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Transforming The West
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Morril Grant College Act
Named for its sponsor, Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill, it granted each state 30,000 acres. Funds from the sale of the land were used by some states to establish new schools; other states turned the money over to existing state or private colleges to create schools of agriculture and mechanic arts. -
Union Pacific
One of the two companies that ended up controlling the Transcontinental Railroad. The Union Pacific Railroad, would build westward from the Missouri River, near the Iowa-Nebraska border. The two lines of track would meet in the middle. From the beginning, then, the building of the transcontinental railroad was set up in terms of a competition between the two companies. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862 only allowed for the head of the household to apply for a grant to a 160 acre piece of land. This required them to pay a small fee and live on the land for five years and improve it. Making it "better" from its previous untamed state in the wild. -
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Becoming An Industrial Power
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African Americans
After the Civil War ended, many African Americans were free from plantations and could go wherever they pleased. Many left the south due to the racial inequalities happening at the time. But many different things happen to them, some become successful in their new homes while others live a very hard life and experience poverty. -
Native Whites
White people who were born in America began to move about the country much more, and began to feel a sense of entitlement much more than usual, this was just the beginning of some changes that Native White-Americans would cause, like kicking out the natives from their homes without any permission, also there was a discrimination against white immigrants. -
Laissez Faire
This was a popular political, and economical idea that the government should have very limited interference with businesses. Because at the time many companies began doing very aggressive techniques to control their businesses and the line of production, one person that could come to mind is Andrew Carnegie who had a vertically integrated way of production. -
Robber Barons
Robber Baron was a term applied to a businessman in the 19th century who engaged in unethical/monopolistic practices, political influence, wealth. The term itself dated back centuries, and was originally applied to noblemen in the Middle Ages who were literally “robber barons.” In the 1870s the term began to be used to describe business tycoons, and persisted throughout the rest of the 19th century. -
Immigrants
As the United States began to grow, it became very idealistic for those living in foreign countries. Many came from Europe, most specifically Eastern Europe and China as well. These groups of people risked everything and left their homes to start a new life. The Irish most specifically left because they were facing a potato famine. -
Philanthropy
Philanthropy is the act of giving welfare to the less wealthy even if you don't personally know them,and this practice included donating to charities. This practice wasn't fairly common at the time but there were rich people who practiced this like Cornelius Vanderbilt. -
Slums
Job opportunities were rampant across urban cities, so with both immigrants and people from rural areas moving to the cities space was limited, and not many people had the money or resources to build, so people lived in buildings were there could be many people sharing one room, simply because they were poor and couldn't afford more than that. -
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The Gilded Age
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Salvation Army
An organization that had its roots in England soon made its way to the United States. This organization was focused heavily on converting people who were socially unacceptable, or immigrants to Christianity. They also introduced the concept of soup kitchens, where the poor could get food to eat and potentially receive more help. -
Exodusters
The Exodusters were African Americans who migrated from the South, and it was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War. The number one cause of black migration out of the South at this time was to escape racial violence from whites who felt threatened by blacks from taking their jobs. -
Knights of Labor
This union believed in the same things that other unions did except they were extremely organized and existed in multiple industries with a following of over 700,000 members. The organization had many demands, the eight-hour day, abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and political reforms including the graduated income tax. -
Light Bulb
The "inventor" of the light bulb was known as Thomas Edison, he was responsible for the creation of the modern light bulb and this version of the light bulb became successful due to the extremely accessible and cheap way it was made. Then, in 1880, Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Electric Light Company began marketing its new product. -
Immigration
Many foreigners (most of them of European descent) began to migrate to America in larger numbers than before, many of them were poor and looking for a new start. The United States was idealized globally making life harder for others. But many of these immigrants began to form communities around large cities where many of them stayed. Making ethnocentric communities. -
Nativism
