The document provides an overview of key events in the rise of the United States as a world power from the Spanish-American War through World War II. It discusses factors that drove imperialism in the late 19th century, key events and outcomes of the Spanish-American War, reasons for US entry into World War I, political and social changes during the interwar period, causes and impacts of the Great Depression, US isolationism giving way to involvement in World War II, and how the American home front changed during WWII. The document uses images to illustrate important people, battles, documents, and other elements from this transformative period in US history.

1. BECOMING A WORLD POWER
Spanish-American War, WWI, Between Wars, and WWII

2. Age of
Imperialism
Raw Materials
New Markets
Spread
Religion/Culture
Competition

3. Spanish-American War: Causes
Yellow journalism
inspired “war fever”

4. Spanish American War
Events Effects
Above: Political
cartoon of Roosevelt
Top Right: TR and “Ten thousand miles from tip to tip”
the Rough Riders
Right: Buffalo
Soldiers

5. Q1. What are the following people/groups remembered for
at it relates to the Spanish-American War: Theodore
Roosevelt, Rough Riders, John Pershing, 9th and 10th
Cavalries?
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6. The Great War Begins
Alliances and Course
The “isms”
of the War
Nationalism, imperialism, militarism,
and industrialism caused the war

7. US Enters the War
Road to Entry
Murder on the High
Seas
Zimmerman
Telegram
Above: Sinking of the Lusitania
Left: Translation of the Zimmerman Telegram

8. US Enters the War: Americans in Battle

9. Q2. Why did the Americans join WWI?
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10. The Failed Peace
Treaty of Versailles Isolation vs. Intervention
Above: Germany takes total blame for
World War I
Right: Should the US isolate or
intervene?

11. Some New
Amendments
Prohibition
Women’s Suffrage
The 18th and 19th Amendments affect the culture of the
Roaring 1920s

12. Q3. What were the 18th and 19th Amendments?
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13. The Great Depression
Causes Effects
An
unending
cycle of
shame
The stock market
crashed because of
overproduction, over
-speculation, and
over -borrowing

14. The Great
Depression
The Dust Bowl

15. The Great Depression
World Leaders Come to
FDR’s New Deal
Power

16. Q4. What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression?
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17. WWII Begins
US Sticks with
Isolationism
Hitler Begins
Expansion
1936: Rhineland 1940: Denmark
1938: Austria 1940: Netherlands
1938: Sudetenland 1940: Belgium
1939: Poland 1940: France

18. WWII
US Moves Towards
War
December 7, 1941 – “A date which will live in infamy”

19. Americans in Wartime
Changes in the Home front Japanese Internment
Below: More than 110,000 Japanese
Americans were put into camps
Right: WWII
propaganda
poster for
rationing
Left: Rosie the Riveter propaganda poster

20. A Two Front War
War in the Atlantic
Hitler went back on a non-aggression treaty with
Stalin and attacked Stalingrad in the Soviet Union

21. A TWO FRONT WAR
Battle in the Atlantic
Above: Battle at Kursk in the Soviet Union
Left: D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, France
Right: Battle of the Bulge on the border of Germany and Belgium

22. A Two Front War
FDR runs for a 4th term Atrocities of the Holocaust
Vice-President Truman (left) Prisoners of Buchenwald
and President FDR (right) Concentration Camp in Germany

23. A Two Front War
Battle in the Pacific

24. The Decision that Changed History
Atomic Bombs The Surrender of Japan
The city of Hiroshima after Celebration in Times
the bomb blast Square, NYC on V-J Day

25. Q5. How did the American home front change during
WWII?
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26. Picture Citations
 Slide 2  Slide 8
 fresno.k12.ca.us  greatwar.ku.edu
 Slide 3  Slide 10
 americanwiki.pbworks.com  historyonthenet.com
 human-carbine.livejournal.com  voxrationis.org
 homeofheroes.com  Slide 11
 21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com  ohmidog.com
 Slide 4  theconservativetreehouse.com
 en.wikipedia.org  Slide 13
 ecommcode.com  mrjunko.weebly.com
 home.comcast.net  projectsmrj.pbworks.com
 Slide 6  en.wikipedia.org
 allahcentric.wordpress.com  magnumphotoagency.com
 fresno.k12.ca.us  Slide 14
 ranchiarchdiocese.org  spydersden.wordpress.com
 industrialism.com  english.illinois.edu
 blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu
 Slide 7
 lostinthemythsofhistory.blogspot.com
 archives.gov

27. Picture Citations contd. . .
 Slide 15  Slide 21
 en.wikipedia.org  northville.k12.mi.us
 prospectmagazine.co.uk  en.wikipedia.org
 uncyclopedia.wikia.com  history.howstuffworks.com
 telegraph.co.uk  Slide 22
 forums.comicbookresources.com  historyistheharvestofthepast.blogspot.co
 Slide 17 m
 ushmm.org  holocaust.about.com
 Slide 18  Slide 23
 history.navy.mil  en.wikipedia.org
 pdxretro.com  yamariecusiinotebook.wikispaces.com
 Slide 19  Slide 24
 learnnc.org  gwu.edu
 nps.gov  en.wikipedia.org
 lanternreview.com  history.navy.mil
 Slide 20
 spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
 history.ucsb.edu

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