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AMERICAN HISTORY III
VY_32_INOVACE_15-19

• Great Depression
• WWII
• Wars and terrorism

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Beginning of the 20th century

• Industrial growth 1908 Henry Ford automobile
• Rockefellers Oil Comp.
• 20th cent. Words leading country ( WWI -1917,
  post war prosperity)
• 1929 Great Depression stock market crash,
  unemployment, poverty ?F.D. Roosevelt New Deal
  1932 measures to help from crisis

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F. D. Roosevelt

• president 1933 1945
• - culture/music, dance, film Chaplin, silent,
  colour, westerns, film musicals
• - architecture skyscrapers/functionalism,
  constructivism
• - science mathematics, physics, chemistry,
  astronomy, medicine nuclear reactor, plastics,
  , insulin, penicillin, polarograph.
• Diplomacy with the Soviet Union (Roosev.,
  Churchill, Stalin OSN)
• 1941 Roosevelts plan to help Eur. countries with
  material to fight against fascists

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Gross Domestic Product 1929 - 1941

• Autor U.S. Department of Commerce, Název
  Gdp29-41.svg
• Zdroj
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileGdp29-41.svg

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WWII

• 7th December 1941 Pearl Harbor destruction of
  Amer. aircrafts and fleet
• 8th Dec. war on Japan
• Africa gen. Montgomery tank battles at El
  Alamein Egypt
• gen. Eisenhower Morocco, Algeria, second front
  opened 1944
• D Day 6/6/1944 in Normandy
• Operation Overlord /2mil. soldiers, 6 000
  warships, 10 000 planes/
• war in Asia ag. Japan 1942-43 Guadalcanal in
  Pacific, Jap. lost 
• 1945 - Yalta Conference, afterwar zones in
  Germany
• president TRUMAN
• 6/8/1945 Hiroshima , Nagasaki
• 2/9/1945end of WWII----USA first in the world,
  technical and financial development

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Operation Overlord

• Autor neznámý, Název Approaching Omaha.jpg
• Zdroj http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileApproach
  ing_Omaha.jpg

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50s

•  Marshal Plan 1947 - recovering, reconstruction
  / 18 Eur. countries/  
• Truman Doctrine - help to anti- socialist
  countries, proclamation of cold war with Sov.
  Union 1947-1953 
• 1950 53 Korean War - communistic north/ SSSR,
  China/ versus democratic south /USA/, OSN, China
  interference
• 1952 pres. Eisenhower against Korean War,
  corruption, high taxes, communism but Mc Carthism
  (Mc Carthy anticommunist, senator) 
• from 1953 until 1989 worries about nuclear war
  USA vs. S. Union 
• 1956- 1959 Caribean Crisis Cuba (F. Castro
  communism, place for Soviet nuclear forces,
  Kennedy and Chrustchovs treaty)

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Civil RightsMovements, Vietnam

•  1959 Alaska, Hawai 
• 1960 J.F. Kennedy ( dem., reduce the
  unemployment, support production, equal rights to
  everyone, cooperation with Europe and S. Union
• 22/11/1963 assassinated in Dallas
• 1960s American fight against racism
• 1963 Civil rights for all Americans, banning
  racial segregation, black clergyman M.L. King /
  assasinated in 1968, Hippies
• 1961 1973/75 Vietnam War end p. Nixon, 1969-
  landing on Moon
• 1972 Watergate Affair, pres. Nixon

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Woodstock Festival and Hippies

• Autor captain aquariuzzz, Název
  Woodstock69.jpg
• Zdroj http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileWoodstoc
  k69.jpg

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Americans on the Moon

• Autor NASA, Název Aldrin Apollo 11.jpg
• Zdroj http//cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouborAldrin
  _Apollo_11.jpg

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American policy after 1970

•  1972 Watergate Affair, pres. Nixon - resigned
• 1983 Pershing rockets in Europe ---Russia
  attacked Afganistan
• Ronald Reagan 1981 1988 economical recovery 
• George Bush senior war in Iraq 1988 -93
• Bill Clinton
• G. Bush junior
• Barack Obama

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Ronald Reagan
Barack Obama

• Autor neznámý, Název Official Portrait of
  President Reagan 1981.jpg
• Zdroj http//cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouborOffici
  al_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg

• Autor Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley,
  USN, Název Barack Obama Inauguration Oath.jpg
• Zdroj http//cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouborBarack_
  Obama_Inauguration_Oath.jpg

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Thank you for your attention.

• Autor DUM Mgr. Darina Sikorová