10 picture with explanation

38th Parallel

This picture shows the 38th Parallel in which the line was chosen by U.S. military planners at Potsdam Conference. When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the 38th Parallel was made to mark off the boundaries between Soviet and American occupation zones. The 38th Parallel divides the Korean Peninsula in the the middle. In 1948, the parallel became the boundary between the brand new countries of South Korea and North Korea. On June 25, 1950, series of shoots rang out and after that Northern and the Southern sides crossed the parallel and invade South Korea

Ghetto during the Holocaust 

This picture shows a ghetto that existed during the time period of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, many Jews had to leave there homes and come live ghettos with their families and many more families. Ghettos had many harsh living conditions such as, unsanitary thing in the ghettos, hunger and fuel problems. Many people that lived in the ghettos had to work long hours in harsh living conditions and they got treated very bad.

 The Great Depression 

This picture shows a incident that happened during the Great Depression. When the Great Depression hit the United States, it hit the stock market the hardest. Many people were losing money from there stocks because people were not buying their stocks. Also, many farmers had lost many of their profits because other people were out of work and could not afford to buy crops. Many people were out of work so that meant they had least money to spend to many companies and business shut down due to low profits. 

Korean Peninsula

This picture shows the Korean Peninsula and how it is divided into two parts ( North Korea and South Korea). The Korean Peninsula is located in East Asia. Its extends from central Korea into the Pacific Ocean.


This picture shows a a scene from World War 1. World War 1 is also known as " The Great War". It was a worldwide war that was in Europe that began in July 28, 1914 and ended November 11, 1918. The war drew in all of the world's economic great powers, that consisted of two opposing alliances { Triple Entente- which had United Kingdom, France, and The Russian Empire} and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria- Hungary



This picture is a scene from World War 2. World War 2 is known as " The Second Great War". This war was a global war that lasted from 1939 and 1945. Due to the majority, of the world's nations, that eventually formed opposing military alliances.



This picture shows a background scene during the Industrial Revolution. It was the movement of new manufacturing in the period from 1760 to 1820- 1840. The movement included moving from hand productions methods to machines.


This picture shows a scene during the Korean War. The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea, which had support from the United Nations. At one point in time, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union. This resulted from the political division of Korea by an agreement of the Allies at the end of World War 2.





This picture shows an example of Nationalism. Nationalism is a belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation- that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history - rather than to a king or empire.



 This is a picture of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic was the name given by historians to the federal republic and the semi- presidental representative democracy that was founded in 1919 in Germany. It was named after Wiemar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place.