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Chapters 25-29. By: Robert Sawinski, Peter Kim, Dylan Pascua, Alex Nam, And Rex Pagarigan. Women’s Suffrage. It would have given women the right to vote and also to run for office started in the eighteenth century
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Chapters 25-29 By: Robert Sawinski, Peter Kim, Dylan Pascua, Alex Nam, And Rex Pagarigan
Women’s Suffrage • It would have given women the right to vote • and also to run for office • started in the eighteenth century • It was generally recognized after political campaign to obtain it were waged. • It was started in France
Sports and Popular Culture in the Roaring 1920s • Baseball, Boxing, track, football, swimming, and recreational sports. • Music- phonographs, Jazz and opera, and Lewis Armstrong
WWI and American Isolationism • Americas longstanding to stay away from war, by avoiding Europe. • The Isolationists kept Americas perspective, and saw that they were different from the Europeans. • America was able to achieve freedom and democracy by avoiding war.
Agriculture and Signs of Economic recession that led to the Great Depression • The Great Depression was a worldwide event. • Started 1929, and ended in the late 1930s • Had poor distribution of wealth, over production and high inventories, unbridled speculation, over use of credit and buying stocks on margin, unemployment- production slows down, and weak banks and easy credit by the federal reserve.
FDR vs. The great Depression • He created the financial securities act- which required promoters to make the financial information about stock issues open to the public. • Also the Gold reserve act- which ended the dependence on gold standard, and started using a currency standard. • He also did a whole bunch of other small acts.
FDR as a WWII leader • He was a quick study • He had a boundless appetite for knowledge that combined with his capacity to absorb a striking range of facts through conversation. • His talking was his preferred mode of learning.
American military strategies in WWII • The biggest goal was to put as much military emphasis against Germany. • They did this because they knew Germany was the most powerful country, and that they had a great Military. • Another strategy was to take the fight to the enemy. The American air force was used to drop mass amount of bombs over German industrial and military targets.
1944 GI Bill and the Marshall Plan • The 1944 GI Bill was also known as the Servicemen's readjustment act • It was for anyone who served in WWII and they had freed education as far as they wanted. • The Marshall plan was from 1945 through 1947 • The united states helped European economic recovery with direct financial aid.