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born into a wealthy new york family.
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was an only child
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He was a spoiled child.
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frostbite
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a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
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are between armies
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the assassination Franz Ferdinand and this sparked WWI
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A feeling of pride
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was educated in harverd
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married Elenor Roosevelt
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was a new york senate
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plains, zeppelins etc
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loss limbs
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Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
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was a communist party
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france Germany Russia
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World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).
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The Central Powers were a group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I. The members included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and their territories.
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There were two sides in the war. The Triple Ententes (also known as The Allies) were Britain, France, Ireland, and Russia. The Central Powers were Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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World War 1 began on July 28, 1914. The conflict lasted four years, three months and 14 days, ending on November 11, 1918
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russia was loseing battles
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the industries skyrocketed in the 1920s
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the 1920s was the year of independence for woman.
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With all the optimism and the booming economy, people were buying lots of products on credit. The overall debt of the country grew rapidly. At the same time, people were speculating on the stock market. Stock values soared and people thought they would go up forever. However, on October 29,1929, the stock market crashed. This day is known as Black Tuesday and it signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
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red scare was a scare of reds
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the 18th amendment
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19th amendment
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ran for vice president and lost to Harding/Coolidge
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Jazz music was the most popular music in the 1920s
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The Roaring Twenties signaled a major shift in the culture of the United States. With the invention of the radio, movies, and mass-produced consumer goods, the 1920s became a time of mass culture. People throughout the United States listened to the same radio shows, watched the same movies, and bought the same products. People from one side of the country to the other were doing many of the same things.
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became paralyzed
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served as governor
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Around 11,000 banks failed during the Great Depression, leaving many with no savings.
In 1929, unemployment was around 3%. In 1933, it was 25%, with 1 out of every 4 people out of work. -
The Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market in October 1929. Historians and economists give various causes for the Great Depression including drought, overproduction of goods, bank failures, stock speculation, and consumer debt.
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The stock market lost almost 90% of its value between 1929 and 1933.
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defeats Herbert Hoover for the presidency
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Herbert Hoover was President of the United States when the Great Depression began. Many people blamed Hoover for the Great Depression. They even named the shantytowns where homeless people lived "Hoovervilles" after him. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president. He promised the people of America a "New Deal."
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The New Deal was a series of laws, programs, and government agencies enacted to help the country deal with the Great Depression. These laws placed regulations on the stock market, banks, and businesses. They helped put people to work and tried to help house and feed the poor. Many of these laws are still in place today like the Social Security Act
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World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. It cost more money, damaged more property, killed more people, and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history.
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The Great Depression ended with the start of World War II. The wartime economy put many people back to work and filled factories to capacity.
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The Cold War reached its peak in 1948–53. In this period the Soviets unsuccessfully blockaded the Western-held sectors of West Berlin (1948–49); the United States and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a unified military command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe (1949); the Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead (1949), thus ending the American monopoly on the atomic bomb; the Chinese communists came to power in mainland China (1949)
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Following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945 near the close of World War II, the uneasy wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other began to unravel. By 1948 the Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army.
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The Great Depression left a lasting legacy in the United States. The New Deal laws significantly increased the role of the government in people's everyday lives. Also, public works built up the infrastructure of the country with the construction of roads, schools, bridges, parks, and airports.
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It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust. Approximately 1.2 million of them were Jewish and tens of thousands were Gypsies.
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The Battle of the Bulge is the largest and deadliest battle for U.S. troops to date, with more than 80,000 American deaths
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Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published in 1945
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In World War II the chief Allied powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June ), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China
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The longest war in U.S. history involved not weapons and warfare but words and ideas. Beginning in 1945, this war was a struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. wanted to contain the spread of communist control. The Cold War ended in 1990 with the collapse of communism in the USSR.
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Hitler designed the Nazi flag. Red stood for the social idea of Nazism, white for nationalism, and the black swastika for the struggle of the Aryan man
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Even before WW2 had started Hitler predicted in his book "Mein Kampf" a European War that would exterminate all of the Jews from Germany.
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The Enola Gay became well known for dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, but few people know the name of the B-29 that bombed Nagasaki. It was Bock’s Car, named after the plane’s usual commander, Frederick Bock.
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Dr. Josef Mengele (the “Angel of Death”) used about 3,000 twins, mostly Romany and Jewish children, for his painful genetic experiments. Only about 200 survived. His experiments included taking one twin’s eyeball and attaching it on the back of the other twin’s head or changing the eye color of children by injecting dye. In one instance, two Romany twins were sewn together in an attempt to create conjoined twins.
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The word Holocaust is from the Greek words ""holos" (whole) and "kaustos" (burned)
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Hitler viewed the Jewish race as a menial race of people that were below the pure bread German Aryan, this hatred eventually caused Hitler to try to exterminate the Jewish Race in what became known as the Holocaust
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The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union was ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing.
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tanks,guns,poison gas
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casualties 700,000+ dead
