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Between The Wars
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Treaty Of Paris
Treaty Of VersaillesThis treaty ended WWI but was the start of WW2 also Germany had to take the blame of starting the war and had to pay 30 billion dollars in reparations. -
U.S. involvment in the league of nations
The United States Senate fails to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and U.S. involvement in the League of Nations. -
Women Rights
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the legal right to vote, was ratified. -
America aids Russia
American food aid helps save millions of famine victims in Russia. -
Four-Power Pact
The Armaments Congress ends. It would lead to an agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty. -
Great Depression
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history. -
Franklin D. Roosevet
Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent President Hoover in the presidential election for his first of an unprecedented four terms. The landslide victory, 472 Electoral College votes to 59 for Hoover began the era of FDR that would lead the nation through the vestiges of the Great Depression and the ravages of World War II. -
Naval Expansion
The Naval Expansion Act passes. -
Neutrality
The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II after a year of European attempts to appease Hitler and the aims of expansionist Nazi Germany. -
Naval act signed into law
On the same day Paris fell to the German army and Auschwitz received its first Polish prisoners, the Naval Expansion Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, increasing the capacity of the U.S. Navy by 11%. Four days earlier, Roosevelt had condemned the actions of Italy's declaration of war against France and the United Kingdo -
Draft
The U.S. Congress approves and enacts the first peacetime conscription draft. -
3 TERMS
President Franklin D. Roosevelt continues his dominance of presidential politics with a 449 to 82 Electoral College victory over Republican candidate Wendell Wilkie, winning his third presidential election. Roosevelt becomes the first man to hold office for three terms. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act is approved, which provided $7 billion in military credits for American manufactured war supplies to Great Britain and other allies; in the fall, a similar Lend-Lease pact would be approved for the USSR with a $1 billion loan. -
U.S. Occupies Iceland
The United States occupies Iceland, taking over its defense from Great Britain and attempting to thwart a potential invasion by Nazi Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii commences at 7:55 a.m. when Japanese fighter planes launch a surprise attack on U.S soil destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet docked at the base. This attack which took the greatest amount of U.S. naval life in history with 1,177 sailor and marines perishing in the attack, as well as the loss or damage to 21 naval ships led to the entry of American troops into World War II. One day later the U.S. of America declares war on Japan, officially entering World War II.
