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Emergency Quota Act of 1921
The Emergency Quota Act was signed into law by President Warden in May 19, 1921. It restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year, and also set down an immigration quota by which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. -
Occupation of Ruhr
The Occupation of the Ruhr (Ruhrbesetzung) was a period of military occupation of the German Ruhr valley by France and Belgium between 11 January 1923 and 25 August 1925. The occupation was a response to the German Weimar Republic widely and regularly defaulting on reparation payments in the early 1920s. The total reparation sum of £6.6 billion had been dictated by the victorious powers in the Treaty of Versailles. -
First transatlantic flight
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France in 33 hours and 30 minutes -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the fourth and last day of the stock market crash of 1929. It took place on October 29, 1929. Investors traded a record 16.4 million shares.During the four days of the crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 25 percent and investors lost $30 billion. That was 10 times more than the 1929 federal budget. It was more than the United States spent on World War I. -
Bonus army protest
Bonus Army was a gathering of 12,000 to 15,000 World War I veterans who along with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932. They demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression. Several riots broke out and shots were fired, two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the Army to clear the marchers' campsite. -
FDR “court packing plan”
FDR unveils 'court-packing' plan, In the afterglow of his landslide reelection victory in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled a court-packing plan that would have added up to five justices to the Supreme Court with the approval of the Democratic-controlled Congress. -
Invasion of Poland
German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. -
FDR wins 3rd term
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic two-term incumbent president, was reelected for an unprecedented third term. FDR won 54.7 percent of the popular vote and 449 electoral votes, a landslide by any reasonable measure but still less of one than the huge totals he had amassed in 1932 and 1936 during the Great Depression. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
U.S base Pearl Harbor came under attack from the japanese and suffered heavy casualties.The surprise attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the U.S entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan and three days later, on December 11, Germany and Italy each declared war on the U.S. The U.S. responded with a declaration of war against Germany and Italy.
