us history: becoming a world power

Spanish-American War, WWI, Between Wars, and WWII

BECOMING A WORLD POWER

Age of Imperialism

Raw Materials

New Markets

Spread

Religion/Culture

Competition

Spanish-American War: Causes

Yellow journalism inspired “war fever”

Events

Spanish American War

Effects

Above: Political cartoon of Roosevelt

Top Right: TR and the Rough Riders

Right: Buffalo Soldiers

“Ten thousand miles from tip to tip”

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Riders, John Pershing, 9th and 10th Cavalries?

The “isms”

The Great War BeginsAlliances and Course

of the War

Nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and industrialism

caused the war

US Enters the War

Road to Entry

Murder on the

High Seas

Zimmerman

Telegram

Above: Sinking of the LusitaniaLeft: Translation of the Zimmerman Telegram

US Enters the War: Americans in Battle

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Q2. Why did the Americans join WWI?

Treaty of Versailles

The Failed PeaceIsolation vs. Intervention

Above: Germany takes total blame for

World War I

Right: Should the US isolate or intervene?

Some New Amendments

Prohibition

Women’s Suffrage

The 18th and 19th Amendments affect the culture of the Roaring 1920s

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Causes

The Great Depression

Effects

The stock market crashed because

of overproduction,

over-speculation, and over -borrowing

An unending cycle of shame

The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl

World Leaders Come to Power

The Great Depression

FDR’s New Deal

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US Sticks with

Isolationism

Hitler Begins

Expansion

WWII Begins

1936: Rhineland

1938: Austria

1938: Sudetenland

1939: Poland

1940: Denmark

1940: Netherlands

1940: Belgium

1940: France

WWII

US Moves

Towards War

December 7, 1941 – “A date which will live in infamy”

Changes in the Home front

Americans in Wartime

Japanese Internment

Right: WWII propaganda poster for rationing

Left: Rosie the Riveter propaganda poster

Below: More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were put

into camps

A Two Front War

War in the

Atlantic

Hitler went back on a non-aggression treaty with Stalin and attacked Stalingrad in the Soviet Union

A TWO FRONT WARBattle in the Atlantic

Above: Battle at Kursk in the Soviet Union

Left: D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, France

Right: Battle of the Bulge on the border of Germany and Belgium

FDR runs for a 4th term

A Two Front WarAtrocities of the Holocaust

Vice-President Truman (left) and President FDR (right)

Prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany

A Two Front War

Battle in the

Pacific

Atomic Bombs

The Decision that Changed History

The Surrender of Japan

The city of Hiroshima after the bomb blast

Celebration in Times Square, NYC on V-J

Day

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