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Prohibition
Prohibition was a time when consumption of alcohol was prohibited in the US due to its effects on behavior and its adverse health effects. -
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President Warren Harding
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Harding's administration tried to let oil companies use government land to extract oil for their own personal monetary benefit. -
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President Calvin Coolidge
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National Origins Act
This act set quotas for how many immigrants could enter the US from certain countries so as to cut down on immigration. -
Mien Kampf Published
This was a work by Adolf Hitler. He would eventually lead Germany into World War Two. -
Charles Lindbergh Completed First Solo Flight From New York to Paris
This achievement was amazing for its time and gave Lindbergh much fame. -
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President Herbert Hoover
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The Great Depression
This economic collapse was caused by many things including stock market collapse, overproduction of goods, and the general panic of the public. -
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Dust Bowl
Farmers had plowed up layers of topsoil to grow their crops and the the following years were dry and windy causing all of that topsoil to be blown into dust storms on the plains. -
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Social Security Act
This act gave monetary retirement aid to elderly Americans. -
Court Packing Scheme
President Roosevelt wanted to appoint a younger justice for every justice already appointed who was over the age of seventy in order to give himself an advantage in the court. -
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World War Two
This war would begin in Europe with the atrocities in Germany and in the Pacific with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Allies eventually one the war in Europe and the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan to win the war in the Pacific. -
D-Day
On D-Day the Allies invaded France to capture it from the Germans in what was known as the largest amphibious attack in history. -
V-E Day
This acronym is short for victory in Europe day because it marks the date that the Allies won the war in Europe against Germany. -
First American Experimental Atomic Bomb Detonated
This bomb was designed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and others in the Manhattan Project. -
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
These bombs were dropped on Japan bu the US in an attempt to evade more bloodshed in an already very bloody war against Japan.