Good Times and Bad1920’s-1940’s

Roaring 20’sGreat Depression

World War II

Roaring 20’sInventions & Increased Technology

Inventions(vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, sewing machines,

toasters, & fans)Advance in use of electricity in homes

(General Electric-GE)Transportation

Invention of Automobile, Farm tractor, and planeFirst flight at Kitty Hawk, NC 1903

Roaring 20’s and 30’sEntertainment

First commercial radio station broadcast 1920

First Sound Movie 1927(“The Jazz Singer” by Warner Brothers)

Women’s Right to Vote(19th Amendment)

Babe Ruth hit 60th home run 1920

First Sound Movie

The Great DepressionStock Market Crash 1929

Business FailuresUnemployment

Bread linesDust Bowls

Dust Bowl Farmers

World War II BeginsGermany Invades Poland Unexpectedly

September 1, 1939 Adolph Hitler- Dictator of Germany

Introduced a new kind of warfare, called blitzkrieg, which means “lightning war”

Sets up Concentration Camps (Holocaust) Responsible for death of 7 million Jews

Luftwaffe- German Air ForceAxis Powers-

Germany, Italy, JapanAllied Powers-

Great Britain, Soviet Union, and United StatesR.A.F. (Britain’s Air Force)

A Nazi is a member of the German National Socialist Party

Hitler Invades Poland Video

Attack of Pearl HarborDec. 7, 1941

300 Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Kamikaze (Japanese suicide pilot) United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain,

and 23 other nations formed allies and entered WWII

Japanese-Americans relocated 1942

Pearl Harbor Video

Flying TigersAmerican Volunteer Group (A.V.G.) was a group

that was kept secret and its mission was to protect the Burma Road, which was known as China’s “lifeline”. The Members of the A.V.G.

were known as “Flying Tigers”

This group helped boost morale after Pearl Harbor by destroying at least 286 Japanese planes. They became part of the U.S. Army Air Corps

July of 1942.

D-DayJune 6, 1944

Battle of Normandy, France5 Beaches Code named

(Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword)Invasion force of 175,000 Allied troops ferried across English Channel in more

than 2,700 shipsCleared France of German troops

D-Day Video

V-E DayVictory in Europe

Victory in Europe May 7, 1945Russian troops reached Berlin, Germany and reduced the city to rubble in 11 days. Nazi dictator ( Adolf Hiltler) shot himself

And the city surrendered.May 8th is mow known as VE-Day, the day people celebrate the Allies’

victory in Europe.

The Atomic Bomb

U.S. & Allies dropped atomic bomb Hiroshima- August 6, 1945

Killed over 80,000Nagasaki- August 9, 1945

Killed about 40,000Japan surrendered August 14, 1945

WWII Ends September 2, 1945

Hiroshima Video

Nagasaki Video

Political Leaders in WWII“The Big Three”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) Winston Churchill (Great Britain)

Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)Other Political LeadersHarry S. Truman (U.S.)Adolf Hitler (Germany)Benito Mussolini (Italy)

Hideki Tojo (Japan)Chaing Kai-Shek (China)

“The Big Three”