1. HISTORY OF THE USA II.

2. WORLD WAR I. o 1917 – to help GB and France o profited from selling goods o Russia after the revolution withdrew from the war o 11. 11. 1918 – end of the war, ´´Armistice Day“ o president Woodrow Wilson

3. IN BETWEEN THE WARS o The 20s ´´Golden Twenties“ – prosperity prohibition (gangsters) o The 30s – The Great Depression (Crash on Wall Street) Reduce production Unemployment F. D. Roosevelt (served 4 terms) – New Deal

4. WORLD WAR II. o creditor o 1941 Pearl Harbor – Japanese aircrafts and bombs o 1945 Nagasaki and Hiroshima (Truman) AFTER: o Marshal Plan – plan for reconstruction of Europe o Cold war – USSR x USA (space race)

5. SECOND HALF OF THE 2Oth CENTURY o The 50s – prosperity, got involved in Korean war Beat generation o The 60s – The Vietnam war J. F. Kennedy Human rights movement (M.L. King) The hippies o The 70s – president Nixon o The 80s – Reagan, the end of Cold war

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