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29th president
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President Harding dies suddenly of a heart attack. He is succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge.
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30th president
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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Beginning with the stock mark crash in 1929 the great depression would not end until America's entry into WW2. Bills like FDR's New Deal helped to slowly bring the market back.
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31st president
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the wind erosion caused the phenomenon
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Amelia Earhart completes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman. She would later disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean in mysterious fashion
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32 president
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President Roosevelt establishes the New Deal, a response to the Great Depression, and focusing on relief, recovery, and reform. The New Deal greatly expanded the power of the federal government and changed the way people saw the government.
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition.
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The German passenger airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst killing 35 people.
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Fair Labor Standards Act is passed, setting the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour and time and half pay for people who worked over 40 hours in one week.
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Germany invades Poland beginning WW2. England and France declare war on Germany while America remains neutral.
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A global war between the Allied and the Axis powers that raged in Europe, Africa, and Asia
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Congress approves the Selective Service Act, establishing the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
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Perhaps the defining moment of the war, Germany invades the Soviet Union breaking the previous nonaggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union. Both sides would go on to inflict massive casualties on each other leading to Germany's defeat.
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The Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii destroying a large portion of the American Pacific Fleet. America enters the war and joins the Allied powers.