1. Dust Bowl: was a devastating moment for farmers during the Great Depression. It primarily hits Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The dust bowl affected their land because of a severe drought and very dry. Huge thick dust came with the wind and destroyed farmer’s vegetation and plains. They head to California because of the dust bowl. Roosevelt notices it and the government helps them. They created the soil conservation service which taught farmers how to prevent soil erosion. They start planting soil preserving grasses instead. The significance of this is that the farmers learn how to take care of their plains better when this kind of event happens again and they know how to take care of it and prevent it as much as they …show more content…
1906 Food and Drug Act: This was created because of a man named Upton Sinclair who was a muckraker. He wrote a book called, “The Jungle” and talks about the disgusting situation associated with food. The problem was that the meat wasn’t sanitary and they’re selling it for people to just eat it. With this problem, it was the government’s first time stepping in to take action. This act made sure that there was a federal inspection of meat production before selling it out and it also made sure that everything was labeled correctly. Made sure they were selling sanitary food. 3. GI Bill: Also known as the servicemen’s readjustment act. This was signed by Roosevelt in 1544 and this benefited many millions of veterans and their families. There were education options which allowed them to go to any university and also get home loans. The GI bill was important because it was the most important educational and social transformation in American History. It was a big economic growth as well. 4. Treaty of Versailles: This ends WW1. From this treaty, Germany gets their land taken away, League of Nations take over Germany’s overseas colonies, and Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. The League of Nations get created and fails. Woodrow Wilson doesn’t want US to be in the nation so he creates more hate to the US because he is the one that created it but doesn’t join it. The treaty was significant in ways that it lead to World War …show more content…
Flappers: In the 1920s, young women are dressed short miniskirts, bobbed hair and enjoying themselves with jazz music. Many flappers have flat chest, straight waist, and have more of a men like figure. Many of them were seen hasty because of their short skirts and too much make up. Even though there weren’t many of them, they became a significant symbol of women’s sexual and social liberation. The flappers are significant because they changed and influenced a lot of women’s styles. 7. Domino Theory: Eisenhower’s containment theory during the cold war. He believed that if all communist fail then noncommunist government would collapse. This happened during the cold war. It guided US policy in Southeast Asia for the next twenty years. But Vietnam didn’t fall into the domino theory. The 2 major countries that fell was China and Korea. It suggested that if one country in southeast Asia fell into communism then the neighbors of that country would fall like a domino. 8. Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy, October 1962. He found out there were missile bases in soviet side that they didn’t know about. Though President Kennedy vowed to not invade Cuba, US missiles were removed from nearby Turkey and US soviet relations became more tense. The crisis could’ve brought World War III happening and it also made great nations reconsider nuclear war. Thru this crisis people saw how big of an affect nuclear weapon can make and it causes a lot of