History GCSE America
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Russian Communist RevolutionFirst Model T ReleasedWW1 Ends
Europe owes America 12.4 billionVolstead Act Passed 1920
- 18th Amendment
- Drink viewed as unpatrioticWomen Gain Vote 1920
- 19th AmendmentSacco and Vanzetti Trial CommencesEmergency Quota Act 1921
- 3% of total country population can immigrate each yearFordney-McCumber Tariff 1922
- Raises Taxes on foreign goodsNational Origins Act 1924
- 150,000 per year
- No Asians1925
- 1 Ford Every 10 seconds1925
- 30,000 KKK march in Washington
- Membership reaches 5 millionSacco and Vanzetti Executed
Pardoned 70 years later1927
- First Talkie is Released
- 60 Million Americans to a cinema every week
- Hayes Code1928
- Ford Model T costs $295
- 3 Months Wages1929
- 10 Million Women Working
- Divorces Double to 200,000 comp. 1914
- 2 million men travel the country
- 1.1 billion stocks traded
- Banks leant 9 billion
- 20 million shareholders vs 4 million 1920St Valentines Day Massacre
- Capone kills Bugsy Moran
- False Police Car
- Public Outrage1919
- NAACP has 90,000 memebersCrash Events
- 21st large scale selling begins
- 24th banks intervene
- 28th banks withdraw support
- 29th crash happensHawley-Smoot act raises tariffs 1930
+20% on Foreign ImportsWarren HardingCalvin CoolidgeFDRHerbert HooverBonus Marchers
- 19,000 WW1 vets march with 21,000 others
- MacArthur uses 6 tanks and tear gas to disperse veterans
- PR disaster for Hoover1932
- 50% of All Farmers Evicted
- 24.9% Unemployment
- 3 billion trade from 10 billion in 19291933
- 60 Million Tune into Fireside Chats
- Emergency Banking Act
- 14 million unemployedProhibition Repealed1930
- First Wave of Drought Hits America
- Dust Bowl begins
- 162,000 flights per yearFailed Soviet Coup by Yazov and PavlovEmigration from East Germany
Reaches 20,000 per monthUSA begins to fund France in Vietnam
- 500 million per yearBerlin wall erectedBerlin Wall FallsFrench-IndoChina War beginsFrench withdraw from VietnamRolling Thunder beginsFirst Troops Arrive - 3500
- Conscrition starts
- 30% Black Americans
- 19% White AmericansLast US troops withdrawn
- 400,000 troops withdrawn
- 58,000 deaths
- 828 billion spent
- 1 million dead Vietnamese with 70k civiliansRolling Thunder ends
Nixon's "peace with honour" signedVietnam falls to CommunismLaos + Cambodia fall to CommunismBreznev leads USSR from KrushchevBrittain sends troops to Greece
- Between Communists and MonarchistsAmerica begins to fund Brittish troops in GreeceGreek civil war ends
- Monarchists in control
- Very fragile governmentYalta Conference
- Hunt down German war criminals
- Split Germany into 4 parts
- Stalin agrees to invade Japan
- Free elections in all liberated countries
- Soviet Sphere of influence
Stalin + Churchill Greece/Poland bargainMarshall Plan is passed
- Marshall aid gives 17 billion to support containment
- Soviets cannot take any moneyTito expelled from CominformGobachev resigns Christmas DayCastro overthrows Batista- Eisenhower adminstration plots to kill Castro
- Castro becomes CommunstHungary tears down fence with AustriaPoland holds free electionsBaltic states declare independanceBerlin Airlift starts in June till Sept next year
- moves 2.3 million tonnes
- Planes at 30 second intervalsReagan is electedComecon is settupAlexander Dubcek leads Prague Spring (April-August)
- Less censorship
- Freedom of speech
- Less secret police
August Soviet Tanks InvadeKruschev leads USSR from StalinGermany reunfidedSolidarity founded
- disbanded in Feb of 1981
- 9.4 million peak membership
- Lech Walesa
