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The beginning of the century
End of 19th,beginning of 20th.
Era with rapid economic growth and industrialization.
Wages higher in the USA than in Europe.
The USA did not wanted to get involved in WWI -
The 1920s
The roaring Twentiets.
Booming dacade, brought the automobile,telephone,electricity, the motion picture and more. The happy times camer to a sudden stop with the stock marker crash on the wall street in 1929. -
the 1930s
stockmarked crash in 1929 led to the Great Depression.
1930s was a deacade of povery and struggle and massive unemployment.WWII broke out in Europe -
the 1940s
USA decided not involved in WWII.
Pearl Harbour was attaceked by the japanise on Desember 7 1941, the USA entered the war on the side of the Allies.Europe had to be rebuilt. USA was intact because no batles had teken place on the ASmerican Mainland -
1950s
Decade good for USA.
Decade of growth in all areas:economic,politcal,military and in population. Houses in 1950s had refrigerators,television,sets and hoovers. Cars were becoming common,american goods vere popular. The country one of the world's two also superpowersboth economically and politically. Started also the cold war. influenced also thw world culturually. Rokk and roll music and teenage idols -
1960s
Ware and Change
Era of the civil rights movement,space race, the kennedys,the cold war,the vietnam war andhippies.Vietnam war was traumatic for Americans. Thousands of men and woman diead in a war. The Vietnam war, the first that people protested against, they lost(first time).In 1962 Usa was in brink of war with the soviet union. In 1969 astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. -
1970s
Civil rights for minorities, womensrights and the end of vietnsm war.Enviromental issues become important. Recession in the steel industrycreated problems. -
1990s
War in middle east called Operation Desert Storm.
Protect Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Suplies of Oil tothe USA.
Most significant changes technologically were the internet and the PC. End of the decade , reality TV bacame a new popular genre. -
the 21st centry
1999 new Years Eve most of the western world was worried: would there be a worldwide computer crash? wourld our life be the same? it did not happend. but evnts in 2001 did happend, and change the world.September 11,2001 terror stuck on US soil and 3000 died. four planes were hijacked.two crashed into the Twin Towers on manhatten,one hit the Pentagon, fourth plane missed its target and crached.9/11 will always be remembered as the day that changed the world and the begginging of the global world -
1980s
Ronald Reagan and conserative in USA
Cold war with the soviet union.
Breling wall, symbole of the Iron Curtain.
1989 the berlin wall came dow, and the cold war came to an end.
80s remembered as the decade of MTV and the music video and pop icons