It is a description of many events in American history during the XX century

1. AMERICA AND
TWO WORLD
WARS

2.  Communism ( URSS)  Capitalism ( USA)

3. WORLD WAR I
 USA Joined the
war in 1917
 German attacks
 German plot
WOODROW WILSON

4. WORLD WAR I

5. ROARING TWENTIES
This period began with
some changes in the
American culture.
In 1920 the dry law
(liqueur was banned)
was published and it
was the origin of
mafias and gansters

6. FACTS THAT MADE AMERICA
STRONGER
 Free trade
 European countries
owed money

7.  Industrial Rise
 Credits
 Ford cars
 Patrol
 Roads

8. AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
 Land of Progress,
Welfare and
prosperity
 Immigrants
 Wall street

9. RED SCARE
 Bolshevik revolution
 Communism
 KKK
 Restricted
immmigration

10. RADIO INFLUENCE
 Radio and magazines began to
present standardized behavior
models.
 Jazz

11.  Roaring Finished
in 1929 There
was the ‘‘Great
Depression’’ and
‘‘wall street
crash’’
1929

12. NEW DEAL 1933
 Reformed laws
 Economic Recovery: The New
Deal stabilized the banks and
cleaned up the financial mess
left over from the Stock Market
crash of 1929.
 It helped the country to
recover from economic
disaster and put millions of
desperate people back to
work.
 Franklin D Roosevelt
"I pledge you, I pledge myself,
a new deal for the American
people."

13. WORLD WAR II
 Neutral acts
 USA joined the war on December 7 th, 1941 when
Japan attacked the naval base Pearl Harbor in
Hawai

14. WORLD WAR II

15. WORKING WOMEN
 Women became in
workers and were
hired as electricians,
welders and riveters in
defense plants.

16. D-DAY
 June 6th 1944
 Operation overlord
 Allies and soviets
victory

17.  The American navy
obtained several
victories against the
Japanese.
In Europe the Germans
were slowly pushed back
on all sides before
surrendering on may 8th
1945

18. END OF THE WAR
 Although german was defeated, USA was losing the
war in the pacific against Japan
 The president Harry Truman authorized the atomic
bombing in two cities Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
 It made them surrender

19. POST WAR- COLD WAR 1947-1991
 Marshall plan
 War of ideologies
 Spying war
 Revolutions period
 Not direct attacks
form the sides

20. COLD WAR

21. EFFECTS
 Acquisition of big arsenals
 The origin of NATO
 The origin of many armed conflicts
 End of soviet union

22. POST WAR 1947
 MARSHALL PLAN: It was an economical
aid/loan for European Reconstruction
 TRUMAN DOCTRINE: It was a policy that
supported the people opressed by communist
 NATO: Alliance of Militar powers 1949

23. SPYING WAR AND INDIRECT ATTACKS
 Soviets wanted to
expand the
communism and
Americans felt
uncomforable
 American got atomic
weapons, Soviets did
not like it and they also
armed

24. REVOLUTION PERIOD
 1949 Chinese
Revolution
 1950 Korean War
 1956 Hungarian
Revolution
 1959 Cuban
Revolution
 1950- 75 Vietnam
war

25. DECLINE OF SOVIET UNION
 PERESTROIKA:
Economical structures
reform
 GLASNOT: The free
media broadcasting
 Mihail Gorbachov