the winter of 1933-1934. -
The Adgricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricutural Adjustment Act was placed to make crops cost more by lowering production. The theory was that reduced supply would boost prices. The government paid cotton growers $200 million to plow under 10 million acers of there crops. This act got people angry do to high food cost and many went hungry. -
Hitler's Nazi Germany
Hitler has been a jobless soldier but he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The name had nothing to do with socialism. He quickly became the leader because he was a great speacker and organizer. He wrote a book called Mein Kampf explaning his strong beliefs of Nazism. With this he wanted to enforce racial "purification." He viewed Germans as blue-eyed, blond-haired "Aryans" to form a master race. In 1933, he was appointed prime minister and established the Third Reich. -
Stalin's Soviet Union
In Russia, hopes for a democracy gave way to civil war, with a result of a communist state called the Soviet union. When V.I. Lenin died, Joseph Stallin took control of the country. He focused on making a communist state. He worked from a rural into a great industrial power. Stalin killed anyone who threaten his power and killed an estimated 8-13 million people. In 1939 he to control of all of Russia and made it communist. -
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World War II
WWII its the start of a new war againts the Axis and Allies. It was the start of Hitler's Reich and Stalin's Soviet Union. Germany took most of Europe by force and a killed many Jews. -
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The Cold War
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The H-Bomb
The scientist who developed the atom bomb have been searching for an even more stronger bomb the hydrogen bomb. They said that the bomb would have the power of 1 milliontons of TNT. They argued about the destruction this bomb would bring. The United States got to explode the bomb first but a year later the Soviets exploded there own in 1953. -
After Stalin's Death
When Stalin's death happend, Russia was without a leader. Nikita Khrushchev was the one who took over. He believed the same thing that Stalin believed but he wanted to do it in a peaceful maner. He also wanted the world to be controlled by communism. -
Space race
On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched their first satellite called Sputnick. The sattellite traved around the earth at 18,000 mph, circling the globe every 96 minutes. The Americans couldn't stand aside and let the Russians so they sent there own. The Americans first try failed but on January 31, 1958, the United States launched there first satellite successfully.
