What were the social and political events and issues in the years 1912 and 1945?
1912: –Bread and Roses strike–one of the most dramatic and successful strikes in American labor history –The Titanic sinks –Women’s suffrage (major parades/marches, especially in NYC and London–big one in May 1912 in NYC) –US President Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Taft –Mexican Revolution –China becomes a republic –Balkan wars 1945 –World War II (end of WW2). Major WW2 events in this year specifically: Battle of the Bulge; Yalta Conference; Battle of Iwo Jima; Battle of Konigsberg; Battle of Okinawa; Hitler commits suicide, as do Goebbels and Himmler; Potsdam Declaration; Pearl Harbor bombing; US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. War officially ends in September –FDR becomes US president; dies and is succeeded by Truman –Benito Mussolini is executed –Winston Churchill resigns –Chinese Civil War –Setif massacre in Algeria –Women’s suffrage – women allowed to vote in France for the first time (October 21) –United N
