WW2 and the Great Depression

The start of WW1 WW1 started because of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, The archduke of Austria Hungary. The person responsible for his death was Gavrilo Princi. Who worked for a Serbian Terrorist group. by 1914 6 major powers of Europe divided into 2 groups. France, Great Britain, and Russia formed the central powers. While Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed the Allied powers.​

The declaring of war When the Russia troops Mobilized its troops, this caused the Germans to declare war on Russia and its ally France.​ In 1914, The Germans cut through neutral Belgium on there way to attack France. That caused the British to enter the war with an Excuse. Japan, Serbia, Portugal, Romania, Italy, and China joined the Allies with Britain, France, and Russia.​

The Us enters the war​ The US stayed neutral for 2 years while the president at the time kept them out. until April 1917 when the entered.​ Something that almost made the US enter was the sinking of the of Lusitania a ship carrying 128 Americans that died. Woodrow Wilson warned the Germans and they said they would stop. Until the US intercepted a telegram from Germany to Mexico telling Mexico to attack the US. Then the Germans started sinking American ships in the Atlantic with U-boats. After that the US confirmed that they were entering the war.​

US campaigns One of the thing that the US did to support there troops was start campaigns and make posters of the campaign. One campaign was Victory Gardens. Victory Gardens were gardens that people planted that contained fruits and veatables and then they would send them to the troops fighting. Other one was Liberty Bonds, Join the Navy, Red cross, Army. There were Liberty Ships etc.

The end of the war After the Germans surrender they had to sign the treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles stated that Germany had to accept the responsibility of Germany and the allies for causing all the loss and damage during the war.

The Roaring 20’s Once the war ended everyone thought life was great and the solders came home and everything good was happening. They named this the roaring 20s. Everything changed the people that lived on farms now lived in cities everyone was happy. There was women named Flappers. A Flapper was a young women with bobs in here hair.

The Stock Market of 1929 The Stock Market was where people put there money in banks and they would save it for them. Banks used this money to invest in farms but something went wrong. The Boll Weevil a beetle like bug was eating all the crops, also a huge drought had hit and farmers couldn’t grow there crops. So banks lost the peoples money. Black Tuesday was when the stock market crashed and everyone had lost all there money. All the banks were shut down by the end of the day.

The Great Depression The stock market had crashed and everyone had lost there jobs and money, so they couldn’t keep a house because they had no money. Bread lines were set up for people to get food, some people set up little house and they put them next to each other and they called this a shanty town. FDR finally got the US out of this hard time by a program called the New Deal. It took a while for the US to get back to where it was before and it finally has.