UNIT 2: MODERN AMERICA 1815-1945

“The ORDEAL of TOTAL WAR”

BALANCE of POWER

SARAJEVO (1914)

MUSTARD & CHLORINE (1915

SOMME (1916)

LUSITANIA (1915)

GREAT MIGRATIONS (1915)

ELECTION of 1916

CREEL COMMITTEE (1917)

ESPIONAGE ACT (1917)
SEDITION/SABOTAGE ACTS (1918)

HENRY FORD & HENRI PETAIN

ARTICLE X

RED SUMMER OF 1919

ELECTION of 1920

“CONSUMER CULTURE”

1920 CENSUS

PURCHASING POWER

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

“$5 DAY”

NEW MIDDLE CLASS

ADVERTISING the
AMERICAN DREAM

NEW WOMAN

CHAIN STORES

“ON TIME”

NEW NEGRO

“RURAL COUNTERATTACK”

RED SUMMER of 1919

“RETURN TO NORMALCY”

IMMIGRATION ACTS (1921/1924)

The FUNDAMENTALS (1911)

SCOPES (1925)

KU KLUX KLAN

MOSES “FLEETWOOD” WALKER

PLESSY v. FERGUSON (1896)

“JIM CROW”

RICHARD WRIGHT

AL JOLSON

The DYER BILL

“CRASH & DEPRESSION”

NEW LAISSEZ FAIRE

DAWES ACT (1922)

“EASY MONEY”

GREAT BULL MARKET

BLACK TUESDAY

“SICK” INDUSTRIES

HAWLEY-SMOOT TARIFF (1930)

SOUP KITCHENS, BREAD LINES,
& HOOVERVILLES

The RFC (1932)

BONUS ARMY (1932)

ELEC. of 1932

“FDR and the NEW DEALERS”

ELEC. of 1932

EBA 1ST
FERA & CCC }100
NRA & AAA Days

DUST BOWL

ANGRY VOICES

SSI 2ND
WAGNER ACT (NLRA) }100
WPA DAYS

ELEC. of 1936

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“MAKING DO”

ROOSEVELT RECESSION

“CIVILIANS at War”

GOOD NEIGHBOR

NYE COMMITTEE (1935)

GREAT TERROR

HAKUICHU

NANJING (1937)

MUNICH (1938)

HUAC (1938)

7 DEC. 1941

LARD, RUBBER, & STAMPS

“ROSIE the RIVETER”

MANZANAR

FINAL SOLUTION

“The ATOMIC AGE”

MIDWAY (1942)

IWO JIMA & OKINAWA (1945)

LEO SZILARD & NEILS BOHR

ALBERT EINSTEIN & FDR

MANHATTAN ENGINEERING DIST.

ENRICO FERMI

The SCIENTIST & the GENERAL

POTSDAM (8-16 JULY 1945)

TRINITY (15 JULY 1945)

STIMPSON & TRUMAN

HIROSHIMA (6 AUG. 1945)

NAGASAKI (9 AUG 1945)

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