- Crushed by Gen. JaruzelskiBrezhnev diesGorbachev leadsPotsdam Conference
- Stalin has prevented free elections
- Truman denies reparations
- Truman denies dismantling Germany
- Clement Atlee swaps with ChurchillVietcong FoundedFirst USSR atomic bombNgo Dihn Diem installed with prevented elctionsTet Offensive
- 80,000 fighters attack over military targets/cities
- Includes US embasy in Saigon, which is defended live on televisionBerlin Blockade lasts till May 1949Bay of Pigs launched (APRIL)
- 1400 Cuban ExilesKrushchev arms Castro
- Sept Kennedy issues warning
- 14th Missiles found
- 22nd Quarantine around Cuba
- 27th JFK agrees to Krushchev's terms
- 28th Missiles taken downChina CommunistNorth and South Korea go to warSouth Koreans pushed to PusanUN lands at 38th Paralell and pushes North to Chinese BorderNorth-South Korean ceasefire at 38th ParallelMcArthur sacked for insubordinationRakosi is replaced by Erno GeroErno Gero replaced by Imre Nagy
- Nagy threatens to leave Warsaw PactNagy is replaced by Kadar
- 3000 Hungarians killed
- 1000 Russians killedDubcek is exiled and reforms reversedNATO foundedWarsaw Pact formed40,000 students protest Vietnam700,000 protest VietnamBreznev Doctrine
- Must stay in Warsaw Pact
- Must be 1 party state<= AMERICA
WW2
COLD WAR =>1936
- FDR wins election by 27 million votes
- Train tour of 20,800 km of track
- 16 major speachesSupreme Court Rules AAA unconstitutional
- FDR attempts to pack Court with 6 more
judges
- Fails but scares them enough to not disagree
with him1938 / New Deal Consequences
- 10.5 Million still unemployed
- Adds 11 billion to US debt
- Pensions are cut by 15% for Gov employees
- Fails to end depression1921
- Farm prices fall by 50%
- 5x bankruptcies / 1900650 Banks Fail 19291350 Banks Fail 19302300 Banks Fail 19315000 Banks Failed 1933Civilian Conservation Corps
- 18/25 year olds
- Work for 6 months
- Environmental projects
- 2.5 million people helpedResettlement Administration
- Helps small farmers not helped by AAA
- Moves 500,000 familiesFederal Emergency Relief Administration
- Help state and local gov. set up work for the unemployed
- 20 million jobs created from 1933 to 35Civil Works Administration
- Help during the winter of 1933
- 4 million short term jobsAgricultural Adjustment Administration
- Long term reform of agriculture
- Teaches sustainable farming practices
- Gives help for mortgages
- Produce rises by 50% from 1933 to 36National Industrial Recovery Act
Public Works Administration
- Builds schools, dams, roads and bridges
- Spends 7 billion
- Built 70% of US schools
- Very expensive in taxes
National Recovery Administration
- Improves working conditions
- Outlaws child labour
- 2 million employers joinTennessee Valley Authority
- Set up to manage Tennessee river which flooded and dried regularly
- 33 dams made
- 9000 jobs made
- Displaced 15,000 families
- Implemented electrical lines in the areaFarm Security Administration
- Replaces RA in 1937 with same functionWorks Progress Administration
- Brought together all administrations which worked to create jobs
- 1 billion spent on poor farmers
- Blamed for making useless jobsWagner Act
- Forces employers to allow unions and sets up
National Labour Board to oversee disputes
- CIO is establishedSocial Securities Act
- Provides state pensions for elderly and widows
- Provides healthcare for sick and disabled people
- Mandates unemployment insurance where
workers must put aside money in case they loose their jobs1924 Revenue Act
- Cuts tax for 2 million AmericansRejects Idea of Farm BoardNative Americans gain citizenship
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