The influx of immigrants into the United States caused many white-native born citizens to feel threatened and almost disgusted by the immigrants, even though their forefathers came here years ago, they view this land as their right. The nativists also believed the immigrants were a source of infection and wanted extreme checks on them. -
YMCA
This was one of the many forms of social welfare to appear out of the Gilded Age, the Young Men's Christian Association was a way to keep young men at the time out of trouble and away from the influences of society at the time. They had many different programs designed to uplift men and teach them about society. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This law stopped any and all immigration by the Chinese into the United States, after about a decade of Chinese discrimination due to this particular group "taking" jobs from white Americans. Wages began to decrease and the government made the move of banning the Chinese, this was the first significant immigration restriction. -
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
The ideas of what the west was like soon became very idealized and fictional, soon these ideas were capitalized upon and with that the Buffalo Bill Wild West show gained popularity. Actual cowboys and Indians decided to participate in fake fights for the shows, leading to money. Even Sitting Bull participated in these shows to make money for his people -
Cocaine toothache drops
Cocaine in the 1800s was considered a cure for many things and it also an anesthesia that helped with pain. All Over Albany cited a Brooklyn Union article that described a method of using cocaine to numb pain in dental procedures. According to the article, teeth could be drawn and nerves removed with little or no pain. -
Ethnic Communities/Neighborhoods
Many immigrants ended up moving or staying in the same city, and often would live next to each other, so they would recreate their environments similar to how their home country was setup. That's how places like Chinatown came to be, with many people of the same culture coming together to help each other adjust to their new environment. -
Ward Boss
Ward bosses were people who controlled a unit of a political party, they don't hold a political office, but they did hold political influence by manipulating votes or using the amount of votes they get as a form of control. When the party wins, they typically control appointments in their unit, and have a voice at the higher levels. -
Coca Cola
Coke was originally intended to be a medicine, and was made by the pharmacist John Pemberton. John Pemberton concocted the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton's bookkeeper Frank Robinson. Until 1905, the soft drink, marketed as a tonic, contained extracts of cocaine as well as the kola nut. -
Dawes Severalty Act
This law directly affected Native Americans after they got pushed away from their homes, and this was created to boost assimilation in to the white American society with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man’s image. This law was the direct creation of Henry Dawes, a senator from Massachusetts. -
Monopolies
During the rise of companies and corporations at the time there were almost no ways to stop these companies from sweeping the competition, thus controlling the industry and its prices. During the late 1800s, numerous monopolies existed. One of the most powerful monopolies was that of the Standard Oil Company. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890. This legislation authorized the federal government to break up any businesses that prohibited competition. -
Vertical Integration
Many major companies at the time wanted to buy out their competition in order to maintain control of the industry at all levels and keep the prices fixed. Vertical integration basically is the idea that if you control all levels of production the price for you to produce things will lower. -
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Imperialism
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City Beautiful Movement
American urban-planning movement led by architects, landscape architects, and reformers that flourished between the 1890s and the 1920s. The idea of organized comprehensive urban planning arose in the United States.The movement first gained ground in 1893 with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. -
World's Colombian Exposition of 1893
This was a fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to spread over 686 acres. There was an area called, the “White City,” electrically lighted at night, temporarily led to a interest in Classical architecture. -
Social Darwinism
This is a theory that once applied to natural selection made by Charles Darwin, and the theory is that the weak would only grow weaker while the strong people in the culture would grow stronger. Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest." -
Progressives
During this age, many people felt a need for social reform, this wasn't a specific movement, but there were many movements at the time which made these people become known as Progressives. Many of the reforms involved health, Women's rights, the middle class, governmental protection, Capitalism -
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Election of 1896
The election of 1896 was important to American society because, the election centered around economics. On the Republican side, William McKinley wanted to see gold as the standard currency, and on the Democrat side William Jennings Bryan wanted silver as the currency. At the end of the election, Mckinley wins, 51% to 47%. -
Yellow Journalism
