Twentieth Century
By: Chase Lennon
Roaring Twenties
Louis Armstrong was a famous singer/musician
Women got the right to vote
Babe Ruth was a famous baseball player
Known as the jazz age
Age of intolerance
Harlem Renaissance(drawing, black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars
Eighteenth amendment was made(alcohol was allowed to be sold anywhere in the US) on January 29, 1919
Steel strike ended on January 9, 1920
October 1921 was the first baseball world series
Ford Motor company made over $1 million dollars
October 6, 1927 the first ¨talking” motion picture premiered
November 18, 1929 Mickey Mouse was created
October 1929 the stock market collapse
Black owned magazines and newspapers flourished
1920-1930 almost 750,000 african americans left the south and migrated north
1923- Radio beach party
1923- Women lying on radio at a convention
1922- Radio installed in an amateur car
1962- Dorothy Provine Pinky Pickham
1923- Coin operated radio in a Paris cafe
Vietnam War
- North Vietnam vs. South Vietnam
- 3 million people died, 580,000 Americans
- Every day, about 10 soldiers died
- War began in 1954
- U.S withdrew in 1973
- The war ended in 1975
- Disease was the main reason people died
- The war lasted 19 years
- North Vietnam won
- 40,000 American troops were involved
- 10,000 people are still missing
- President John Kennedy sent 400 trained soldiers to teach South Vietnamese soldiers how to fight
- 3,500 marines were sent to South Vietnam
- Mainly fought in South Vietnam
- South Vietnam was supported by more than 31 countries
1957- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greet president Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam
1966- U.S. B-66 Destroyer and four F-105 Thunderchiefs dropping bombs on North Vietnam
1965- Marine moves an alleged Viet Cong activist
1966- U.S soldiers searching for Viet Cong
1968- U.S marines in action
Why did you choose the two topics?
How did these events impact society?
The Vietnam war impacted society in many ways as well. Even though this war was not the most bloodiest or the most deadliest it still affected society in many different ways. Vietnam War costed a huge amount of money in total. Also, many Americans died or many are still missing to this day.