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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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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.
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Following World War I, the Triple Entente created the Dawes Plan to draw reparations from Germany.
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slashes income tax on wealthy and corporations
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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.
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Lindbergh was the first solo man to complete a flying journey across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.
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International agreement to not use war to resolve conflicts, sponsored by France and the United States
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Black Tuesday can be seen as the beginning step toward the Great Depression.
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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.
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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.
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Twentieth Amendment changes inauguration day to January
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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is the 32nd president of the United States
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No country currently backs its currency with gold
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'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 -
Italy, under Mussolini, invaded Ethiopia, which prompted the US to pass the Neutrality Act in 1935.
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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.
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Roosevelt proposed to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age seventy and failed to retire.
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It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction.
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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.
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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.
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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 German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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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.
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sets up post war goals for allies including no territory changes forced on populations, return of self government, reduced trade restrictions
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The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.