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The Start of the Great Depression
https://youtu.be/Xt33vQ8No_w
The start of the Great Depression started right after the stock market crash of October 1929, This wiped out millions of investors and thousands of people began to lose their jobs. Consumer spending and investing even dropped. Throughout the years of the Great Depression, unemployed swept throughout the country. Once the Great Depression reached rock bottom, 13-15 million Americans were unemployed and half of the banks in the U.S, had failed. -
Election of FDR
It was full of mixed opinions during the campaign of FDR. Many saw him as a well experienced man, as he was also govenor of New York. Once elected, he became the 32nd president of the United States. -
The End of the Great Depression
During WWII, over 12 million troops were sent off to war and all their jobs they had back home, seemed to take care of the 17 million unemployed in 1939. So, thanks to World War 11, it helped finally bring an end to the Great Depression. -
Word War II
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World War II started because Germany attacked Poland. It officially started when the prime minister of Britain declared war on Germany. Many countries became involved in this war. -
Operation Barbarossa
This was a special codename for the Natzi's invasion of the Soviet Union. This was during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by hundreds of Japanese fighter planes against a U.S. military naval base, located in Hawaii. Lasted about 2 hours, but was a devasting moment. More than 2,000 soldiers and sailors died. This led the U.S. entry in WWII. -
Marshall Plan
This was the United States initiative to aid Western Europe. The U.S. gave them about 13 billion dollars. They gave them this economic support in order to help rebuild Western Europe economies, after WWII. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
This was during a time of unfair inequality between whites and blacks. Brown vs. Board of Education was a courtcase that overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson (seperate but equal). They declared that segregated schools are unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till - (video): https://youtu.be/FqW4WkPxJ5Y
Emmett Till was a young black man, age 14, that was beaten and killed by 2 white man. He had flirted with a white female and was killed 2 days later for it. His mother insisted on an open casket so that people could see what happened to him. Many controversy was made over the court decision, because it was ran by an all white, male jury, and it only took about an hour to come up with a decision, which was not guilty, for the two white men. His murder fired the emerging Civil Rights Movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was caused by a woman named, Rosa Parks. She was on a bus and refused to give her seat to a white man and got arrested. Her arrest is what spraked a boycott of buses. -
Little Rock Nine
https://youtu.be/oodolEmUg2g
These were a group of nine black students who were admitted and attended Little Rock Central High School the first year it was integrated. Initially, they were prevented from attending the segregated school. The governor stopped them from attending by sending a state trooper. When the president heard about this, he then sent a national guard to properly exhort them into the school. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was constructed on August 13, 1961. It was built by East Germany to divide East and West Berlin. This caused a crisis between U.S. -Soviet bloc relations, and came to symbolize as the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a tense, 13 day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union concerning missiles being shot to Cuba. President John F. Kennedy at the time, had to choose between two options: either shoot down Cuba with all the missiles or do a blockade around Cuba. He chose the option of the blockade, thinking it would be a much safer decision and to help prevent another war from happening if we were to attack Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy Assasinated
https://youtu.be/rEVfKKjODBg
This was a date never forgotten by those who loved John F. Kennedy. He died at the age of 46, from being shot in the head while inside of a motorcade with his wife through downtown Dallas, Texas. When fall came, after his death, his political advisors were preparing for the next presidential campaign. The person who shot President Kennedy was Lee Oswald. -
Civil Rights Act in the U.S.
This was a civil rights legislation in the U.S. that outlawed discrimmination, based on sex, color, religion, etc. The Civil Rights Act ended unequal application of voters and segregation in schools. Initially, this was an uneasy progress, but as the years went on it s power grew stronger.
