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In 1921, Congress passed the Emergency Immigration Act as a stopgap immigration measure and then, three years later, permanently established country-of-origin quotas through the National Origins Act. -
The Scopes Monkey Trial was a nationally-famous Tennessee court case that upheld a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools in that state in 1925. -
In 1928, Roosevelt won election as governor of New York. -
A small explosion tore up railroad tracks controlled by the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway near the city of Shenyang in the Chinese province of Manchuria. The railway company condemned the bombing as the work of anti-Japanese Chinese dissidents. -
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. -
Restore agricultural prosperity during the Great Depression by curtailing farm production, reducing export surpluses, and raising prices. -
provided for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and economic aid, based on means, to assist both the elderly and dependent children -
The Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China. It assaulted the Marco Polo Bridge on July 7, 1937, and routed the forces of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army led by Chiang Kai-shek -
The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In order to cripple the US navy.