This is a form of journalism that did not tell the truth, or at least the whole truth. This type of reporting is based off of lies, and sensationalism. We first saw this become popular when an American ship was thought to have been sunk by Spanish fleets. This was picked up by yellow journalism and made many Americans outraged, leading to the Spanish-American War. -
Treaty of Paris (1898)
This treaty was the key to ending the Spanish-American War. The signed treaty included a few things for the United States, acquisitions of Spain's territories, Cuba ,Puerto Rico and Guam. The treaty was desperately signed after six long months of hostility. On October 1st, 1898 the treaty. This war costed over 20 million dollars. -
Boxer Rebellion
This rebellion was set up by, a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists caused uprisings in China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The people who rebelled were called boxers because, they performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets, and still kill foreigners. -
Open Door Policy
This was a statement of principles that were initiated by the United States. The ability for equal access for all countries that trade with China support of the Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. Secretary of State John Hay was the one who gave this order to England, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Russia. This policy was received to be almost as a universal plan and supported. -
Picture Brides
These were Japanese women who were wanting to immigrate to America and they sent pictures of themselves in the mail to the groom, and the groom would do the same. In general, the picture bride practice conformed to traditional marriage customs as parents or relatives in Japan chose wives for single migrant men working in America and Hawai'i. In Japan, heads of households selected marriage partners. -
Election of 1900
It was a rematch of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish-American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory. President McKinley chose Theodore Roosevelt as his running mate because Garret Hobart had died from heart failure in 1899. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Teddy Roosevelt was a very important president, he became the president after McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As a president he was very liberal and wanted to protect Americans and did this by getting rid of monopolies, in order to protect consumers. He also did many things to protect the environment with the foundation of national parks. -
Big Stick Policy
This policy was popularized and made up by Theodore Roosevelt that asserted U.S. domination when such dominance was considered important. Roosevelt cited his fondness for a West African proverb, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” in Latin America and the Caribbean, he enacted the Big Stick policy when Europe was trying to collect a debt. -
Henry Ford
The founder and CEO of Ford Motor. Wanted to make cars originally available for farmers, and he soon realized the car became very popular to the common man. The car was extremely affordable compared to the cars back then that were usually only made for the rich. He soon increased production of his car, the Model T with the assembly line process -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or mislabeled or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. Also, the FDA became a new institution that would help maintain the quality. -
The Jungle
This book written by Upton Sinclair exposed the meat industry for its gross and unsanitary practices. Sinclair described the lack of care for the meat and the deplorable conditions it was being left out in and sold to people. The news of this book spread extremely far and grossed people out, it made them want to see change in the meet industry. -
Muckrakers
Muckrakers were writers/journalists who wanted to expose corruption, whether it be government or business. This term became popular due to Theodore Roosevelt when he compared a man with a muck rake. The usage of this word and henceforth the term was applied to all those engaged in uncovering scandal and corruption. -
Great White Fleet
President Roosevelt was concerned about Japan's territorial expansion in Asia during the early 1900's and had congress upgrade America's navy ships, then he sent the fleet on a good will cruise around the globe to demonstrate american naval power as well as their ability to intimidate others. This was the first time this tactic was used by the United States as a form of intimidation. -
William Howard Taft
Taft became president simply because Roosevelt didn't want to run more than two terms, and he won the election easily against William Jennings Bryan. During his presidency, there is a lot of infighting and this causes Taft to drift from Roosevelt. Taft was different from Roosevelt because he never pursued much more reforms against monopolies. -
Angel Island
Angel Island was a facility for immigration in the U.S. from 1910-1940. It was considered to be the Ellis Island of the West Coast. It's located in San Francisco Bay, California where a lot of Chinese people immigrated, but after the earthquake in San Francisco, in 1906. Many birth records were lost, which the Chinese took advantage of, so Angel Island was opened in attempt to help identify immigrants. -
Woodrow Wilson
After the mess that happened during the Taft presidency, Roosevelt decided to run again against Woodrow Wilson. But Roosevelt's run caused a split in the republican party making Wilson win. When Wilson is president he begins to cut tariffs and introduces the 16th amendment. Overall he introduced systems that would help the American economy -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment provides for regular voters to elect their Senators. Many of the Senators that were “elected” by the state legislatures had struck corrupt bargains with the legislature and many people were angry over the lack of choice they had. By the time the 17th amendment was proposed, almost thirty states were in favor of directly electing senators. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
A U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, he lead a successful campaign in congress to stop the United States from entering World War I and joining the League of Nations.Initially he endorsed an international peacekeeping mechanism in an address. Lodge felt that the nation’s sovereignty was at stake and that it would be fatal to bind the nation to international commitments. -
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National Park System
This system was established in 1915 by Roosevelt, he felt that there were some ecosystems so beautiful that they had to be protected. As a result he wanted to conserve them, preventing any oil companies from ruining this habitat. This also made Theodore a naturalist. -
Mustard Gas
A chemical weapon that the Germans introduced in 1915 they fired lethal gas along the Western front.This was the first time we saw a gas attack used for warfare. They has begun actively developing chemical weapon when the war broke out. This was a potential double edged sword so, in order to avoid the effects of the gas, the Germans had to wear gas masks. Effects could have been fatal, leaving permanent damage to someone. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was an invention created to communicate. This was a diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office and said that this from of communication would help in war. This was sent from the Germany's secretary from Zimmerman to the Prime minister of Germany. Zimmerman urged Mexico to join the Central Powers. -
WWI Shellshock
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was common during World War I. The psychological distress from soldiers turned serious and caused very serious things. The stress also attributed to concussions caused by the impact of shells and the impact was said to believe to disrupt the brain and cause the "shell shock" it had also been characterized by "the dazed,disoriented state many soldiers experienced during combat or shortly thereafter" -
Vladimir Lenin
The founder of the Communist Party of Russia, also leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. He was a controversial leader and political figure in the 20th century. He was also the first leader of the Soviet Union. Lenin spent his time in exile within Russia. Lenin later shaped the future of the Soviet Union and would warn against the unchecked power of party members. -
U-boats
U-boats were a big revolution when it came to fighting and exploring. This was a new way to fight back. The were Submarines that were used underwater and would sink allied ships around the British Isles as a way to fight back. The U bots were the reason the HMS and Lusitania and the Sussex sank. -
14 Points
These were principles of peace, and they were in a speech given over the war and over war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by president Woodrow Wilson.The fourteen points believed that this would help to promote peace and called for self determination,freedom of seas,free trade,end of secret engagements, reduction of arms and a league of nations. -
Sedition Act
This act was made of the United States Congress and it had extended the Espionage Act to keep protecting America's participation in World War I. This act was meant to extend and guarantee protection. This act also made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the United States armed forces. -
Spanish Flu
one of the deadliest diseases/infection in history, killing about 500 million people around the world which is about one thirds of the worlds population.The disease was said to come from Europe and spread throughout the word by trade or travel. In 1918 it was detected in Europe, the united states, and parts of Asia.Since at the time there were no vaccines. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty officially ended the war with the signing in 1918, during the anniversary of the Archduke's death. It consisted 440 articles which reassessed Germany's boundaries. This treaty stated that Germany would be assigned liability for the reparations needed after World War I. Because of this, the already weak economy of the Germans was crippled. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
This battle lasted into November 1918. This war is very memorable because it was the biggest operation and victory of the American expeditionary force during World War I. This had been the greatest battle of all of WWI and in a week the AEF lost 26,277 soldiers and had 95,786 soldiers wounded It was the capture of the railroad hub at Sedum that could break the rail net supporting the German Army. -
19th Amendment
This amendment was passed in order to allow anyone to vote no matter what their race or sex is. Of course, for women this meant that they were allowed to vote. Since this granted woman a right to vote it was also known as women's suffrage. Before the 19th amendment , women around america and woman part of the Seneca Falls Convention had organized protests -
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Volstead Act
The Volstead act was a U.S law made in 1919 and took effects in 1920 and this provided enforcement for the eighteenth amendment. The Volstead act prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. This act had overrode presidents Woodrow Wilson veto of the national Prohibition act. The law established the prohibition bureau withing the treasury department. It had been an under-budgeted and largely ineffective -
