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Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 mi off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917. -
Trench Warfare
A type of warfare that was fought in trenches -
U-boats
A German submarine used in WW1 or WW2 -
Allied Powers
The allied powers were Great Britain, France, Russia, United Kingdom, Serbia, Italy, Belgium, and United States -
Franz Ferdanand
He got assassinated and it sparked WW1. He's from Austria-Hungary -
Central Powers
The Central Powers were Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire -
League of nations
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
19th amendment
In 1920 the 19th amendment was established and it gained the woman the right to vote -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", -
NAACP
National Association for the advancement of colored people -
Sacco-Vanzetti
Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery -
Red scare
A time period when Americans greatly feared communism -
Immigration
Moving from one place to another -
Teapot dome scandal
Bribery scandal involving the administration of united states -
Anarchist
People who want to do away with Government -
Flapper
A young woman, especially of the 1920's who shows bold freedom -
Liberal
Open minded, willing to accept new ideas and bring about change -
Urbanization
The growth of cities and the suburbs surrounding them -
Stock market crash
considered the worst economic event in world history – began on Thursday, October 24, 1929, with skittish investors trading a record 12.9 million shares -
The crash of 1929
Banks which had invested money in the stock market lost much in the crash and after -
City life during the Great Depression
Greatly changed after the banks started to fail, people by millions lost their jobs were evicted from there houses -
Family life in the great depression
Men who had been the wage earners now suffered because they saw themselves as failures -
President Hoover's response
Hoover believed the depression could be stopped through voluntary action, not direct relief -
Bonus army crackdown
The spring of 1932 between 10 and 20 thousand WWI vets came to Washington to demand their war bonuses early -
Farm during great depression
Great Plains had been overplanted during the '20s -
Growing Unemployment
Its a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force -
One of the causes of great depression
People were relying too much on the buy now pay later system -
Dust bowl
an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move. -
Rise of the Nazi party
The votes that the Nazis received in the 1932 elections established the Nazi Party as the largest parliamentary faction of the Weimar Republic government -
Hitler takes control
In 1934, President Von Hindenburg died and Hiter was the new President -
Aggression in Europe
Hitler rearmed and sent troops to the Rhineland -
Battle of britains
The 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 -
Attack on 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 -
European Theater
Britain stood alone against the axis -
Eastern Front
The Nazis were fighting the Russians in Stalingrad -
Western Front
Genera; Eisenhower planned D-day for June 6, 1944 -
Battle of the bulge
Allies were pushing from the West to South -
German surrender
Hitler committed suicide before he could be captured -
United Nations
International peace-keeping organization after World War II -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 29, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. -
Berlin Blockade
It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
38th parallel
Divides North and South Korea -
Capitalism
An economic system based on private property, including private ownership of the means of production, and the profit motive -
Bay of pigs invasion
On April 17, 1961. 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
