Friday, September 30, 2011

Major Evnets & News Papers of the 1920s-40s

During the 1920s-40s the journalism world gained a major change with new inavational ideas like newsreels and news being brodcast through the radio and duering major pictuers in the cinema. In the 1920s  the first radio commercial brodcast aird which can single handly change the journalism world. one of the worlds most famous magazine Ti me was founded which today it stills continues to become a best seller. the talking movies was invented during the 1920s which revolutionized the cinema. In 1929 the Stock Market crashes witch lead the U.S. in a Great Depression.
As we enter the 1930s the U.S. is in great destress with The Great Depression were the economy has hit an all time low. This event gave a huge blow to the newspaper business were newspapers werent selling well and thanks to the horrible economy. The Dust Bowl happend in the 30s were the western plains of the U.S. were stuck in a 10 year drought and endless dust storms. In Germany Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of germany and started the Nazi party and the anti jewish laws. Hitler anaxed Austria and starts The Third Reich and started World War II at the end of the 30s.
As the 40s begins alll of Europe is in war against Hitler and his Nazi party. the Nazi began to round up anybody that is Jewish or anybody that is diffrent from Hitlers belifes into concentration camps. this point in time it was called the Hlocaust. many Journalist used this time to get the scoop of a life time and recored this tragic event. in 1941 the japanese attack Peral harbor whitch angered the U.S. and declared war on Japan thus the U.S. joins World War 2. During this time journalist promoted the war with newsreels witch gave  the world updates on the war. the war continued on the U.S., France, Russia, Britain, and Italy form the allies and fought against the Nazi's and the Japanese. The U.S. starts The Manhattan Project were they are developing a weapon of mass distruction. In 1945 The Allies maneged to get to Berlin and won the battle witch let them win the war, in hiding Hitler commits suicide so he wont be captured and killed. Thus the Nazi party was no more but the war is not over. In that same year the U.S. brops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan witch led them to surrender and finish the war. At last World War 2 finaly ended. As the 40s come to an end many scientific discoverys were made like the sound barrier was broken by Chuck Yeager, and the Big Bang theroy was formulated. thus the 40s come to a cloes but it will be remembered by the disasteers of the war.

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