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Prohibition was a time when consumption of alcohol was prohibited in the US due to its effects on behavior and its adverse health effects.
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Harding's administration tried to let oil companies use government land to extract oil for their own personal monetary benefit.
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This act set quotas for how many immigrants could enter the US from certain countries so as to cut down on immigration.
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This was a work by Adolf Hitler. He would eventually lead Germany into World War Two.
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This achievement was amazing for its time and gave Lindbergh much fame.
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This economic collapse was caused by many things including stock market collapse, overproduction of goods, and the general panic of the public.
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Farmers had plowed up layers of topsoil to grow their crops and the the following years were dry and windy causing all of that topsoil to be blown into dust storms on the plains.
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This act gave monetary retirement aid to elderly Americans.
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President Roosevelt wanted to appoint a younger justice for every justice already appointed who was over the age of seventy in order to give himself an advantage in the court.
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This war would begin in Europe with the atrocities in Germany and in the Pacific with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Allies eventually one the war in Europe and the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan to win the war in the Pacific.
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On D-Day the Allies invaded France to capture it from the Germans in what was known as the largest amphibious attack in history.
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This acronym is short for victory in Europe day because it marks the date that the Allies won the war in Europe against Germany.
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This bomb was designed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and others in the Manhattan Project.
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These bombs were dropped on Japan bu the US in an attempt to evade more bloodshed in an already very bloody war against Japan.