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The Titanic had been described as the worlds most luxurious floating hotel which is unsinkable, and was only 5 days out when she hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic with the loss of many lives.
1.Over 1,500 of the 2,240 passengers and crew lost their lives.
2.It remains a cautionary tale of the arrogance of builders that their creation could ever be flawless or impervious to harm.
3. Left port at around 2 p.m. and arrived in Queenstown, Ireland before crossing the Atlantic. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated, an event that famously kicked off World War I.
1. Mutual Defense Alliances.
2. Imperialism
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After gold was discovered in California in 1848, Americans were desperate for a faster way to get from coast to coast. This desire only increased when Hawaii and the Philippines became U.S
1.25,000 People Died Building the Panama Canal.
2.The Panama Canal Affects 6% Of the World’s Commerce
3.More Than 13,000 Ships Cross the Panama Canal Yearly
4.President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal.
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After sustaining territorial losses in the early 20th century and loss of life during World War I, the czarist regime in Russia was weakened.In early 1917, a revolution protesting food shortages. Started by working class women and including factory workers, soldiers who deserted—overthrew Tsar Nicholas II.
1.Government vs. peasants
2.Catching up with the outside world.
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Two months after WW I ended, world leaders convened in Paris to discuss the terms of peace.The war’s victors—led by the US, Britain, and France—dominated conversations regarding terms of peace and multiple treaties resulted, most notably the Treaty of Versailles, which forced territorial concessions from Germany and limited its army and navy.
1.Though first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, as part of his Fourteen Points plan for an equitable peace in Europe, the US never became a member. -
The high-spirited, mischievous mouse debuted in Steamboat Willie, a short film designed and animated by Ub Iwerks, the chief animator with the then-nascent Walt Disney Company, with direction from Walt Disney. They cast Mickey Mouse as a shipmate on a steamboat captained by a surly cat.
1This cartoon is notable for being both Mickey and Minnie's official debut and also the start of a new era of American animated short subjects, having introduced synchronized sound editing to animated films. -
When the U.S. stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, the Great Depression was already starting to affect countries around the globe.
1.Before WW I, the global economy was booming.
2 The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in modern history, lasting from 1929 until the beginning of WW II 1939.
3Consumer demand, mounting consumer debt, decreased industrial production and the rapid and reckless expansion of the U.S. stock market. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party. The full name of the Nazi Party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Its members were often called Nazis. The Nazis were radically right-wing, antisemitic, anticommunist, and antidemocratic.
1.Upon achieving power, Hitler smashed the nation’s democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. -
In an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and murdered close to 100 Jews.
1. 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps
2.German Jews had been subjected to repressive policies since 1933, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. -
Nazi Germany possessed overwhelming military superiority over Poland. The assault on Poland demonstrated Germany’s ability to combine air power and armor in a new kind of mobile warfare
1Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland
2They falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany
3Britain and France stood by their guarantee of Poland's border and declared war on Germany on Sep 3, 1939. -
The decision was probably made sometime in 1941, with the invasion of the Soviet Union.The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. This program of targeted mass murder was a central part of the Nazis’ broader plans to create a new world order based on their ideology.
1The process of persecution escalated in the late 1930s, before developing into a campaign of mass murder during the course of the Second World War. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hon Hawaii
1U.S. embargoes made Japan increasingly desperate for oil and other essential war materials and led to its provocative decision to occupy French Indochina neighbor to the Philippines, a U.S. territory
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In an effort to liberate France, the Allies stormed the beaches at Normandy with what was the largest shipborne landing in history, augmented by overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks, and naval bombardments.
1The beaches were chosen by planners because they lay within range of air cover, and were less heavily defended than the objective of the Pas de Calais, the shortest distance between Great Britain and the Continent
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General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army, signed three other surrender documents at the same time, one each for Great Britain, Russia, and France. Present were representatives of the 4 Allied Powers – France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States
1After heavy fighting, Soviet forces neared Adolf Hitler’s command bunker in central Berlin. On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide. Within days, Berlin fell to the Soviets. -
Japan refused to submit to the terms outlined in the Allies’ Potsdam Declaration
The bomb was known as “Little Boy”, a uranium guntype bomb that exploded with about 13 kilotons of force. At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was home to 280,000 290,000 civilians as well as 43,000 soldiers.The city of Hiroshima was annihilated by the explosion 70,000 of 76000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and 48,000 of those were entirely razed
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The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest seaports in southern Japan, and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials.
1The explosion affected a total area of approximately 43 square miles. About 8.5 of those square miles were water, and 33 more square miles were only partially settled. Many roads and rail lines escaped major damage. -
After WWII soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do battle directly during the Cold War. But the two superpowers continually antagonized each other through political maneuvering, military coalitions, espionage, propaganda, arms buildups, economic aid, and proxy wars between other nations.
1.The Cold War lasted about 45 years -
Conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself.