History of United States
Topics
• World War II at U.S.
• Civil Rights Movement
o Africa-American - Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
• The Sixties
• J. F. Kennedy
• 9/11 2001
• Usual bought stocks „on margin“ (borrow lacking money)
• Sudden decline of stock prices – BLACK THURSDAY (24/10/1929)
Mass devastation for countries around the world
Chaos, panic, suicides The morning had been
shocking, but the recovery was amazing. By the end of the day, many people were again
buying stocks.
Four days later, the stock market fell again
BLACK TUESDAY
Beginning of Great Depression
Stock Market Crash 1929
Breadlines and soup kitchens, sponsored by churches and other civic
groups.
The early 1930s ( mj. existenční
minimum)
World War II at US
1939 Neutrality Act (1)
not give loans to any countries at war. 2) Weith warring countries deal only in cash and they must pick up and deliver their own goods. (This is called Cash & Carry) 3) Americans could not travel on ships of warring countries 1940 Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act – FDR
provided weapons, vehicles and supplies to the Allies (mostly Britain), but also USSR
July 1941 – Japan attacked Vietnam (near are Britsh colonies)
The U.S refused to send materials to Japan
Japan + Germany + Italy against US + GB + USSR
Lend-lease aid also to China. FDR held his horses
until Japan made peace with China and promised not to invade British colonies in Asia
December 7, 1941 – Japan attack on American Pearl
Harbor, naval base
Propaganda Posters
Join the army
Grow food (Victory gardens)
Save food, fuel…
Work a different job
Do something to help America win the war.
Rosie the Rivete
D-Day (day of deliverance)
• June 6, 1944
• the Allied Forces attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy
• The Allied gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II
• Germany x France
• Allied had managed to slow down the expanding German forces.
• Germans didn't know where the Allies would
strike. (the Allies tried to make it look like they were
going to attack north of Normandy at Pas de Calais.)
5th February, 1945 Yalta conference among the Big Three
1. post-war world 2. fate of Poland
3. how to defeat Japan
Cold War?
World War II. at US
END of WAR
Japan capitulation 1945, September 2
‘Cold War‘
• Era of confrontation between the U.S and USSR (1947- 1989)
• Soviet Union wanted to convert the world to communism
• „Only nudging“
• 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization – an alliance of Western Europe, U.S. and Canada against USSR)
• 1950-53 Korean war
• Testing new nuclear weapons
• The space race
• The Berlin Wall built in 1961
• The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (Castro+Chruščov and rockets)
• Vietnam war 1955-1975
• End in 1989 with collapse of comunism (ussr)
Africa-American
Civil Rights Movement
• Rosa Parks & Martin Luther
– The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta
• Graduate at Morehouse College
• Baptist pastor, leader - social activist
• Efforts for racial equality and civil rights – lots of peaceful demonstrations
-28/8/1963 „Dream Day“ – at Lincoln Memorial in Washington
• Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
• † Assassinated on 4/4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
„I Have a
Dream…“
Rosa Parks
"the mother of the freedom movement„
• *1913 - †2005
• Once secretary to NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) President E.D. Nixon
• Then seamstress and activist of racial equality
(The Montgomery Bus Boycott)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• December 1th 1955, Montgomery, Alabama Rosa refused to give up her bus seat to a white man
(She broke Jim Crow law)
→ Arresting well known woman
→ Called meeting at church – pastor M. Luther K.
→ The Montgomery Bus Boycott
= non-violent protest against segregation
• After 381 days
Supreme Court validated lawless segregation
people based on their race
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Established Peace Corps
• The youngest president in US
• Witty, charismatic, loved
• Hero to many Americans.
But „The man who knew too much“
• Assassinated † 11/22/1963, Dallas
Speech -
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=xhZk8ronces
The sixties
• Era of radical social changes
• 1964
• Rebel young groups
• Freedom, love, drugs, music, happiness, vegans,
protect environment, emancipation, demonstrations, protests, out of old conservative orders and tabu
• Changes in literature, music, movies, fashion, art…
• Against -war (especially in Vietnam) - conformism
- segregation
• Woodstock 1969 music festival
• symbol of hippie (hippie‘s inception is beat generation) movement
• Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker
9/11 2001
• Attack on the Twin Towers
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdJuAtGU54
another sources
• http://docsteach.org/activities/3703/print
• http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/RosaParks.html
• http://www.afrostateofmind.com/blackoutblackfriday/
• http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/bus-boycott/
• http://iftbqp.com/bookmark/mlk-also-had-nightmare
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/
• http://www.achievement.org/achievers/par0/large/par0-009.jpg
• http://zinnedproject.org/materials/the-politics-of-childrens-literature-whats-wrong-with-the-rosa-parks- myth/
• http://iddavanmunster.blogspot.cz/2012/04/rosie-riveter-hairstyle-we-can-blog-it.html
• http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/historical-docs/doc-content/images/ww2- teheran-conf-fdr-churchill-stalin-l.jpg&c=/historical-docs/doc-content/images/ww2-teheran-conf-fdr- churchill-stalin.caption.html
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/about/search/search_results.html?q=WW+II
• http://theconspiracyzone.podcastpeople.com/posts/28160
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter
• http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/stockcrash1929.htm
• https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/partners/42.htm
• http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/1929crash?pg=18
• http://sgood927.blogspot.cz/2014_05_01_archive.html
• http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/1929crash?pg=8
• http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference
• http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/the-top-10-american-conspiracy-theories/?view=all
• http://conspiracy-watch.org/former-presidents-warn-about-shadow-government/
• http://nodisinfo.com/who-killed-jfk-evidence/
• http://studena.valka.cz/kubanska_raketova_krize.htm
• http://www.ihr.org/news/weber_ww2_may08.html
