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washington naval conference
Gathering of the largest naval powers -
Revenue Act
slashes income tax on wealthy and corporations -
Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
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Stock market crashes
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected 32nd president
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Hundred day Bank holiday
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20th amendment
changes inauguration day to January -
21st amendment
repeals prohibition -
Hitler comes to power in Germany
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Gold standard terminated
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Social security act
benefits for workers, victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
FDR reelected
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Japan invades China
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FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court
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Fair Labor Standards Act
creates the right to a minimum wage, and overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week -
United States Housing Authority
designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction -
Hitler takes Austria, Munich agreement
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland -
world war 2 begins
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Fall of France
German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War -
First peacetime draft