Modern Texas Smore
By: Gage Bogdos
The US ready up for WWI
The US soldiers take cover in trenches
Edward House
President Woodrow Wilson
What countries participated in WWI?
Central Powers/ Enemy's: Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Germany.
****Timeline Turned into Google Classroom****
Questions:
2. How did Texas play a important role during the war? Answer: They played a important role by, being the state that was being targeted by Germany to be returned to Mexico. Also the trained soldiers from Texas was given control of the US during the war.
3. Germany finally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were discussed.
The Great Depression (PART 2)
This picture shows a women that is in the Great Depression and has no job and is homeless
Two men looking for a good job in the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Great Depression Timeline Turned into Google Classroom
Questions:
What caused the Dust Bowl and how did it affect farmers in Texas? Answer: Hi wheat prices let farmers to plant more crops. Over planting of the wheat contributed to a natural disaster. Drought began to happen and strong winds caused a dust storm killing livestock and giving people lung problems.
Which New Deal programs were important to Texas? Answer: The programs were a relief for the poor, jobs for the unemployed, recovery for the economy, and economic reforms to prevent another Depression. (Helped reform the US economy)
How were tenant farmers and miners affected by the Great Depression? Answer: Farmers had to cut down how much they grow to make the price rise. Therefore their land got taken away by other bigger farmers/growers and were also in major dept. Farmers also got effected by the dust storms formed by the Dust Bowl. The miners got effected because oil was boomed and went for a lower price then coal did.
WWII
Nazi/German Soliders
Mustard Gas
Adolf Hitler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Countries that praticpated in WWII
Allies- Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States.
WWI Smore Turned Into Classroom
Questions:
Answer: Texas trained many soldiers for the war approximately 750,000 men were served in the nations armed forces from Texas. Women also served in the war, approximately 12,000
How did life change for Texans on the home front during World WWII?: Answer: Men and Women trained at home for the war and Texans worked very hard to support the War.
How did WWII end?: Answer: The war ended when the USA dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan.