During the 1800s a new phenomenon was born, New Imperialism. As a side effect of the Industrial Revolution, countries started to seek ways to fulfill their individual interests. These nations included the major powers of Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. All of t...

In the spring and summer of 1941, the Second World War began to spiral into a truly global conflict. In 1940, the World War was in reality a combination of several regional conflicts around the globe and couldn't truly be classified as a global war. In Europe, Hitler's Germany had overrun...

The Great Depression was a very hard time for many Americans. Fourteen million Americans were out of work. Dust bowls swept across the west and took out large farms and made farm production decrease rapidly. One good thing during the Great Depression was films, music, and books. The Great Depressi...