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Emergency Quota Act
Known by several other names, this act was intended to temporarily limit the number of immigrants in the face of the large number of Jews fleeing from persecution overseas. Its purpose was to restrict the amount of undesirable immigrants and favored immigrants from western Europe. It added two features to the country's immigration laws, numerical limits and using a quota system to set that limit, making it the most important turning point in the U.S. immigration policy -
Joseph Stalin
Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. -
Calvin Cooligde Becomes President
After President Harding unexpectedly died in office, the
Vice-President, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th U.S. President. -
Immigration Act of 1924
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. -
Dawes Act
This plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay. -
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. -
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. -
Stock Market Crash
This four day stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent. -
FDR Becomes President
Franklin D Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States. -
Hitler Becomes Fuher
Hitler becomes the supreme power of Germany and has entire control of what happens and goes on inside of the borders of Germany. -
World War Two Begins
The second World War begins after Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Hitler Took France
Germany advances through Europe and takes France through a massive siege and several battles. Over the course of six weeks the allied forces were unable to stop their advance. -
Russia Enters WWII
Hitler terminated that pact by launching Operation Barbarossa, this was axis assault on Soviet-Help Territories. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The event that makes the United States join the second world war, this was an attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.