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The Teapot Sandal started when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior had started to lease the navy's oil reserves to private oil companies at low rates and this event had brought to light the corruption in the government. This event had tarnished Warren G. Harding's administration.
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Warren Harding sworn in as the 29th US President
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After a trip to Alaska, Warren G. Harding had fallen ill and had died leaving Calvin Coolidge to finish Warren G. Harding's term as the new President until the next election comes up.
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Calvin Coolidge sworn in as the 30th US President
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Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo and nonstop from New York to Paris. Lindbergh made the crossing in 33 hours. His feat restored many American's faith in technology.
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American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth had created the first television that could be operated at home and he had changed history forever
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Elected as the 31st President of the US
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The postwar prosperity had ended in 1929 because the stock market had lost $50 billion and that was the reason the Great Depression had happened since the stock holders started to sell all the stock they had incase the prices had drop significantly.
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Signed by president Hebert Hoover, the Smoot-Hawley tariff was the highest in American history. It caused other countries to raise their own tariffs and international trade ground to nearly a halt.
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Twentieth Amendment, amendment (1933) to the Constitution of the United States indicating the beginning and ending dates of presidential and congressional terms. It was proposed by Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska on March, 2, 1932, and was certified the following January.
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Elected as 32nd President. Franklin D. Roosevelt had won the election in a landslide because he had received 472 Electoral College votes compared to 59 Electoral College votes for Hoover.
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The 21st Amendment was a direct response to the preexisting 18th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which mandated the sale, possession, consumption, and transport of alcoholic beverages as illegal
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Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented his social security system because he wanted to help the retired people to have a way for them to survive, so the retirees would be payed out in two years starting at 2% of the first $3,000 to each retirees.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt won his second term in a landslide because he got 523 Electoral College votes compared to his competitor Alfred Landon who got 8 Electoral College votes
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The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war what would become the blitzkrieg strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemys air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery. .
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
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The United States declared its neutral in the war because the government officials and public did not want to get involved in a war that they did not have to fight and lose Americans lives if their interests are not involved in the war.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Warsaw pact, keeping the Soviet Union out of World War II.
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Battle of France, (May 10–June 25, 1940), during World War II, the German invasion of the Low Countries and France. In just over six weeks, German armed forces overran Belgium and the Netherlands, drove the British Expeditionary Force from the Continent, captured Paris, and forced the surrender of the French government
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Benjamin Davis becomes the first black General in the US Army
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Franklin D. Roosevelt won in another landslide election because he had received 449 Electoral College votes compared to his competitor Wendell Wilkie who had got 82 Electoral College votes
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a disaster for the American fleet because 8 battleships were damaged or sunk and 1,177 sailor and marines perishing in the attack. The United States had declared war against the Japanese on December 11th,1941 and the American people had backed the war against Japan to get revenge for the people who died in the Pearl Harbor attack
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
