Illustrations

Illustrations of the Time Periods


 * __Age of Anxiety__**

W.P.A soup kitchen Political cartoon of FDR putting up a detour to economic recovery. Stock market graph of 1927-1933

Political cartoon: Planned Economy or Planned destruction.

Hitler's book Mein Kampf (My struggle)

__Dictatorships and the Second World War:__
__Adolf Hitler__, leader of Germany, was responsible for the growth of Nazis and was a dominant leader during World War II; he had control of most of Europe until his demise towards the end of the war.

__Benito Mussolini__, leader of Italy, was allied with Germany for the majority of the war until Hitler betrayed Italy to advance in the war; Mussolini had similar views to Hitler.

__Joseph Stalin__, leader of the Soviet Union, improved the lives of the people greatly but was a very cautious man and thought that people were plotting against him.



December 7, 1941: the attack on __Pearl Harbor__ in Hawaii. The Americans were attacked by the Japanese, resulting in America entering World War Two.

__Politcal cartoon__, which shows that the world turned their backs to Hitler's plans, letting him take over.



__Winston Churchill__, known to have been one of the greatest leaders; was the leader of Britain and helped America bring down Germany.



 __Battle of Britain__ was the most famous air raid made by the British when fighting Germany.



__The Nazis__ were formed by Adolf Hitler, to help exterminate everyone that was not full-blooded German; they were Hitler's "willing executioners."



America bombed __Hiroshima, Japan__, with an atom bomb for revenge for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; this bombing resulted in many deaths and Japans surrender on __August 14, 1945__.


 * __Cold War__**









Eastern Europe After World War II


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Governing Coalitions and Political Parties of Western Europe 1945 - 1988


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Collapse of the Soviet Union



 * __1985 To Present__**

^^ Map showing which nations are members of the European Union.

^^Tearing down of the Berlin Wall

^^Attack on the Twin Towers, September 11th, 2001.