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America in the 20th century

Published on Dec 13, 2015

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America in the 20th century

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Presidents

 
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WOodrow wILSON (1865-1921)

Leader of the Progressive Movement
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Teddy roosevelt (1858-1919)

President during World War II and one of the Progressive Presidents
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Franklin d. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

32nd president and another Progressive Presidents
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Barak Obama (2005-2014)

44th president and the first African American president
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CONNECTIONS
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt are progressive presidents that made the government better

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Progressive Movement
is a group of reformers united by a belief in a public interest or the good of all people

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Economics

  
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Gilded age (1870-1900)

a period of rapid economic growth but also much social conflict
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Progressive movement (1890-1920)

The purification of government through direct democracy
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Great depression (1930-1940)

a twelve year economic and social disaster
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tHE Great rECESSION (2008)

a global economic decline in the late 2000s decade
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CONNECTIONS
The Gilded Age, The Great Depression, and The Recession are all times of economic or social troubles when the progressive movement was trying to fix economic problems and make them better.

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Military Conflicts

 
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wORLD WAR I (1914-1918)

 A military conflict that involved allies and central powers
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WORLd WAR II (1939-1945)

fought between two opposing military alliances, the allies and the axis
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Cold war (1945-1991)

a period of tension between the US and the Soviet Union
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Vietnam war (1955-1975)

a proxy war when the USA and the USSR opposed each other 
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CONNECTIONS
all of these wars are connected to each other because they have caused each other. WW1 led to WW2 which led to The Cold War

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Civil Rights

rights guaranteeing freedom and equality
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womens rights after ww1

women's rights, higher education, better jobs and pay
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CIVIL RIGHTS AFTER WW2
significant changes were made to America law through making new laws and finding old laws unconstitutional

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JAPANESE american

were released from interment camps and were given back rights
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LGBT RIGHTS

works for no discrimination based on sexual orientation gender and identity
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CONNECTIONS
all these rights are connected because they gave Americans freedom and equality

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LGBT RIGHTS
Obama was the first president to support same sex marriage.

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