America: 1921-1941

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    Roaring Twenties

    A period of great wealth, spending, looseness and novel social ideas.
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    Harding Presidency

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    Coolidge Presidency

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    Hoover Presidency

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    The Great Depression

    An economic depression caused by credit debt and the Wall Street stock market crash.
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    The Dust Bowl

    Unsustainable farming practices, dry weather, and blustering winds blew dry, dusty topsoil across the midwest, destroying crops and putting farmers out of business.
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    Roosevelt Presidency

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    The New Deal

    FDR's policy of government intervention and aid designed to reinvigorate the American economy and bring the US out of the Great Depression.
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    World War II

    Another global war that began with the Nazi invasion of Poland.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bring the U.S. into WW2.