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The Great Depression


In the 1920's people were happy, and spending money. With the overproduction and people stop buying products and buy stocks, the market went under and started the Depression.

The 1st New deal started in 1933 and ended on 34. It was suppose to help the economy out only, not helping the people yet. The major thing they wanted to do was rebuild the banks.


Second New deal helped the middle class and farmers, by making govt construction jobs and giving people witout jobs construction jobs funded by the govt. FSA helped farmers.


D-Day


Happened in June 6, 1944 was an invasion of German occupied Normady FRance on the Beaches.The U.S> had over 175,000 men along with alot of allies. Eventually the beach invasion worked and we regained France.


Bombings


Nagasauki and Hiroshima had nuclear bombs explode over them


African FRont- DEsert Warfare that was conducted to stop Germans invading Aliied Territory.


Rommel-German Genereal -Gerorge Patton- US General


Pacific Front- Started with the Bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Basically was Island hopping both for Japs and US, tryng to get strategic bases on Islands.


Why US won the War- We had more supplies, more men most of the time, hard working labor force giving us lots of machenery such as tanks and guns, US citezens approved of the war, Germans eventually hated Hitler because of debt and murder of Jews.


Causes and effects of the Cold War-


.Nato- was countries that tried to keep world peace

TRuman Docterane- Helped stop communism in Turkey and Greece

Soviets tried to contol lots of countries, we tried to stop them from taking land from other countries

Nato- nations that tried to keep world peace

the red scare- mccarthyism- was the people that tried to promote communism in the US

1945- 1970 was the nuclear arms race

The red scare- was the promotion of communism in the US

Bay of Pigs, was the CIA operation with anti castreo cubans to kill Castero

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