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Great Depression
World War1
World War 2
Pearl Harbor
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When did the Great Depression happen?

1930's

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  • What event lead to the start of WW1? 
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry is assassinated by a Serbian spy
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  • What event lead to WW2?

Germany invaded Poland

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What was Pearl Harbor?

A navel base in Hawaii

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  • What event made Japan surrender and end the war in the Pacific?
  • The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  • Who were the presidents during the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

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  • What event lead the United States to join the war?
  • German submarine shot a torpedo and sank the British passenger ship, Lusitania.
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  • Three days after Germany’s attack on Poland who declared war on Germany?

France and the England

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  • Who attacked Pearl Harbor?

Japan

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What day is known as V-E Day?

  • V-E Day means Victory in Europe Day. It was May 8, 1945, when Germany surrendered.
300
  • What is a “Shanty Town”? 
  • A small makeshift settlement or slum typically found on the edges of cities where people live in poorly constructed temporary homes.
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  • Who were the Allied Powers?

England, France, Russia, Italy, U.S.A. Serbia

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  • When did WW2 start?

September 3, 1939

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Why did they attack the U.S. and why did they attack Pearl Harbor?

  • Japan wanted to stop the U.S. Navy from stopping their plans in Asia by destroying the Pacific Fleet.
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  • What happened to Germany after the war ended?
  • Germany was divided into four parts controlled by the U.S., the U.K., France, and the Soviet Union.
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  • What factors led to the Great Depression?
  • The crash of the stock market, over farming, drought, bank failures
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  • Who were the Central Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungry, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire.

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  • When did World War II end?

1945

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  • What happened after the attack?

The U.S. joined WW2

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  • Name four new countries that formed after WW1?

Poland, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungry, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania,

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What event helped the United States overcome the Great Depression?

WW2

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  • What treaty did Germany sign at the end of WW1?
  • Treaty of Versailles
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  • Who were the main countries that won World War II?
  • The United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and other Allied countries.
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  • What happened during the attack?
  • Japanese airplanes surprised Americans by dropping bombs on the ships and buildings at the base.
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  • What did the treaty of Versailles say Germany had to do?
  •  Pay back 33 billions is reparations. (pay for the war)
  • Give up land
  • Disarm their army and destroy their weapons
  • Change their government