1918-1941

[] Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Henry Ford Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Charles Lindbergh Langston Hughes Nevil Chamberlin Winston Churchill
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WWII great Depression Harlem Renissance Prohibition FDRs New deal Social Security Act Dust Bowl Neutrality Acts Selective Service Act Pearl Harbor
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 * Franklin D. Roosevelt(Michaela)**
 * Thirty-second president
 * He led the US during WWII
 * He was the only president elected for more than two terms
 * Created the New Deal which brought the US out of the Great Depression


 * Winston Churchill(Michaela)**


 * He led the United Kingdom during WWII
 * He became a conservative member of parliament in the 1900s
 * He received the honorary citizenship of the United States

Henry Ford (Robert McCullough)
 * Created the Model T the first car that the common man could afford
 * Also created the motorized assembly line to make production faster and cheaper
 * He helped his workers by instituting the $5 a day pay rate which was double what other car companies paid their workers

Langston Hughes (Robert McCullough)
 * One of the first blacks to cross the color barrier and to secure his living through his writing and poems
 * Helped fuel the fire in the civil right movement
 * Played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance

Charles Lindbergh (Mackenzie Schmidt) 
 * American Aviator
 * Made first solo **nonstop** flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927
 * Became a “hero” in the aviation field
 * Invented an “Artificial heart” between 1931-1935
 * Opposed voluntary American entry to WWII

Calvin Coolidge (Mackenzie Schmidt)
 * 30th president
 * gained national attention by calling out the state guard during the Boston Police Strike  in 1919
 * Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration
 * Helped to promote the growth of radio and aviation industry
 * Restored diplomatic relations with Mexico

Adolf Hitler (Tori)
 * Applied to Viennese Academy of Fine Arts but was rejected
 * Fought in WWI
 * Founder of Nazi Party
 * Dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945
 * He invaded Poland which lead to WWII
 * He murdered 11 million people mostly Jews in what was known as the Holocaust
 * Committed suicide

Neville Chamberlain (Tori)
 * Prime Minister of Britain
 * “nonintervention” policy about joining the war
 * Gave into Hitler’s demands to avoid war (appeasement)
 * Lead Britain into WWII to defend Poland

Great Depression (Robert McCullough)
 * Events:**
 * Was a huge crisis not only for America but most of the European Nations as well
 * By 1932 one in four people were unemployed
 * FDR’s Alphabet Soup was created to help counter the Great Depression
 * The government created laws and regulations to help prevent this from happening again
 * Was one of the causes of WWII

Prohibition (Robert McCullough)
 * Increased organized crime and bred gangsters such as Al-Capone
 * Was the only constitutional amendment to ever be repealed
 * Was ended by the twenty-first amendment when FDR entered office

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Newl Deal (Mackenzie Schmidt) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">A set of governmental programs and policies by Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">They attempted to alleviate the governmental stresses on the American people during the Great Depression
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Huge change from Herbert Hoover's laissez faire ideas and policies
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">3 R’s
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tried to provide direct **relief**, **recover** the economy and **reform** the economic system to help prevent anything like the Great depression in the future.
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Implemented many programs like the TVA, AAA, FDIC and more.

Social Security Act 1935 (Tori)
 * Depression caused Americans to worry about where there income would come from when they were not able to work
 * This act was the solution
 * Part of the New Deal
 * Started Social Security System
 * Reduced Americans fears about money
 * Provided benefits to retirees

WWII 1939-1945 (Tori)
 * Treaty of Versailles, the rise of fascist power, Chamberlains appeasement led up to the war
 * After Germany annexed Austria and invaded Poland the war broke out
 * War included all of the world powers
 * Two alliances formed, Allies and Axis
 * “total war”
 * Holocaust and nuclear weapons allowed it to be the deadliest war in history

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Pearl Harbor (Mackenzie Schmidt)




 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">December 7, 1941
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Triggered almost immediate American entry to WWII
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">During WWII, Japan was mainly focused on attempting to control islands
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Two years into the war, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor naval base in American Hawaiian territory
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">An attempt to distract America's naval fleet from Japan's plans of attacking European countries,
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Early in the morning Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor using fighter, bombers and torpedo planes.
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 110%;">Four US battleships, three cruisers and three destroyers were sunk in the attack with over 2,400 American deaths


 * Neutrality Acts of 1930 (Michaela)**


 * These were laws passed by the United States Congress that declared America’s neutrality against foreign affairs
 * This among the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia eventually let to World War II
 * The acts were repealed in 1941 when German submarines attacked US vessels and when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor


 * Selective Service Acts of 1940(Michaela)**


 * Also known as the Burke-Wasdworth Act
 * It was the first peacetime conscription in the United States
 * It required men between the ages of 21 to 35 to register with local draft boards
 * When WWII came, men ages of 18-45 were made liable for military service