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21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment which was the prohibition of alcohol. This amendment was passed on December 5, 1933. -
The Gold Reserve Act
The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 required that all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve should be surrendered and invested in the United States Department of Treasury. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act of 1935 was a law enacted by Congress and is a law that created the Social Security Program and insurance against unemployment. -
Reorganization Act
The Reorganization Act was enacted on April 3, 1939, which was a law that authorized tribal-self-rule under federal supervision, which put an end to land allotment and generally promoted measures to enhance tribes and encourage education. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed on August 23, 1939, which was a non-aggression pact between nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled those two powers to divide-up Poland between them. -
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was military campaign of WWII, in which the Royal Air Force defended by the United Kingdom against the large attacks by Nazi Germany’s air force. -
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. -
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Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was an act to promote the Defence of the United States, was a program under which the U.S. supplied the United kingdom, Free France, the Republic of China, and later the soviet union and other allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. -
Fair Employment Practices Commission(FEPC)
Fair Employment Practices Commission(FEPC) was established on June 25, 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “banning discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work”. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African American civil rights organization in the U.S. that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil Rights Movement. -
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Battle of the Marianas
The Battle of the Marianas was a major naval battle of WWII that got rid of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s ability to conduct major scale carrier actions. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign oft western Front during WWII.