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Period: to
Prosperity to WWII
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Warren Gamaliel Harding becomes president
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Adolph Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
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Fascist leader Benito Mussolini is appointed the Premier of Italy
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Calvin Coolidge becomes president
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Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight
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Herbert Hoover becomes president
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Great Depression begins
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president
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Japan and Germany withdraw from League of Nations
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Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
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Dust Bowl begins
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Social Security Act
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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U.S. enters World War II
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D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
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Harry S. Truman becomes president
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U.S. takes Okinawa
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Germany surrenders from WWII
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan Surrenders, ending WWII
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U.S. joins the United Nations