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Washington Naval Conference
World's largest Naval powers came to Washington to discuss naval disarment -
Stock Market Crashes
The stock market crashed, losing value and money in banks. This led to many Americans losing what they had in those banks and sending them into what seemed unrecoverable debts -
20th Amendment
Changes Inauguration day to January -
21st Amendment
repealed the prohibition (basically nullified the 18th Amendment) -
Gold Reserve Act of 1934
Stopped the relation between money and gold. We could not increase the amount of money we had without increasing the amount of gold as well. -
Social Security Act
Established a system of benefits for old age and victims of accidents workers and unemployment insurance for women, children, and physically handicapped -
Court Packing
FDR attempts to execute his "Court-Packing" Plan -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Made a minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, and child labor standards -
Munich Agreement/ Austria taken
Hitler takes Austria and Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy reach a settlement for German annexation of Sudentenland -
World War 2
World War 2 begins -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bomb US Navy ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii