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A far-right political party created to pull workers away from communism. 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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This act was intended to temporarily limit the number of immigrants in the face of the large number of Jews fleeing from persecution overseas. Its purpose was to restrict the amount of undesirable immigrants and favored immigrants from western Europe. It added two features to the country's immigration laws, numerical limits and using a quota system to set that limit, making it the most important turning point in the U.S. immigration policy.
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Stalin 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 plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay.
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Coolidge became America's 30th president after winning the election
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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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Herbert Hoover was 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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Franklin Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States. He served 4 terms as president and died in his fourth.
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Hitler becomes the supreme power of Germany and has entire control of what happens and goes on inside of the borders of Germany.
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During this year Germany advance and successfully took Rhineland.
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This was the turning point for Hitler's foreign policy and military, and outlined Hitlers expansionist policies.
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This was the Second World War that started with France and Britain declaring war against Germany.
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The USSR invaded Finland because they had a stable economy and were growing fast at the time.
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Germany advances through Europe and takes France through a massive siege and several battles. Over the course of six weeks the allied forces were unable to stop their advance.
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This was a air battle between Germany and Britain, about 1,000 British aircraft were shot down while Germany had over 1,800.
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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 the Empire of Japan through a coordinated airwave of Japanese bombers.