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Staingrad
Considered a turning point of the European Theater of the war, the Soviets beat the Germans after a long siege of Stalingrad but at no small cost, with over 1.5 million casualties. After this surrender, the Soviets will push the Germans out of the USSR. -
Life in the trenches
Life in the trenches was terrible there was this thing called trench foot and it rotted the feet of the solders. -
Casuse of WW!
Assassination of Austra Hungary duke. -
Battle of the Marne
German invasion France halted at the Marne river and nobody won the fight, stalemate -
Shell shock
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New Wepons
There was a lot of new weapons like they created a toxic gas that could be thrown and kill with a painful death. Also, they had made tanks which were a big improvement to warfare. -
Imperialism
Imperialism is when a Country takes over new land. Britain and France increased their land by a lot during the war. -
Bootlegger
One who produces or distributes alcohol illegally. -
Flappers
Young women that did things out of ordinary like wearing short dresses and wore lots of makeup. -
Red
A radical, anarchist, or communist. -
Urbanization
The growth of cites and the suburbs surrounding them. -
Xenophobia
Dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries. -
Scope Trails
Thomas Scopes taught the theory of evolutions and got in trouble for it. -
Steel strike
This strike lasted 4 months with nothing to show for in the end. -
Prohibition
This was an attempt to ban alcohol in the United States. -
Red scare
Where communist and anarchist were on the rise and everyone was afraid of them -
Tea pot Dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
Duke Ellington
A great Jazz player in the 1900s -
Jazz age
In the 1920s is when the life of Jazz was blooming especially since there were radios to listen to them. -
New immigration
New immigration made it where oversea foreigners couldn't come to America. -
19th amendment
Women gain the right to vote for President. -
Palmer Raids
A series of violent and abusive law-enforcement raids directed at leftist radicals and anarchists. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, the 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. -
laissez faire
A plan made by Hoover that stopped the Depression a little but ti didn't do much -
Herbert Hoover
president during the great depression and who everyone blamed for the great depression. -
Huey long
Huey long A.K.A the kingfish was a speaker that wanted to become a great leader just like Hitler. -
Great Depression
A period in 1930 where America was in a depression where there were no jobs and no money. -
Hoover blankets
Blankets that were made out of newspaper and other garbage. -
Hoovervilles
Hoovervilles where people made there house with garbage and things from there old homes. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was the president who fixed all of Hoover's mistakes and pulled America out of the great depression. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. -
New deal
The New Deal was a series of programs public work projects, financial reform and regulations made by Franklin D. Rosevelt -
Black Thursday
The start of the great depression where everyone's power went out the cause is that the stock market crashed. -
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WW2
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Battle of Britain
an aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out an extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance -
Pearl harbor
The Attacks on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the imperial Japanese. -
Barbarossa
Hitler wants to invade and take Barbarossa -
Bataan death march
April 1942 American and Filipino soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so many of the prisoners died in route. -
D-Day
The day on which an important operation is to begin or a change to take effect. -
Battle of midway
A naval battle that was the turning point in the Pacific; the American fleet (aircraft carriers) are able to stop the Japanese advance across the Pacific -
Battle of the Bulge
World War II battle in December 1944 between Germany and Allied troops that was the last German offensive in the West. -
Island hopping
Moving from war to war on a different island to island -
Harry S. Truman
The 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953. He was also the president in office when we won the first world war. -
Hiroshima
City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
