History Surrounding Industrialism

By juliennewang

  • Steam Engines was Invented

  • Elias Howe invents the sewing machine

  • Bessemer Method

  • Model T invented by Henry Ford

  • World War I Begins

  • US enters the war on the side of France and Britain

  • Selective Service Act- authorizing the draft

  • Treaty of Versailles at Paris

  • Unemployment low 3.2%

  • Wall Street Stock Market Crash

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Unemployment 8.9%

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff- raising import duties

  • 16.3% unemployment

  • Major Bank Collapse: New York's Bank of the United States $200 million in deposite lost

  • Roosevelt Inauguration: New Deal including CCC, WPA

  • Townsend Plan Incorporated: included Old Age Revolving Pension

  • Unemployment 14.3%

  • Roosevelt Relection

  • Neutrality Act

  • House un-American Activities Committee: investigate communist

  • Increase US defense spending

  • World War II begins

  • Period: to

    The Red Scare toward communistic Soviet Union

  • Lend Lease Program

  • mobilization lifts economy: Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. enters WWII

  • Big Three in Yalta

  • Atomic Bomb Test

  • Big Three in Potsdam

  • Hiroshima

  • Nagasaki

  • Tokyo Petitions for Peace

  • World War ends

  • Start of the Cold War

  • President Harry S.Truman Loyalty Order

  • Hiroshima was painted by Janet Sobel

  • Berlin Blockade and airlift

  • Korean War

  • Space Race

  • Cuba became communist

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Strategic arms limitation talks

  • The Big Red Lens was constructed by Frederick Eversley

  • Reunited Germany

  • Depression Bread line was Sculputed by George Segal

  • End of Cold War