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Roaring Twenties
Period in 1920 was called the Roaring Twenties. This period was a decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of costumer good such as atomobiles and electricity. -
The Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash in 1929 led to the Great Depression. The 1930s was a decade of poverty, struggle and massive unemployment. Towards the end of the decade, WWII broke out in Europa. -
WWII
The USA had decided not to get involved in WWII. However, when Pearl Harbor, a US navy base in Hawaii, was attacked by the Japanese on desember 7, 1941, the USA entered the war on the side of Allies. After WWII, Europe was in ruins and had to be rebuilt, but the USA was intact because no battles had taken place on the American mainland. -
Became better to live in USA
This decade was a good one for the USA. It was a decade of
gtowth in all areas: economic, political, military and in popu ation. Households of the 1950s had refrigerators, television
sets, and hoovers. Cars were becoming common, and
American goods were popular all over the world. The country became one of the world’s two superpowers both economi cally and politically. However, these superpowers also started
a Cold War which lasted for decades. -
"Make love, not war"
The 19605 was a decade of both war and change. It was the
era of the Clvii Rights Movement, the Space Race, the
Kennedys, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the hippies.
The Vietnam War was a traumatic experience for Americans.
Thousands of young men and women died far from home in a
war they did not understand. The Vietnam War was the first
war that people protested against and the first war America
had ever “lost.
"Make love, not war" was a slogan from the hippie movement. -
continuation from 60s
Movements that started in the 60s continued into the 70s:
civil rights for minorities, women’s rights and the end of the
Vietnam War. Environmental issues became important.
Recession in the steel industry created problems in the indus
trialized areas of the Midwest. This area, previously known as
“the Steel Belt”, now became known as “the Rust Beit’ as
industries were shut down and the factories literally rusted. -
Decade of Ronald Reagan and conservative USA
This was the decade of Ronald Reagan and conservative USA.
The country was in a Cold War with the Soviet Union and
supported anti-communist movements around the globe. The
Berlin Wall was a symbol of the “Iron Curtain” that separated
the democratic western countries from the communist coun
tries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. However, in
1989 the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War came to
an end, leaving the USA as the world’s only superpower. -
What happend in 1990s
From 1990-1991 led USA the multinational force in the Gulf War. In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union is USA the one superpower. USA makes a terrorist attack agaist it the American Abbasid in Nairbi and Dar es Salaam In 1998.
