History of the United States

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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA revision part 2 (20th century) - gap
filling and listening comprehension

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World War I

• President Woodrow Wilson kept the USA out of war
  for three years position of a neutral trader
• the USA declared war on Germany in 1917
  submarine warfare
• America took part as a victorious country in the
  negotiations in Versailles

http//videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/24535-american
-diary-america-declares-war-video.htm
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Prohibition (1919-1933)

• 18th Amendment sale, manufacture, and
  transportation of alcohol for consumption are
  banned nationally
• Illegal production and distribution of alcohol
• AlCapone earned fortune on illegal alcohol sales
  (Chicago)

Repeal of Prohibition
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Great Depression

• Black Thursday (October 24, 1929), the stock
  market crash in New York destroyed the dreams of
  a rich society
• high rate of unemployment, poverty, breadlines,
  etc.
• President F.D. Roosevelt the First and Second
  New Deal

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Cold War

• conflict between the United States and the Soviet
  Union and their respective allies from the
  mid-1940s to the early 1990s shape of the
  post-war world
• nuclear weapons,
• espionage, space race

NATO member states
Other allies of the USA
Warsaw Pact member states
Socialist country allied with the USSR
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Cold War Conflicts Korean War (1950-1953)

• United States soldiers fought on the side of
  South Korea against the North Korean and Chinese
  troops
• General McArthur
• President Eisenhower did a lot to end the
  conflict in 1953 cease-fire was signed

http//videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/21117-korea-am
ericas-forgotten-war-video.htm
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http//www.surfnetkids.com/articles/about_the_kore
an_war-16839.htm
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End of Cold War

• Ronald Reagan was successful in bringing about an
  end to the Cold War
• in 1987, he and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF
  Treaty at the White House weapons of mass
  destruction under control

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Gulf War (1990-1991)

• George Bush had to handle the crisis in the
  Persian Gulf
• in 1990 the Iraqi army led by Saddam Hussein
  invaded Kuwait oil
• in 1991 Iraq was driven out of Kuwait by the US
  and allied soldiers

http//videos.howstuffworks.com/military-channel/5
141-20th-century-battlefields-1991-gulf-war-1-vide
o.htm
http//videos.howstuffworks.com/military-channel/5
142-20th-century-battlefields-1991-gulf-war-2-vide
o.htm
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