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WWI - The Cause & Spark
Many countries built their militaries up as the arm race began. The European countries made agreements with each other called alliances. If one country was attacked, the other was obligated to defend them. Nationalism and imperialism influenced the countries to prove their dominance and power. The spark that started WWI and brought all the other forces into play was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in June 1914 by a Serbian.
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Overthrowing Tsar Nicholas
Tsar Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. He was thought of as an incompetent leader. His people protested against him in 1917 which was called the Russian Revolution. Nicholas II abdicated his power and went into exile with his family. A year later the Bolshevik soldiers executed him and his entire family.
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Trench Warfare & Treaty of Versailles
Soldiers from each side dug lines of muddy trenches to avoid enemies gun fires. A lot of people died from this. Soldiers often had machine guns. More than eight million soldiers died because of this. http://tinyurl.com/lnca58t -
Roaring Twenties
The roaring twenties were a time of prosperity in America. Many people moved in from farms to live in the cities. It was a time of happiness and celebration. Nationwide advertising allowed people across the country to buy the same products. Jazz was a popular type of music.
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The Great Depression - Hoovervilles & Stock market
In 1929 the stock market crashed. The worldwide economic downturn of the 1930s is known as the Great Depression. People stayed in the slums of Hoovervilles. America wasn’t the only country to have an economic “breakdown”. Other countries as well had problems as well. http://tinyurl.com/ljsw7lc -
America during the Great Depression
The Great Depression began with the stock market crash on Black Tuesday October 29,1929. The economic crisis led to many, many Americans being out of work and desperately searching for work to support their families. Many people lost their homes. People stood in line for hours to get a free meal from the soup kitchen.
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Roosevelt’s New Deal
Roosevelt made deals that changed America. One of the most striking benefits of the New Deal was that it restored the confidence of a deeply discouraged population. FDR's use of the media, particularly his mastery of radio communication with the American people through his "Fireside Chats," restored the spirit of the nation as he worked to lift the economy out of the Great Depression. -
WWII- Nazi Germany
The Nazis were a large, powerful army lead by Adolf Hitler during World War II. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany at that time. The German people were desperate for a leader who had an idea of how to get them out of a depression.
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The Holocaust
The Nazis tried to destroy entire groups of people, particularly Jews. They sent Jews to concentration camps. In the camps, prisoners were often worked to death and tortured.The Nazis killed about 6 million jews.
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Bombing of pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii was attacked by Japanese torpedo and bomber planes on December 7,1941 in the morning. This surprise attack lead America to declare war on Japan andenter World War I.
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Atomic Bombs - Japan
The U.S President Harry S Truman believed that invading Japan would cost lives of tens of thousands of Allied soldiers. To end the war quickly, Truman ordered the first use of a new weapon called the atomic bomb. The United States dropped bombs on Japan and over 100,000 people were killed. Japan then soon surrendered on September 2, 1945.
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North Korea
In 1950, communist North Korea invaded noncommunist South Korea. During the Korean war, the United States and others democratic countries sent troops to support South Korea, but China supported North Korea. The war ended in 1954 in a stalemate.
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The Rise of Communism & Joseph Stalin
Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. Communism was brutally unfair. Joseph Stalin ruled Soviet Union until 1953. He stopped peoples freedom. He also set up brutal prison camps and caused more than 10 million deaths.
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The Cold War- communism vs. capitalism
The Cold War (approximately 1947-1991) was a time of political and military tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Though no large scale fighting happened, both superpowers built up nuclear weapons. The countries had profound economic and political differences over communism and capitalism.
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Vietnam
During the Cold War, America sent troops to support South Vietnam and fight the spread of communism from the 1960s to 1975. Thousands of Americans lost their lives and millions of Vietnamese. North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam in 1975 and the whole country became communist.
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End of the Cold War
The Cold war ended in 1991, when communist rule collapsed in the Soviet Union. Communism ended because Eastern Europeans and Soviet citizens demanded reforms. When the communist government fell in 1991, The Soviet Union broke up into several nations.
