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AMERICAN HISTORY III

VY_32_INOVACE_15-19. AMERICAN HISTORY III. Great Depression WWII Wars and terrorism. Beginning of the 20 th century. Industrial growth : 1908 Henry Ford automobile Rockefeller `s Oil Comp. 20th cent. Word`s leading country ( WWI -1917, post war prosperity)

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AMERICAN HISTORY III

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  1. VY_32_INOVACE_15-19 AMERICAN HISTORY III Great Depression WWII Wars andterrorism

  2. Beginning of the 20th century • Industrial growth: 1908 Henry Ford automobile • Rockefeller`s Oil Comp. • 20th cent. Word`s leading country ( WWI -1917, post war prosperity) • 1929 – Great Depression – stock market crash, unemployment, povertyF.D. Roosevelt ‘New Deal’ 1932 – measures to help from crisis

  3. F. D. Roosevelt president: 1933 – 1945 • - culture/music, dance, film – Chaplin, silent, colour, westerns, film musicals • - architecture– skyscrapers/functionalism, constructivism • - science – mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, medicine – nuclear reactor, plastics, , insulin, penicillin, polarograph…. • Diplomacy with the Soviet Union (Roosev., Churchill, Stalin – OSN) • 1941 Roosevelt`s plan to help Eur. countries with material to fight against fascists

  4. Gross Domestic Product 1929 - 1941 Autor: U.S. Department ofCommerce, Název: Gdp29-41.svg Zdroj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gdp29-41.svg

  5. WWII • 7th December 1941 – Pearl Harbor – destruction of Amer. aircrafts and fleet • 8th Dec. – war on Japan • Africa: gen. Montgomery – tank battles at El –Alamein Egypt • gen. Eisenhower – Morocco, Algeria, second front opened 1944 • D –Day 6/6/1944 in Normandy • Operation Overlord /2mil. soldiers, 6 000 warships, 10 000 planes/ • war in Asia ag. Japan – 1942-43 Guadalcanal in Pacific, Jap. lost  • 1945 - Yalta Conference, afterwar zones in Germany • president TRUMAN • 6/8/1945 Hiroshima , Nagasaki • 2/9/1945……end of WWII----USA first in the world, technical and financial development

  6. Operation Overlord Autor: neznámý, Název: ApproachingOmaha.jpg Zdroj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Approaching_Omaha.jpg

  7. 50`s • Marshal Plan 1947- recovering, reconstruction / 18 Eur. countries/   • Truman Doctrine - help to anti- socialist countries, proclamation of cold war with Sov. Union 1947-1953  • 1950 – 53 Korean War - communistic north/ SSSR, China/ versus democratic south /USA/, OSN, China interference • 1952 pres. Eisenhower – against Korean War, corruption, high taxes, communism but Mc Carthism (Mc Carthy anticommunist, senator)  • from 1953 until 1989 worries about nuclear war USA vs. S. Union  • 1956- 1959Caribean Crisis – Cuba (F. Castro – communism, place for Soviet nuclear forces, Kennedy and Chrustchov`s treaty)

  8. Civil Rights`Movements, Vietnam • 1959 Alaska, Hawai • 1960 J.F. Kennedy( dem., reduce the unemployment, support production, equal rights to everyone, cooperation with Europe and S. Union • 22/11/1963 assassinated in Dallas • 1960`s American fight against racism • 1963 Civil rights for all Americans, banning racial segregation, black clergyman M.L. King / assasinated in 1968, Hippies • 1961 – 1973/75 Vietnam War – end p. Nixon, 1969- landing on Moon • 1972 Watergate Affair, pres. Nixon

  9. Woodstock Festival and Hippies Autor: captainaquariuzzz, Název: Woodstock69.jpg Zdroj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woodstock69.jpg

  10. Americans on the Moon Autor: NASA, Název: Aldrin Apollo 11.jpg Zdroj: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:Aldrin_Apollo_11.jpg

  11. American policy after 1970 •  1972 Watergate Affair, pres. Nixon - resigned • 1983 Pershing rockets in Europe ---Russia attacked Afganistan • Ronald Reagan 1981– 1988 economical recovery  • George Bush senior …war in Iraq 1988 -93 • Bill Clinton • G. Bush junior • Barack Obama

  12. Barack Obama Ronald Reagan Autor: neznámý, Název: OfficialPortraitof President Reagan 1981.jpg Zdroj: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg Autor: Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, USN, Název: BarackObamaInaugurationOath.jpg Zdroj: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:Barack_Obama_Inauguration_Oath.jpg

  13. Thank you for your attention. Autor DUM: Mgr. Darina Sikorová

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