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WWI
World War 1 began and soldiers had many problems such as trench foot, which was an awful feet disease and in extreme cases, it had to be amputated. There also was bombing, rats and loosing body parts. -
Treaty of Versailles
Germany had to accept the blame for starting the war, payed $10 billion dlls for reparations and damage done during the war. Germany was forbidden to have submarines or airforce, the most was a 6 battleship navy and just 100,000 men. Germany´s colonies were given to Britain and France. -
Roaring 20s
The Roaring Twenties is a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge in most of the major cities of the "west" for a period of sustained economic prosperity. -
Hyperinflation in Germany
Germany could not afford payments, France sends in troops. Germany workers go on strike, No production : hyperinflation, Germany stope strike - economy improves. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.[1] The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries[2] and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941. -
Ghettos
Jewish Ghettos had many bad things, they lived and die very poorly. They lived overcrowded, in poverty, and spontaniousley, they moved very often from one place to another. In these places, death was most common than anything else, they could die from so many reasons such as hunger, disease, shot, burned, beaten by any reason. They lived so scared. -
Concentration Camps
The concentration camps were so terrible for Jewish people specially. First, they were taken on a train for approximately 3 days. It was awful inside the trains, there was no space for people to sea down and not toilets/bathrooms either. Lots of people died on the journeys to the death/concentration camps. If not they were killed and burned. -
Pearl Harbour
This was an attack on the American naval base by Japanese forces on December, within 2 hours, 5 battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged and 188 aircraft destroyed. The attacks killed over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injuired. -
Wall Street Crash
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Atomic Bombs
The US used a massive atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT which killed tens of thousands of civilians. Japan was bearly recovering and 3 days later, US attacked once more, this time in Nagasaki.
