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Women made up the majority of moviegoers and Mary Pickford was popular (she wore short skirts, make-up, and smoked cigarettes). Speakeasies and Blind tigers became popular during the probation era because women called flappers started to go there to party with young men. These places sold alcohol illegally.
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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. Hitler was then appointed Chancellor of Germany and began his totalitarian reign known as the Third Reich.
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He becomes the 29th President of the United States.
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It was formulated mainly in response to the large influx of Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe
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He is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party.
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After President Harding unexpectedly died in office, the
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Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted to overthrow the Bavarian government. Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for treason but served less than one year of his sentence. The putsch and his trial catapulted Hitler into a national figure.
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This was a failed coup by the Nazi Party to overthrow the Bavarian government.
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The act limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota, completely excluding Asian immigrants, was enacted on this date.
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This act cut federal tax rates (retroactively for 1923) and established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals, which was later renamed the United States Tax Court.
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This plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay.
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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.
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He becomes the 31st President of the United States.
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This four day stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent.
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Herbert Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff (tax) which charged Americans more for the same goods. Panic was the main cause of the Great Depression.
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He becomes the 32nd President of the United States.
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The end of prohibition allowed alcohol to be manufactured and distributed in the Unites States.
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He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and later Führer in 1934.
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FDR begins his second term after winning the 1936 election by a landslide.
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This was the turning point for Hitler's foreign policy and military, also outline Hitlers expansionist policies.
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The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
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It was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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FDR begins his third term as President of the U.S. He was the first person elected to a third term and will be the only.
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Hitler terminated that pact by launching Operation Barbarossa, this was axis assault on Soviet-Help Territories.
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The event that makes the United States join the second world war, this was an attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.
