UTAH IN THE MODERN AGE

WWII Fight between Axis powers: Germany,

Italy, Japan and the Allies: Britain, France, Russia and USA

A total war where normal citizens were consumed with supporting the war effort

What caused World War 2?

Which one is Hitler?

Japanese attack USA at Pearl Harbor

WWII

Topaz Concentration Camp in Central Utah Japanese American citizens were shipped

to Utah. Kept under guard Why? Trying to keep the Japanese

Americans from relaying secrets to the Japanese army.

Racism

topaz

Topaz

Topaz

Navajo Code Talkers

Navajo Code Talkers

Cold War

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production.

Cold War

Cold War

Germany occupied

Berlin Airlift

Berlin Candy BomberGail Halvorsen

Berlin Candy BomberOnkel Wackelflugal

Philo T. Farnsworth

Philo T. Farnsworth

Vietnam

Vietnam Protest

The Civil Rights Movement

Dr King visited Utah and gave a speech at the University of Utah

Civil Rights Movement No segregated schools in Utah Famous black singers had a hard time

finding hotels to stay in Civil Rights Act of 1964

Outlawed discrimination based on race

Utahns Put man on the Moon

Utahns Put man on the moon