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National Socialist German Workers' Party
A far-right political party created to pull workers away from communism. Adolf Hitler joined the party and became its leader in its founding year. -
the immigration act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. -
Joseph Stalin
Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. -
President Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States. A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of Massachusetts -
Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for treason but served less than one year of his sentence. -
Revenue Act
This act cut federal tax rates and established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals -
Dawes Plan
This plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay. The plan provided for an end to the Allied occupation, and a staggered payment plan for Germany's payment of war reparations. -
President Coolidge Inauguration
On this date, the first national radio broadcast of an inauguration occurred when President Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office on the East Front of the Capitol. Coolidge's inauguration after winning the election.The first inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. -
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. The trial’s proceedings helped to bring the scientific evidence for evolution into the public sphere while also stoking a national debate over the veracity of evolution that continues to the present day. -
President Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
This four day stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent. the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped 24.8%, marking one of the worst declines in U.S. history. It destroyed confidence in Wall Street markets and led to the Great Depression. -
FDR Becomes President
an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
End of Prohibition
The end of prohibition allowed alcohol to be manufactured and distributed in the Unites States. -
FDR Inauguration
FDR begins his second term after winning the 1936. Roosevelt outlined his “New Deal”—an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare -
Germany Troops Occupy Rhine
was a consequence of the collapse of the Imperial German Army in 1918, after which Germany's provisional government was obliged to agree to the terms of the 1918 armistice -
WWII Begins
World War II began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. -
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Winter War
he USSR invaded Finland because they had a stable economy and were growing fast at the time. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940 -
Hitler Takes France
France had declared war on Germany, following the German invasion of Poland. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. This was a air battle between Germany and Britain, about 1000 British aircraft were shot down while Germany had over 1800. -
Russia enters WWII
Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. The invasion of Bukovina violated the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, as it went beyond the Soviet sphere of influence agreed with the Axis. On 22 June 1941, Hitler launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu