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Theodore thought that he was going to become govenor for a second term but he was promoted to become vice president. He was vice president for six months and those six months were uneventful.
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Uprising agaisnt Christian and foreign presence. This took place in North China
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New Yorks KnickerBockers bank failed. Depositors rushed to take their money out and that caused 246 banks to fail.
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Federal Reserve Acfr was created to slow down financial panics and prevent less problems than there has to be.
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By the 16th Amendment being passed this allows the congress to tax U.S citizen. This is also known as the federal income tax which goes straight to the congress.
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Henry Ford became famous for his cars and the reproductions of his products. He became more well known because of the mass production and how well his company handled the mass production.
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The Clayton AntiTrust Act was put into place requiring all companys to have specific and set conduct for each of their workers and products.
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Allied countries including the British Empire nd the Russian Countries fought against five central powers.
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Germany tried to pay for the costs they owed to France causing them to go through a hyper inflation.
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Europe starts to recover from there dramatic tragedy and begins to rise in powers again.
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The Gold Standard appeared to be back in place and world trade was 42% higher than in 1913 in 1929
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Starting point of the Great Depression.Lasted througout most of the 30's and into the 40's The Depression destroyed the established order.• Germany, Itlaly, and their fascist brethen rejected Global integration. - Autarky, state intervention, antilabor repression.
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act promised to raise trade barriers to make trading easier for most countries.
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Air Traveling is now in affect for people to fly in an airplane
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The Fascists had promised to fix the economic problems Countries included:• Italy, Spain, Albainia, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Yugoslavia, Romainia, Australia, Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Greece• The Depression destroyed the established order.• Germany, Itlaly, and their fascist brethen rejected Global integration. - Autarky, state intervention, antilabor repression.
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Sweden and the USA began building Social Democracy
Governement spending to reduce unemployment • Social insurance in Sweden • Social Democrats were now allied with both traditionally antagonist farmers and at peace with bi business. Social Democracy had arrived in Sweden. -
This ensures support for farmers and tarrifs in Sweden under Social Demoracy.
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Autarky was a response to the failed classical economy by most debtor nations - this was in fascist form or nationalist
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Many different countries participated in this and they had many expositions about vwhat the furture would be like.
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Roosevelt and Churchill announced the Atlantic Charter stating joint War aims. UK got loans from the US in return UK eliminated all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and the reduction of trade barriers • The British had bent to USA viewUS and GB began developing ITO -to manage reduction of trade barriers.
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Keynes and White had established what would be a compromise between the international stability of a gold-dollar standard and the national felxibility of managed currencies.
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The most important element was to have the USA engaged for those who wanted economic integration. 3 main components: 1) freer trade 2) international monetary stability, 3) the recovery of international investment
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Remote controls have array of buttons for adjusting various settings such as television channel, and volume. In fact, for the majority of modern devices, the remote contains all the function controls while the controlled device itself only has a handful of essential primary controls.
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A microwave oven, or a microwave, is a kitchen appliance that cooks or heats food by dielectric heating. This is accomplished by using microwave radiation to heat water and other polarized molecules within the food.
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Pacemaker is a medical device which uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart. The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an adequate heart rate, either because the heart's pacemaker is not fast enough, or there is a block in the heart's arteries
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Randolph Smith and Kenneth House patent a battery-powered smoke detector for home use. Later models rely on perhaps the cheapest nuclear technology you can own: a chunk of americium-241. The element's radioactive particles generate a small electric current. If smoke enters the chamber it disrupts the current, triggering an alarm.
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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide
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James Russell, a scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, invents the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, in which sounds are represented by a string of 0s and 1s and a laser reads the binary patterns etched on a photosensitive platter.
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The MRI is primarily a medical imaging technique most commonly used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structure and limited function of the body
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The GPS is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use
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Telstar is launched as the first "active" communications satellite--active as in amplifying and retransmitting incoming signals, rather than passively bouncing them back to Earth.
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Two airplanes flew into the world trade center and one flew into the pentagon taking many lives.
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iPod The current iPod line. From left to right: iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Touch. Manufacturer Apple Inc.
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Hurricane Katrina was devestating for many people in the gulf coast.
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Barrack Obama is sworn in as Americas first African American president.
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This caused many people to be worried because of the oil spill it created in the gulf coast.