The Lost Generation

  • The Wright Brothers

    The Wright Brothers
    The Wright brothers piloted the first powered airplane, which impacted the military that helped in combat.
  • Henry Ford produces the Model T

    Henry Ford produces the Model T
    Henry ford made the Model T which affected the american life by the source of transprtation and used to express how wealthy you are even though people did not know how to drive but they people still bought them
  • US Declares War on Germany

    US Declares War on Germany
    On April 6, 1917 the United States Congress declared war upon the German Empire; on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration.
  • Black Sox Scandal

    Black Sox Scandal
    The Black Sox Scandal took place during the play of Major League Baseball's 1919 World Series. The Chicago White Sox lost the series to the Cincinnati Reds, and eight White Sox players were later accused of intentionally losing games in exchange for money from gamblers. The players were acquitted in court, but nevertheless, they were all banned for life from organized baseball.
  • Women get the right to vote in the USA

    Women get the right to vote in the USA
    Women were able to be apart of voting and made a big impact of society by having more people to vote and gave women more rights.
  • Women of the Ku Klux Klan

    Women of the Ku Klux Klan
    During the wave of the 1920s, activism was strongest due to the efforts of women's suffrage. Many members were related to Klansmen. Some women joined the WKKK against the wishes of their husbands who felt it out of their partners' "wifely duty" and a rebellious attempt to increase her political power. Women also joined in an effort to preserve their white Protestant rights as they felt violated by the intrusion of immigrant and African-American voters.
  • Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi Party

    Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi Party
    Hitler was raised head chairman of the nazi party that changed the course of history. The Party was still run by an executive committee whose original members now considered Hitler to be too powerful. To weaken Hitler's position, they formed an alliance with a group of socialists from Augsburg.
  • Stock Market Crashes

    Stock Market Crashes
    After WWI everyone started to invest in the stock market and stock began to rise, it eventually got so high that it crashed because everyone wanted to become rich by investing into the stock market but to do so they have to get money from the bank. black thursday was when the banks pooled together alot of money and invested a large sum back into the stock market and concinced others to stop selling and had recovered but four days later the stock market fell again.
  • The Wall Street Crash

    The Wall Street Crash
    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries.
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition
    Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.The dry movement, led by rural Protestants in the Democratic and Republican parties, was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • The Boxer Rebellion breaks out

    The Boxer Rebellion breaks out
    Or "Yihetuan Movement" was a violent anti-foreigner movement that took place in China between 1990 and 1901. The Boxers fought to challenge the Emporer and rid China of all foreign people, by killing them if necessary.
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    In Lisbon, Portugal this is there way in comparing to the lost generation
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