Teddy Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Dwight Eisinhower

John F. Kennedy

Linden B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

First Airplane ( Wright Brothers)

Urbanization- People moved to cities

World War 1 1914-1918

Causes: Imperialism, Militarism, rival Alliances

Allies: England, France (Russia-dropped out) United States joins(1917)

Central Powers: Germany AustriaHungry Turkey

Effects: 30 Milliion die, Map of Europe and World redrawn New Countries created, Yugoslavia, Iraq; Germany punished loses money and land. USA isolates from rest of world.

Russia revolution becomes Communist

Communism Government owns all businesses and has complete control of life in the country.

1920 jazz age Prohibition & Gangsters

Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington

Stockmarket Crash- set off depression in 1929.

Great Depression- 1929-1940; banks closed, Factories closed, farms closed, massive unemployment and poverty.

New Deal- FDR plans to get U.S. out of depression. (TVA WPA)

WW11- caused by rise of Fascists

Harsh WW11 peace Treaty

German, Italy, and Japan formed Axis.

Axis Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo Allies Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

WW11 Germans conquer most of Europe + ½ of Russia.

Japanese Attack Pearl harbor December 7, 1941.

Turning point – Battle of midway 1942 U.S. Begins to win war in Pacific.

At Stalingrad, Russians begin to push Germans back .

American drop Atomic Bomb on Japan (August 1945)Hiroshima + Nagasaki ending WW11.

Cold War- Conflict between U.S. and Russia.

Civil Rights Movement.- Ralph Abernathy 1942 proposes Strike and March on Washington.

Brown V Board OF Education-1954 and Thurgood Marshall is the Key Lawyer

Montgomery Alabama

Rosa Parks-

Martin Luther King Jr.-

Little Rock – Integration in public Schools by U.S. Soldiers in Little Rock HS

Poll taxes abolished by 1965 Voting Rights Act

Discrimination outlawed by 1964 Civil Rights Act

Korean War 1950-1953

Vietnam 1965-1973(1975)