Political leaders, economics, military conflicts, and industrialization

Economics

• Great depression
• Black monday
• great recession
• 1907 bankers panic

Great Depression

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• The great depression was the worlds largest and longest economic downturn
• Put millions of people into poverty

Black Monday

• Monday, October 19, 1987
• when stock markets across the world crashed

Great recession

• 2009
• threatened a collapse of large financial institutions

1907 Bankers panic

• We saw the Dow drop 50%
• triggered by over expansion and poor speculation
• eventually spread out across the nation
• caused businesses and banks to enter bankruptcy

All of these economic crises have helped shape our country and have helped us learn how to solve these problems with the help of our presidential leaders

presidential leadership

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• William H. Taft
• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy

Franklin Delano roosevelt

• 1933
• Created the new deal to make jobs and to help economy

William h. taft

• 1909
• passed the 16th and17th amendment

John f. kennedy

• 1961
• cold war and cuban missile crisis

Harry s. truman

• 1945
• decided to use the 2 atomic bombs against japan

All of these presidents helped shape our country because without all the accomplishments that these 4 presidents had, we would not be as strong of a country.

Industrialization

• Wright brothers
• George Eastman
• Henry Ford
• Alexander Graham Bell

Wright brothers

• Created the first successful airplane
• On December 17, 1903 the first successful plane was created

George eastman

•  Born on July 12, 1854 and died on March 14,1932
• Founded the company Eastman Kodak
• Invented Film and Kodak cameras that could use the film

Henry ford

• Born on July 30, 1863 and died on April 7, 1947
• Founded the Ford Motor Company
• Created a way to make cars more affordable for Americans

alexander graham bell

• Born on March 3, 1847 and died on August 2,1922
• Invented the phone for a better form of communication

These 4 inventors helped our country become more advanced. The inventions all helped the 3 other topics succeed in what we do.

Military conflicts

• Spanish-American war
• World War 2
• Iraq War
• Afghanistan War

spanish-American war

• April 25, 1898 – August 12, 1898
• Was a conflict between Spain and the United States

World war 2

• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
• A battle between the Allied and the Axis powers
• Resulted in Allied victory
• over 61,000,000 people killed on the Allies side
• over 12,000,000 people killed on the Axis side

iraq war

• 20 March 2003 – 15 December 2011
• There were allegations of weapons of mass destruction
• Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction
• The US invaded Iraq with permission of the United Nations

afghanistan war

• 7 October 2001 – present
• Entered after 9/11 
• Attacked by AL-quieda lead by Osama Bin Ladin
• Led to the killing of Osama Bin Ladin on May 2, 2011

Compare: All of these slides are alike because without the help of these presidents leading our country, Industrialization, Military Conflicts, and Economic events our country would not have been able to be where it is today and all of these are what shaped our country.