1. Good Times and Bad
1920’s-1940’s
Roaring 20’s
Great Depression
World War II

2. Roaring 20’s
Inventions & Increased Technology
Inventions
(vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, sewing machines,
toasters, & fans)
Advance in use of electricity in homes
(General Electric-GE)
Transportation
Invention of Automobile, Farm tractor, and plane
First flight at Kitty Hawk, NC 1903

3. Roaring 20’s and 30’s
Entertainment
First commercial radio station broadcast
1920
First Sound Movie 1927
(“The Jazz Singer” by Warner Brothers)
Women’s Right to Vote
(19th
Amendment)
Babe Ruth hit 60th
home run 1920

4. First Sound Movie

5. The Great Depression
Stock Market Crash 1929
Business Failures
Unemployment
Bread lines
Dust Bowls

6. Dust Bowl Farmers

7. World War II Begins
Germany Invades Poland Unexpectedly
September 1, 1939
Adolph Hitler- Dictator of Germany
Introduced a new kind of warfare, called
blitzkrieg, which means “lightning war”
Sets up Concentration Camps (Holocaust)
Responsible for death of 7 million Jews
Luftwaffe- German Air Force
Axis Powers-
Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers-
Great Britain, Soviet Union, and United States
R.A.F. (Britain’s Air Force)
A Nazi is a member of the German National
Socialist Party

8. Hitler Invades Poland Video

9. Attack of Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941
300 Japanese planes bombed
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Kamikaze (Japanese suicide pilot)
United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain,
and 23 other nations formed allies and
entered WWII
Japanese-Americans relocated 1942

10. Pearl Harbor Video

11. Flying Tigers
American Volunteer Group (A.V.G.) was a group
that was kept secret and its mission was to
protect the Burma Road, which was known as
China’s “lifeline”. The Members of the A.V.G.
were known as
“Flying Tigers”
This group helped boost morale after Pearl Harbor
by destroying at least 286 Japanese planes.
They became part of the U.S. Army Air Corps
July of 1942.

12. D-Day
June 6, 1944
Battle of Normandy, France
5 Beaches Code named
(Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword)
Invasion force of 175,000 Allied troops
ferried across English Channel in more
than 2,700 ships
Cleared France of German troops

13. D-Day Video

14. V-E Day
Victory in Europe
Victory in Europe May 7, 1945
Russian troops reached Berlin, Germany
and reduced the city to rubble in 11 days.
Nazi dictator ( Adolf Hiltler) shot himself
And the city surrendered.
May 8th
is mow known as VE-Day,
the day people celebrate the Allies’
victory in Europe.

15. The Atomic Bomb
U.S. & Allies dropped atomic bomb
Hiroshima- August 6, 1945
Killed over 80,000
Nagasaki- August 9, 1945
Killed about 40,000
Japan surrendered August 14, 1945
WWII Ends September 2, 1945

16. Hiroshima Video

17. Nagasaki Video

19. Political Leaders in WWII
“The Big Three”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.)
Winston Churchill (Great Britain)
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
Other Political Leaders
Harry S. Truman (U.S.)
Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Hideki Tojo (Japan)
Chaing Kai-Shek (China)

20. “The Big Three”