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THE SPARK OF WW1
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary = Sarajevo. -
CAUSES OF WW1
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
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NEW WEAPONS
Tanks, machine guns, poison gas... -
TRENCH WARFARE
The way they fought, a few trenches fighting against each other. -
ELECTION OF 1916
Wilson "dove" and Charles E. Hughes: "Hawks". Both hands campaigned for peace and neutrality. -
FOUR MAIN FRONTS
Great Britain, France, United States and Germany. -
FOURTEEN POINTS
Created by Woodrow Wilson, the Fourteen Points were the best chance to end the fights and finally bring peace to Europe. -
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
Treat of peace between France, Great Britain and the United States created at the end of the World War 1. -
FLAPPERS
A flapper was a term for the women that wore short skirts, short hair and listened to Jazz Music. -
19th AMENDMENT
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Women got the right to vote. -
JAZZ MUSIC
The 1920s was the year in which the famous music genre called 'Jazz' was created, and that was the type of music the flappers listened. -
STOCK MARKET
During the 1920s, people were buying on the margin. They bought stocks and only paid a part of them. -
PROHIBITION
Prohibition was a new rule created for all the people in the United States, and it was basically that people could not drink, sale, or create alcohol. -
SPEAKEASY
That was the term that referred to the illegal bars that actually did sell alcohol during prohibition. -
LINCOLN'S MEMORIAL
A memorial dedicated to Abraham Lincoln was built in 1922 in Washington D.C. -
TIME MAGAZINE
In 1923, the famous magazine called 'Time Magazine' was published for the first time. -
Jocham Peiper
He was an army officer -
CALVIN COOLIDGE'S PRESIDENCY
Calvin Coolidge won his first election and was proclaimed president of the United States of America. -
SCOTT FITZGERARD
The author of "The Great Gatsby", and more famous books. -
THEORY OF EVOLUTION
In the 1920s, the Theory of Evolution was beginning to be a thing and the teacherJohn T. Scoppes from Tenessee was the one that started teaching it in school -
PROSPERITY
A successful, flourishing or thriving condition (business cycle) -
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
A period lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the U.S. economy was in a severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed -
THE RED SCARE
Society suffered fear because there was a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism -
FOREIGN POLICY
The US passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff in the 1930s stopping the flow of foreign goods into the US. -
THE THREE R'S
Relief, Recovery, and Reform. It was a new deal program created by Roosevelt. -
NATION BANK HOLIDAY
The goal of this order was to inspect the banks and have them all controlled. -
BRAIN TRUST
An organization full of experts. He created it to receive help and advise. -
FRANCES PERKINS
Frances Perkins was the first woman that Roosevelt appointed to his cabinet. -
CHARLES COUGHLIN
He was also called the 'Radio Priest' and he supported FDR at first, Then, he grew impatiently with New Deal. -
KING FISH
His real name was Huey Long, and he was Louisiana's governor and senator. His purpose was to share the wealth. -
THEORY OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESS
Total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation. -
THE BEGINNING OF WWII
World War 2 started in 1939 when Adolf Hitler attacked and invaded Poland. -
MAIN CAUSES OF WW2
Nationalism, imperialism, militarism, fascism and totalitarian dictatorships. -
ALLIED POWERS
Germany, Japan, Italy -
HITLER
Adolf Hitler, an Austrian man, joined the German army in WW1. He was never an officer and was wounded in the leg. His purpose was to 'save Germany', so he became a dictator of the country. -
AXIS POWERS
Germany, Austria Turkey -
FASCISM IN GERMANY
Adolf Hitler's goal was to rebuild Germany because he wasn't happy with how the country was working.
