American Foreign Policy andThe Coming of WWII: 1921-1941

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    Nazi Party

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    Warren G. Harding Presidency

  • Emergency Immigration Act

    It restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910.
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    Washington Naval Conference

    In the wake of World War I, leaders in the international community sought to prevent the possibility of another war.and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia.
  • Dawes Plan

    Following World War I, the Triple Entente created the Dawes Plan to draw reparations from Germany.
  • Revenue Act

    slashes income tax on wealthy and corporations
  • John T. Scopes Trial

    He was placed on trial for violating the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of anti-Biblical theories to students. The case was later thrown-out on a technicality, but the conflict between these two side nationally.
  • The Flight of Charles Lindbergh

    Lindbergh was the first solo man to complete a flying journey across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    International agreement to not use war to resolve conflicts, sponsored by France and the United States
  • Stock market crashes

  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday can be seen as the beginning step toward the Great Depression.
  • Manchuria Railroad Explosion

    The Japanese used a planned explosion as an excuse to invade China and take control of the Manchuria province. This incident began the Asian section of World War II.
  • Roosevelt Promises a New Deal

    The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering.
  • 12th Amendment

    Twentieth Amendment changes inauguration day to January
  • Hitler comes to power in Germany

    Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is the 32nd president of the United States
  • Gold standard terminated

    No country currently backs its currency with gold
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    Neutrality Acts

    '35: established a mandatory arms embargo against both sides of any military conflict
    '37: introduced the Cash-and-Carry policy on non-military goods
    '39: Congress, once again, revises the Neutrality Acts and lifts the arms embargo, allowing any warring nation to purchase military goods on the Cash-and-Carry basis
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    Invasion of Ethiopia

    Italy, under Mussolini, invaded Ethiopia, which prompted the US to pass the Neutrality Act in 1935.
  • Cash-and-Carry

    Addition to Neutrality Act: Warring nations can only purchase non-military goods from the US, and can only do so by paying cash and shipping their purchases to themselves.
  • FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court

    Roosevelt proposed to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age seventy and failed to retire.
  • United States Housing Authority Created

    It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction.
  • Fair labor standards act

    a federal law which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, record keeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.
  • World War 2 Begins

  • Munich Agreement

    After Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the French and the British agreed to accept Germany's demands in return for Hitler's promise to expand no further.
  • Non-Aggression Pact

    Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler, freeing the German, for the moment, from the danger of a two-front war.
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    The Fall of France

    The German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
  • The first peacetime draft

    Under the Selective Training and Service Act, all males between the ages of 21 to 35 are required to register for the draft. A lottery system determines who will be called into service.
  • Atlantic Charter

    sets up post war goals for allies including no territory changes forced on populations, return of self government, reduced trade restrictions
  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.