Teapot Dome Scandal
an incident that took place in the United States from 1921-1922. The scandal had happened between the Harding administration in which secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall profited from secret leasing to private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elks Hills,California. President Warren G Harding cabinet was found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. -
Booker T. Washington Influencing Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a black nationalist that was popular in the 1920s for his radical views on white Americans and what black people should do. his influence had been Booker T because of the influence Booker T. had and how he helped and fought hard to support industrial education,economic segregation that would help the "black race". -
Black Movements
African Americans became leaders of protest and the movement towards equality in the United States. Because of the great migration many blacks poured through and not many were agreeing tot this because of less jobs less homes and less money and this caused discrimination and judgement but the African Americans decided to fight back. -
Ku Klux Klan
During the 1920's racial tensions were beginning to spike, and many white Americans joined. Up to four million members. The members didn't almost exclusively live in the south as they did today. Even a president became a practicing KKK member. The KKK was responsible for thousands of lynchings and burnings of African-Americans by KKK members were not stopped by the government. -
Immigration Act of 1924
This bill essentially cut quotas for people from foreign countries from 3% to 2%.This varied countries were only allowed to send a certain number of its citizens to America each year.They also anted to control how many people entered the U.S because Americans started to show anger over no action being done over immigrants entering America. This primarily affected the Japanese -
American Indian Act.
This was an act that gave indians citizenship for enlisting into the war and fighting for the military. They still faced many circles and hoops from Congress before they were able to get their citizenship. Congress found this unfair and demanded for them to be granted citizenship to all Native Americans that were born in the United States. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem renaissance was a huge African American culture movement that occurred in the 20th century that started of in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca and celebrated the social and artistic explosion that resulted.This was considered the golden age in African American culture manifesting in literature, music, stage performances and art. -
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St. Valentines Day Massacre
A mafia boss known as Al Capone murdered his enemies. He was known to killing his rivals in the illegal trades of gambling, and prostitution. The massacre had taken place in Chicago at a garage on the city's north side. The enemies were gunned down while standing lined up facing the wall of the garage on the street. -
The Great Depression
This is definitely the worst economic recession, and this lasted for about ten years from 1929 to 1939. The stock market crashed in October and Wall Street was sent into a frenzy. During the days leading up to it and afterwards, people began drawing tons of money out their accounts, messing with the banks. People were extremely poor during this time and struggled to live. -
The Mexican Repatriation
This act took place in 1930 during the Great Depression and during this time the government forced out about one million people back to Mexico, and this was not labeled as a deportation because it was thought as a return of people to their native country. Overall, about 60% of Mexicans were removed from the United States. -
Election of 1932
This election was ran between Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Hoover was running for his second term, while Roosevelt was running for the first time as a democrat. This election took place as effects of the Great Depression were being felt across the United States. But Hoover suffered being blamed for the depression, so he lost. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife of Franklin Roosevelt, and First Lady of the United States. She played an integral role to the FDR presidency as she was viewed to be the ears, eyes, and right hand to the president. She was also one of the most active first ladies in history and worked for political, racial and social justice. After President Roosevelt’s death, Eleanor was a delegate to the United Nations and continued to serve -
Emergency Relief
This was an effort to provide relief to the unemployed Americans back in the Great Depression. Due to the economic downfall, almost half of the Americans didn't have a job, and as a result they lost the ability to feed themselves or their family. The main goal of this was to help Americans from poverty, no matter what their race was. This included soup kitchens and other relief programs. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment which is also known as the "same duck" period following election day in November. The amendment had been ratified in 1933 and the amendment had shortened the period of time of lame duck members of Congress could stay in office after an election was handled. The amendment includes two principle sections, the first one fixes the start dates for the regular term of members and the second section states that Congress shall commence a new session each year. -
National Industrial Recovery Act
