Good Times and Bad1920’s-1940’s
Roaring 20’s
Great 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’s
Entertainment First commercial radio station broadcast
1920First Sound Movie 1927
(“The Jazz Singer” by Warner Brothers)Women’s Right to Vote
(19th Amendment)Babe Ruth hit 60th home run 1920
The Great DepressionStock Market Crash 1929
Business Failures
Unemployment
Bread lines
Dust Bowls
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
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
Flying Tigers
American 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, France
5 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 ships
Cleared France of German troops
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 80,000
Nagasaki- August 9, 1945
Killed about 40,000
Japan surrendered August 14, 1945
WWII Ends September 2, 1945
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)