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The Prohibition Era
Women made up the majority of moviegoers and Mary Pickford was popular (she wore short skirts, make-up, and smoked cigarettes). Speakeasies and Blind tigers became popular during the probation era because women called flappers started to go there to party with young men. These places sold alcohol illegally. -
National Socialist German Workers' Party
A far-right political party created to pull workers away from communism. Adolf Hitler joined the party and became its leader in its founding year. Hitler was then appointed Chancellor of Germany and began his totalitarian reign known as the Third Reich. -
Warren Harding
He becomes the 29th President of the United States. -
Emergency Quota Act
It was formulated mainly in response to the large influx of Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe -
Joseph Stalin
He is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. -
Calvin Coolidge
After President Harding unexpectedly died in office, the
Vice-President, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th U.S. President. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted to overthrow the Bavarian government. Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for treason but served less than one year of his sentence. The putsch and his trial catapulted Hitler into a national figure. -
Beer Hall Putsch defeated
This was a failed coup by the Nazi Party to overthrow the Bavarian government. -
Immigration Act
The act limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota, completely excluding Asian immigrants, was enacted on this date. -
Revenue Act
This act cut federal tax rates (retroactively for 1923) and established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals, which was later renamed the United States Tax Court. -
Dawes Plan
This plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay. -
The Scopes Trial
The state of Tennessee took John T. Scopes, a substitute teacher, to trial for violating the Butler Act when he taught evolution to his students. -
Herbert Hoover
He becomes the 31st President of the United States. -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
This four day stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Herbert Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff (tax) which charged Americans more for the same goods. Panic was the main cause of the Great Depression. -
FDR
He becomes the 32nd President of the United States. -
End of Prohibition
The end of prohibition allowed alcohol to be manufactured and distributed in the Unites States. -
Hitler becomes Fuhrer
He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and later Führer in 1934. -
FDR Inauguration
FDR begins his second term after winning the 1936 election by a landslide. -
Hossbach Conference
This was the turning point for Hitler's foreign policy and military, also outline Hitlers expansionist policies. -
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World War II
The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
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Battle of Britain
It was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
FDR Inauguration
FDR begins his third term as President of the U.S. He was the first person elected to a third term and will be the only. -
Russia Enters WWII
Hitler terminated that pact by launching Operation Barbarossa, this was axis assault on Soviet-Help Territories. -
Pearl Harbor
The event that makes the United States join the second world war, this was an attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.
