Stock Market Crash

1. Stock Market Crash 51 Source: http://www.1americanatrail.com/images/STOCKCRASH6.gif Hardship on the American Family Source: http://newdeal.feri.org/nchs/images/mother.jpg Hoover’s Reaction to the Depression Source: http://www.npg.si.edu/img2/hall/big/bighoov.jpg Bonus Army Veterans protest in Washington Hoovervilles are seen in all major cities Stock Market Crashes A “run on the bank” President Hoover took much of the blame for the Depression Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in 1932 promising a New Deal The Depression put a great deal of stress on families President Herbert Hoover

2. FDR and the New Deal 52 Source: http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/firstln/955pres10.gif Alphabet Soup Begins Source: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/Pics/NRA%20poster/NRAposter.jpg Dust Bowl Source: http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/cimarron_ok.jpg Huey Long’s “Share Our Wealth” program attracted a lot of followers until his assassination FDR giving Americans a “Fireside Chat” CWA Road-building in S.F. CCC Recruitment poster Some people like Charles Coughlin wanted the government to do more to help people NRA sign in a business window showing their support PWA- Interior Dept Building in D.C. TVA Dam in Tennessee

3. Social Security Act 53 Source: http://visualhistory.freewebpages.org/Depression.html Works Progress Administration Source: http://www.hawaiilawyer.com/images/wpa.jpg Court Packing Controversy Source: http://newdeal.feri.org/court/024.htm Actor Orson Welles shocked many with his groups performance of the “War of the Worlds” Cartoon showing FDR’s best way to beat the Depression-Spending Eleanor Roosevelt played a much more vocal role as a First Lady The Wizard of OZ was released in 1939 FDR met resistance when he tried to make changes to the Supreme Court by adding more Justices Grant Wood’s Famous American Gothic was actually a WPA project Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs becomes the first animated feature in 1937 Some people thought the gov’t programs were restricting the nation too much.

4. Fascist Governments 54 Source: http://www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/hitler-mussolini.jpg Beginning of WW II Source: http://www.danshistory.com/ww2/poland.jpg Hitler Conquers Most of Europe Source: http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000168.jpg WW II had its beginnings with fascist leaders like Mussolini and Hitler The British were left to fight Hitler alone after France was defeated German rearmament began after Hitler became their leader in 1933 Weeping Frenchmen stunned by his nation’s defeat Japan attacks China in 1937 killing many civilians Early in WW II Hitler War Machine looked invincible Most people in the U.S. wanted to remain a neutral country Hitler in Paris as France surrenders

5. Discrimination against Jews 55 Source: http://www.destinationsf.com/assets/images/Jewishp10alt.gif Final Solution Source: http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/twoa.htm Concentration Camps Source: http://history.searchbeat.com/buchenwald-malnutrition.gif These children were used in experiments at Auschwitz U.S. Soldiers overlooking bodies on a train at Dachau Dead victims found too late at Buchenwald Nazi doctors experimented on Jewish prisoners The Nuremburg war crimes trials punished some officials for their part of the Holocaust Some of the Holocaust tragedy occurred in the USSR Huge piles of shoes left by Holocaust victims Men rescued from Buchenwald in 1945

6. United States Enters WW II 56 Source: http://history.acusd.edu/cdr2/WW2Pics3/90669.jpg Life on the Home Front Source: http://www.rosietheriveter.us/images/rosie_250.jpg Japanese Internment Source: http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/timeline.html Roosevelt and Churchill meet to form the Atlantic Charter “Rosie the Riveter” poster proclaiming American resolve Black soldiers serving in a segregated unit Part of the USS Shaw explodes at Pearl Harbor Actress Rita Hayworth shows her effort for the metal drive A Japanese American sign shows contempt for the internment A Rationing Board gives out rationing stamps to citizens American propaganda to increase the war bond drive

7. Allied Bombing Raids 57 Source: D-Day Invasion Source: http://www.curious.org.uk/our-place/opimage/d-day.jpg Germany Destroyed Source: http://www.multied.com/WW2/events/images/firebombingofdresden.gif U.S. troops and supplies cross the Rhine on pontoons into Germany U.S. troops in a landing craft about to hit the beaches at Normandy U.S. Paratroopers dropping into Holland in 1944 Boeing Aircraft factory showing U.S. production The remains of Dresden Germany after Allied fire bombing attacks Panorama of the beach-head at Normandy Americans also stormed beaches in Italy G.I.’s in Belgium at the end of 1944

8. U.S. Naval Power 58 Source: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/images/ww2_60.jpg Island Hopping Source: http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/a_people_at_war/images/image_iwo_jima.jpg Use of the Atomic Bomb Source: http://millercenter.virginia.edu/programs/apd/images/mushroom_cloud.jpg Harry Truman becomes the President after FDR’s death in 1945 Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima American flag raised over the island of Iwo Jima Large Guns of the USS Iowa U.S. POW’s on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines American Naval convoy in the Pacific near the end of the war. One of Doolittle’s planes take off on its bombing mission over Tokyo Mushroom cloud from the effects of a nuclear bomb