usa business after the civil war.

By teddy268

  • civil war ends

    civil war is declared ended and the us goverment was in $65 million debt which was less then it had been in 1789 when it was up to $77 million

  • assembly line is brought into the factories

    Olds Motor Vehicle Company was credited for the first mass production assembly line and but is useally overshadowed by Heny Ford who then perfected the assembly line in 1913. this helped to massively increase factory production.
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    world war 1

    brought the us out of a depression as europe bought more nad more us goods, and after the us jioned the war in 1917 unemployment dropped from 7.9 to 1.4 in this period.

  • first radio commercial broadcast

    KDKA airs the first commercial. Ths allowed companies to spread their products advertiseing all over the world and directly into the consumers home.
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    the great depression

    the great depression scared many investors and consumers into holding onto there money and getting it out of the stock market.
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    world war 2

    massively explanded us production and technology to make the most of what was avalible, and since we had just came out of the great depression this was a relitivly easy prosess.

  • worlds first television advertisment is aired

    a brand new marketing opening is opened up to business everywhere.
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    korean war

    the korean war helped to streghthen the ties between the us and south korea. This new bond brought in a new pool of imports and exports as the south koreans loved the nw western culture and movies, this also opeed a large pool or labor and business openings.
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    vietnam war

    the veitnam war put a massive strain on the us economy, due to excessive apending the dollar weakend.

  • bay of pigs

  • world trade center is opened

    finally completed in 1973 the world trade center was one of the commad center of hte world economy.

  • invasion of panama

  • first web banner ad.

    A ad banner spacewas purchased by AT&T on the website HotWired.
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    invasion of afghanistan

    This war along with the iraq war has caused the us to take out huge interest payments on foregin debt to help finances the wars.
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    invasion of iraq

    This war along with the afghanistan war has caused the us to take out huge interest payments on foregin debt to help finances the wars.