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Warren G. Harding becomes the president of the United States
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This act was used as a buffer for lawmakers in order to create the National Origins act in 1924. This act only allowed 2% of the number of immigrants from the same country living in America in 1890. This caused newer immigrants from Eastern Europe to be excluded. This act completely excluded the Asians.
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Stalin is appointed the General Secretary of the Communist Party.
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Established the US Board of Tax Appeals, later renamed The United States Tax Court, and cut federal tax rates.
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Tennessee took John T. Scopes to court when he tried to teach his students evolution. He was violating the Butler Act.
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The US Stock Market crashes and starts the Great Depression
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WWII begins against Hitler and his allied countries
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor causing the US to join the war.