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Jazz is developed by musicians of New Orleans
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Palmer Raids/PostWar Red Scare
Two raids were conducted of suspected radicals and anarchists. 500 foreign citizens were deported as a result and this led to the Red Scare. -
Steel Strike Ends
Was an attempt by the weakened Association of Iron, steel, and tin workers to organize the US steel industry. -
The 18th Amendment is passed
Prohibition (The 18th Amendment) is the ban on making and selling of alcohol. -
Senate Rejects League
The senate spurned the treaty of Versailles. -
Nineteenth Amendment
This Amendment prohibits any United States Citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Warren G. Harding is elected president
He proposed lower taxes and he also put higher tariffs on foreign trade to help American companies. -
Immigration Quota
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States. -
Tariffs Up
It increased the tariff barriers on foreign manufactured goods which made it more difficult for European nations to trade and as a result pay off their war debts. -
German Reparations
Germany had to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war. -
Harding Dies
He was what people called an isolationist, because he wanted to stay out of other nations' problems except for self-defense. -
Ford Motor Company
Ford produced more than a million automobiles , at a rate of one per minute ! Each car costs $335. They used an assembly line, that's when the products move along a conveyer belt to speed up production. -
Fitzgerald Gatsby
Inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting long island's north shore. -
Scopes Violates Ban
John Scoped created a national conflict by breaking a law caused by fundamentalism. -
Klansmen March
The KKK believed that America should be racially pure, which means they discriminated the blacks. -
Spirit of St. Louis
The custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927. -
Immigrant Radicals
Several terrible events - including bombings - and the "Red Scare" caused Americans to fear "radicals". -
Babe Ruth 60
Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
It was Calvin Coolidge's creation and the pact was signed by 15 other nations. The treaty stated that these nations will not make a war with one another except in time of self-defense. -
Hoover President
Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. -
Stock Market Collapse
It was one of the leading factors of the Great Depression and the cause of the collapse was the increased use of buying stocks "on margin". -
Empire State Building
A 102-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City. -
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Bonus Army
The Bonus Army was the popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers. -
20th Amendment
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Presidency of F.D.R
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New Deal
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21st Amendment
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Glass-Steagall Act
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Dust Bowl
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Federal Housing Administration
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Neutrality Act
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Social Security Act
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Schecher Poultry Corp. v United States
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Revenue Act of 1935
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United States v. Butler
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Nazi Germany Invades Poland
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Smith Act
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Lend-Lease Act
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Japanese American Internment
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day
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GI Bill
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Atomc Bomb
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Potsdam Conference
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Taft Harley Act
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National Security Act of 1947
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The Marshall Plan
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Blockade
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North Atlantic Teaty Organization (NATO)
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Little Rock Nine Crisis
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The Chicanos Movement
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Televised Debates
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Election of J.F.K
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Bay of Pigs
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Freedom Rides
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gideon v. Wainwright Decision
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March on Washington
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Diem's Assassisnation
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Knnedy Assassination
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The Warren Commission
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24th Amendment
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Anti-War Movements
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Free Speech Movement
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Intro of Medicare
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Voting Rights Act
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National Organization for Women
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Black Panther Party
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Tet Offensive
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American Indian Movement
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Assassination of MLK
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26th Amendment
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Operation PUSH
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Equal Rights Amendment
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War Power Acts
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Vietnam Memorial
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US Bombs Lybia
Two United States Air Force B-2 bombers attacked Islamic State training camps in Libya overnight, killing more than 80 people. -
The Berlin Wall Falls
The Berlin Wall Falls and USSR Dissolves. -
Heavens Gate Massacre
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian group based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite.
