The great depression + WW2

Black tuesday

1929: 16 mil stocks sold in 1 day

After stock market crashes

over 5000 banks collapsed and people’s savings were wiped out

Hawley smoot tariff

reduce flow of goods by imposing tariffs

Hawley smoot tariff led to

retaliatory tariffs and worsen the depression

Hoovervilles

Shantytowns sprang up. people lost everything and blamed it on the president

Election 1932

important shift in black voting from republican to democrat

Glass-steagall act

created FDIC and ends epidemic of bank failures

The ‘New deal’

FDR creating jobs to fix economy

Social security actct

old people pensions and disability insurance

WW2

1914 - 1970s

Fascist dictator in spain

Francisco Franco

October 1936

Hitler and Mussolini signed Rome-Berlin axis -alliance

March 1936

Hitler sent troops into the rhineland

Hitler invaded _ and united it with Germany

austria

September 1938

Hitler demanded the germans in Sudetenland to join germany

Policy of appeasement

granting concessions to maintain peace

Chamberlain goes with -

policy of appeasement

Munich Conference

September 29, 1938

Hitler, Mussolini, and Daladier meet

Hitler can have - if he stops taking land

chamberlin

Hitler sends troops into _ and takes over

czechoslovaki

Hitler and Stalin sign

Nazi-soviet nonaggression pact

if nazi wins they split poland

September 1, 1939

Hitler invades Poland, starts WW2

Blitzkrieg

lighting war - take enemy by surprise

Luftwaffe

German air force - very good 5:1

April 1940

Hitler invaded and conquered Denmark + Norway

Who failed to stop these attacks

England

Who stepped down as prime minster

Neville Chamberlain

Who becomes new prime minster

Winston Churchill

June 1940

Hitler invades France

Battle of Britain

Air Force vs Air Force - 5:1

1 yr in, Germany crushes England, but no surrender

Neutrality Acts

1937
us banned arms, shipments, loans, and credit to warring nations

Cash and Carry policy

great Britain could trade cash for supplies from us

lend-lease policy

lend war equipment to any country

June 22, 1941

Hitler broke the non-aggression pact and invaded the Soviet union

1914-1944

the holocaust

6 mil Jews were massed murdered

Warsaw, Poland

largest ghetto

The final solution

Nazi code term

extermination of all European Jews

The battle of Stalingrad

turning point of the war

Hitler refused to let his troops leave

soviet troops + harsh winters caused Nazi to lose

Allied forces led by

Dwight D. Eisenhower