Time Line

1940s

1950s

1930s

1920s

electricity

automobile

telephone

the great depression

motion picture

industrial growth

stock market crash

struggle

massive unemployment

poverty

WWII broke out at the end of the decade

USA didnt get involved in WWII

after Pearl Harbor, a u navy base in hawaii was attacked, they entered the war on the allies side

after the war Europe had to be rebuilt, whereas the USA didnt need to because no battles had gone down on the American mainand

refrigerators

television sets

USA growth

political

military

economic

population

hoovers

cars

became one of the worlds two superpowers

economically

politically

the two superpowers (Sovjet and USA) started a cold war that lasted for decades

new youth culture

James Dean

Elvis Presley

1960s

war and change

the space race

the cold war

the Vietnam war

hippies

traumatic experience for Americans

men and women died in a war they didnt understand

first war people protested against

first war the USA lost

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make love not war

1970s

movements that started in the 60s continued into the 70s

civil rights for minorities

Women's rights after the Vietnam war

environmental issues became important

industries and factories shut got down

a large influx of immigrants from Asia the US defeat in Vietnam

1980s

Ronald Reagan

cold war

supported anti-communist movements around the globe

iron curtain

the Berlin wall

was destroyed in 1989 and the war ended

the decade of MTV

music video

pop icons

Madonna

Michael jackson

1990s

short war in the moddle east (Operation Desert Storm

protect Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

suppliers of oil to the USA

throughout the decade the USA did better economically

the most revolutionairy technology was the PC and the internet

at the end of the decade, reality TV became a new popular genre

people thought that everything was going to crash and go to hell when we switched senturies

9/11 attack

four planes where hijacked

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