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The Flapper
During the twenties, a new ideal emerged for some now that were called a flapper. They wore close-fitting felt hates, bright waistless dresses an inch above the knees, skin-toned silk stockings, sleek pumps, and strings of beads replaced the dark and prim ankle-length dresses, whalebone corsets, and petticoats of Victorian times. They got hair cuts that were called "The Bob cut." -
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Roaring 20's
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Radio Comes of Age
Although major magazines and newspapers reached big audiences, radio was the most powerful communications medium to emerge in the 1920's. Americans added terms such as "airwaves," "radio audience," and "tune in" to their everday speech. By the end of the decade, the radio networks had created something new in the United States- the shared national experience of hearing the news as it happened. -
Organized Crime
Prohibition not only generated disrespect for the law, it also contributed to organized crime in nearly every major city. Chicago became notorious as the home of Al Capone, a gangster whose bootlegging empire gained over $60 million a year. Capone took control of the Chicago liquor business by killing off his competition. -
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The Great Depression
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Children Suffer Hardships
Children suffer hardships, they didn't have good diets and had lack of moey for health care which lead to serious health problems. 2,600 schools across the nation had shut down and that left over 300,000 kids out of school. once the schools were shut down most kids looked for jobs. -
Social and Phychological Effects.
The Great Depression had led to people to become deress and some people lost their will to survive. between 1928 and 1932, the suicide rate rose more than 30 percent. Three times as many people were admitted to state mentol hospitals as in normal times. -
The Depression In The Cities
In cities across the country, people lost their jobs, they were evicted from their homes and ended up in the streets. some slept in parks, or sewer pipes, wrapping themselfs in newspaper to fend off the cold. others built makeshift shakes out of scrap materials. -
The Dust Bowl
The drought that began in the 1930's wreaked havoc on the Great Plains. When they first started little grass and few tress were left to hold the soil down. The dust traveled hundreds of miles. One windstorm in the 1934 picked up millions of tons of dust from the plains and carried it to the East Cost cities. -
Jew Targeted
Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, they were the main target. The German's were looking for a scapegoat, so they blamed the Jews for their cause of their failures. Hitler found that a majority of Germans were willing to support his belief that Jews were responsible for German's econmoic problems and defeat in World War I. In 1935 the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. -
A flood of Jewish Refugees
Kristallnacht marked a step up in the Nazi policy of Jewish persecution. Jews fleeing Germany had trouble finding nations that would accept them. France already had 40,000 Jewish refugees and did not want anymore. The British worried about fueling anti-Semitism and refused to admit more than 80,000 Jewish refugees. They also controlled Palestine (later Israel) and allowed 30,000 refugees to settle there. -
Kristallnacht
November 9-10 1938, became knows as Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass. Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, buisnesses, and synagogues across Germany. Jewish shop windows were shattered and the main streets were covered in glass. Around 100 Jews were killed, and hundreds more were injured. Almost 30,000 Jews were arrested and afterward, the Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction. -
Truman Becomes President
Truman became president when Frankliv Roosevelt died. This former Missouri senator had been picked as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944. He had served as vice president for just a few months before Roosevelt's death. He had not known that the United States was delevoping an atomic bomb. -
The United Nations
In spite of these problems, hopes for world peace were high at the end of the war. On April 25, 1945, the representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish this neww peacekeeping body. After two months of debate, of June 26, 1945, the delegates signed the charter establishing the UN. Even though the UN was intended to promote peace, in soon became an area in which the two superpowers competed. -
The Berlin Airlift
In attempt to break the blockade, American and British officials started the Berlin airlift to flu food and supplies into west Berlin. For 327 days, planes took off and landed every few minutes around the clock. In 277,000 flights, they brought in 2.3 million tons of supplies, everything from food, fuel, and medicine to Christmas presents that the planes crews bought with their own money. -
The Cuban Dilemma
Castro gained power with the promise of democracy. From 1956 to 1959, he led a guerrilla movement to topple dictator Fulgencio Batista. He won control in 1959. The United States was suspicious of Castro's intentions but nevertheless recognized the new government. When Castro seized three American and British ol refineries, relations between the United States and Cuba worsened. -
The Bay of Pigs
In Marach 1960, President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train CUban exiles for an invasion of Cuba. The CIA and the exiles hoped it would trigger a mass uprising that would overthrow Castro. On the night of April 17, 1961, some 1.300 to 1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the U.S. military landed on the inland's southern cost at Bahia de Cochinos. Nothing went as planned and they failed horribly -
The Cuban Missle Crisis
Castro had a powerful ally in Moscow: Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev, who promised to defend Cuba with Soviet arms. During the summber of 1962, the flow to Cuba of Soviet weapons, including nuclear missles increased greatly. President Kennedy responded with a warning that America would not tolerate offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba. Then, on October 14, photographs taken by American planes revealed SOviet missles bases in Cuba, and some contained missles ready to launch.