The National Recovery Act was enacted by congress and it had been one of the things FDR had done to assist the nations economic recovery during the horrible Great Depression that had affected America,The NIRA was something different and unique thing that sanctioned,supported, and in some cases enforced an alliance of industries. This helped every citizen, not specifically white people, and created better labor oragnaizations. -
Glass-Stegall Act
An effective act that separated commercial banking and investing banking, it helped create a new system that would protect American's money if there were to be another depression. This was called the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the FDIC. This law was extremely controversial among lawmakers until Franklin D Roosevelt signed it into law, which was only a few days after it was proposed. -
Huey Long
He was a powerful politician that also happened to be the 40th governor of Louisiana. He believed that there should be a redistribution of wealth. This was extremely popular with Americans that suffered the effects of the Great Depression. Long also believed in helped the elderly secure benefits and an income after they retired. Huey Long was seen as a potential election threat and was assassinated in 1935. -
The Dust bowl
The land in the 1930's was extremely dry and didn't have anything to hold it down to the ground such as grass. This was caused by the over farming of the land. People and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. This was due to the wind speeds being so high there would be dust clouds for miles, and it only added to the despair of the Great Depression. Because of this, many families left their rural homes and went to California. -
NAZI (National Socialist-German Workers' Party)
This party, more commonly known as the Nazis, and this party was lead by the infamous Adolf Hitler. This party gained heavy traction in the 1930s, and Hitler soon gained control of the country through totalitarian means. After Germany’s defeat in WWII, the Nazi Party was outlawed. Many of its top officials were convicted of war crimes. -
World War II
This war was caused by the previous events of World War I that went unresolved. Germany was going through a large recession and inflation. Hitler became important in German society to help bring Germany back to glory. On September 1st, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland from the west and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany and this began the deadly war. n 1945 President Harry S.Truman discussed the war with japan and agreed a peace settlement. -
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. It is located in southern Poland and initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. It later evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other members of persecuted groups were killed, often in gas chambers, medical experiments or used as slave labor. -
Tuskegee Airmen
They were the first African American pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They were trained at the Tuskegee Air Field in Alabama, they flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during WWII. The program’s trainees, nearly all of them college graduates that from the country. Their performance earned them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and helped encourage the integration. -
Holocaust
The mass killing of over 6 million Jews who lived in Europe and other despised groups, like gypsies and gays. They were killed by German Nazi group throughout the World War II. A vast majority of Germans viewed the Jewish people as an inferior group of people, a hindrance to German economy and society. Jews were sent to concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, all over Europe. -
Executive Order 9066
An executive order that was signed during World War II by Franklin D. Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor. The order was said to have been authorized to prescribe certain areas as military zones and clearing the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans and also including German Americans and Italian Americans in concentration camps located in The U.S. -
D-Day
The Allied Forces reached northern France through beach landings in Normandy, a region in France. The forces contained, 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces that landed along a 50-mile stretch of the coast of Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and it required extensive planning. It also was delayed for weather issues. -
Joseph Stalin
He was the dictator of the Soviet Union. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society and now he made it a communist nation. Stalin ruled by terrorizing the millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Stalin helped with the United States and Britain in WWII, he then later engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War. -
Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin had been designated to the Berlin strategic offensive operation by the Soviet Union and this had been the final major offensive of the European Theater of World War II. On April 16th 1945 the red army had reached the German front and the soviet fronts, Hitler and many of his followers committed suicide before battle -
Soviet Union Declares War
The Soviets decide to declare war with Japan, the soviets has millions of soldiers battle the Japanese in Manchuria, northeastern China to take a huge storm Japanese army. This was after the United States already dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Because of the attempt on the Japanese Army trying to invade Mongolia it then led to the attack of pearl harbor in 1941 and created conflict
