History 12
  • motives of the USA
  • Motives of France
  • Motives of G-B
  • The Big Three
  • Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
  • The War Guilt Clause
  • Nationalism and formation of new countries
  • war reparations
  • The treaties with the lesser powers
  • The formation of the league of nations (collective security)
  • Changing role of women
  • Russia 1917-1945
    • Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./March Revolution 1917
    • The Provisional Government
    • The Bolsheviks: October/November Revolution 1917
    • outcomes
    • Vladimir Lenin
    • Russian Civil War 1919-21
    • War Communism
    • “Socialism in One Country” Lenin’s Death and the Power Struggle
    • Collectivization
    • Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
    • Show Trials and the Great Purges
    • Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Stalingrad
  • Boom and Bust - Usa in the 20's and 30's
    • A consumer Society
    • Henry Ford, Assembly lines and the model T
    • Isolationism
    • prohibition
    • The washington naval conference, 1921
    • The dawes plan, 1924. The young plan 1929
    • Buying on the margin
    • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock market crash
    • Herbert hoover and hoovervilles
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 days
    • The new deal
    • Alphabet agencies
    • John mavnard kevnes
    • fireside chats
    • learnt to dance the charleston!
  • The rise of fascism - Europe in the 20's and 30's
    • The weimar republic
    • The maginot line
    • The beer hall putsch and main kampf
    • Mussolini and the rise of fascism
    • Locarno and kellogg-briand pacts
    • Gustaf Stresemann and the dawes plan
    • Early acts of appeasement
    • Final acts of appeasement
    • The spanish civil war
    • Hitler and the rise of Nazism
    • anti-semitism and the hollocaust
  • World War II
    • The Invasion of Poland
    • The Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
    • Invasion of France (Dunkirk)
    • The Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
    • The Battle of the Atlantic
    • North Africa
    • Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
    • operation barbarosa
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Japan’s Need For Natural Resources
    • Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
    • Island Hopping
    • Invasion of Italy
    • D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge
    • Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • The Manhattan Project
    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold War
    • Advances in Technology
    • The Nuremburg Trials
  • Early Cold War
    • A Bi-polar world
    • The Truman doctrine and Marshall plan
    • 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia
    • Yugoslavia and Albania "cracks in the iron curtain"
    • The Berlin blockade airlift 1948
    • NATO and warsaw pact
    • The Korean war, 1950-53
    • Nikita Kruschev and
  • The Late Cold War
    • The gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
    • Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
    • Vietnamization
    • The Leonid Brezhnev Era
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
    • Czechoslovakia, 1968
    • Richard Nixon and Detente
    • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
    • The Helsinki Accords, 1975
    • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Perestoika and Glasnost
    • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
    • Coup in Russia, 1991
  • China 1919-1991
  • The Middle East 1919-1991
    • Blog
    • Untitled
    • Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
  • Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
  • Blog for last unit

Prohibition

1920-1933
Volstead act- act to ban alcohol in the USA. ( could still get it in canada so ppl would bring it in illegally)
Rum running- bringing alcohol into the states
people used fast cars to get across the boarder- and they would also race the fast cars
this is how NASCAR started
prohibition is in place until 1933 in the USA( ends in early 1920's in


Summary: The volstead act was instilled to ban alcohol in the USA, however people could sell get it in Canada so it would be brought in illegally. Rum-rumming became popular, which was the act of bringing alcohol in to the States. Fast cars were used to do this, and this was how NASCAR started. 

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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. 
Will Rogers 

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