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WW1 experiences of soldiers
Trenches
Trend foot
Rats
Noise
Death of friends
Shell shock
Other emotions
Battles
This lasted until November of 1918 -
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First Quarter
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Women in WW1
1.What jobd did women do during WW1?
A: Location was a factor, Generally women in urban areas had more opprtunities such as factories, while women in rural areas gendet to be drawn to the, still vital, task of replacing farm labores.- How did people react to an increase in women workers? A: There was a lot of oposition to women during work that was traditionally done by men. Some of this was sexist, but some were scared that women would make wages lower for men.
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Treaty of Versailles
Germany had to accept the blame for starting the war, payed $10 billion dlls for reparations and damage done during the war. Germany was forbidden to have submarines or airforce, the most was a 6 battleship navy and just 100,000 men. Germany´s colonies were given to Britain and France -
The Great Depression
1) People were evicted from home. 2) People lived hovervilled, trains and poor places. 3) Many people became very poor. 4) People began killing each other. 5) Lack of jobs, food and money. -
Wall Street Crash - 1929
After World War 1 a series of events happened that caused an economic boom which became known as the Roaring 20s which was when everything changed. The value of shares of the US stock market raised rapidly, in October 24 "black Thursday" were 12,894,650 shares sold. After that bankrupcy took place. -
Jewish Ghettos
Jewish Ghettos had many bad things, they lived and die very poorly. They lived overcrowded, in poverty, and spontaniousley, they moved very often from one place to another. In these places, death was most common than anything else, they could die from so many reasons such as hunger, disease, shot, burned, beaten by any reason. They lived so scared. -
Death Camps
The death camps were so terrible for Jewish people specially. First, they were taken on a train for approximately 3 days. It was awful inside the trains, there was no space for people to sea down and not toilets/bathrooms either. Lots of people died on the journeys to the death/concentration camps. If not they were killed and burned. -
Pearl Harbour
This was an attack on the American naval base by Japanese forces on December, within 2 hours, 5 battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged and 188 aircraft destroyed. The attacks killed over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injuired. -
Atomic Bombs
The US used a massive atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT which killed tens of thousands of civilians. Japan was bearly recovering and 3 days later, US attacked once more, this time in Nagasaki. -
Hyperinflation
Germany could not afford payments, France sends in troops. Germany workers go on strike, No production : hyperinflation, Germany stope strike - economy improves. -
America 1920s KKK
This was the early salute of the Pledge of Allegiance, promoted by National Socialists in the USA 3 decades before it was adopted by the National Socialist German Workers Party.
