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Western Front
France -
Eastern Front
Russia -
The Spark
Assassination of Franz Ferdnand of austria hungary sarajevo -
New Weapons
Tanks, Poison Gas, Machine guns. -
Central Powers
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire -
Main Cause of World War 1
Immediate Cause: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, and nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. -
18th Amendment Ratified
The ratification of the 18th Amendment was completed on January 16th, 1919 and would take effect on January 17th, 1920. -
Woodrow Wilson Suffers a Stroke
On October 2, 1919, at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed on his left side and effectively ends his presidential career. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn. -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote. -
1920 Election
While Harding was serving in the Senate, the Republican party nominated him as their presidential candidate for the election of 1920. -
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
Hooverville
People used the term Hooverville to make fun of the president they blamed for their problems. -
Roosevelt's New Deal
While campaigning for president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt promises Americans "a new deal." The programs he creates after he is elected will be called The New Deal. -
FDR Elected
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority, another New Deal program, brings electricity and jobs to Americans living in the southern part of the United States. -
The Emergency Banking act
Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. By the end of the month, almost all of the banks that had closed when the Depression started are open again. -
Huey Long
Share Our Wealth was a movement begun in February 1934 during the Great Depression by Huey Long, a governor. -
Huey Long Assasinated
Huey Long is assassinated inside the Louisiana Capitol Building. -
Direct Cause of World War 2
Below are some of the main causes of World War 2. The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers. Because Germany had lost the war, the treaty was very harsh against Germany. Germany was forced to "accept the responsibility" of the war damages suffered by the Allies. -
2nd Red Scare
The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception of national or foreign communists infiltrating or subverting U.S. society or the federal government. -
European Theater
Name to the fighting that took place in Europe! 1942 Britain stood alone against Axis. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower= supremed allied commander of the European Theater. -
Battle of Britain
DescriptionThe Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was a United States program to provide its allied nations with aid and military materiel to win World War II. -
Attack At Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. -
Doolittle Raid
James Doolittle led a raid on Tokyo with b-25 bombers It helped boost American morale and it also showed Japanese that were not invincible. It inflicted Little damage to the city. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945, and was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
38th Parallel
Divides North and South Korea. -
United Nations
International peace-keeping organization after WW2. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe between 1941 and 1945. -
Truman Doctrine
a policy that America would provide economic and military aid to any nation fighting communism -
Communism
System of government in which a single party controls a state-owned economy. -
Cause Of Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea, which was supported by the United States. General MacArthur, leader of the United Nations forces, drove the North Koreans back across the divide, yet encountered a Chinese invasion. -
Bay of pigs invasion
DescriptionThe Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored rebel group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
capitalism
an economic system based on private property, including private ownership of the means of production, and the profit motive.
