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The Prohibition Begins
The eighteenth amendment was put into effect during this time, it prohibited the manufacturing, selling, and transporting of alcoholic beverages. -
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The Roarin' 20's
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News was Alive
The Readers Digest was founded this year and Time was founded in the following year. So therefor most Americans were more informed than they were just a few years before. By the end of the twenties about 40% of the population owned radios as well. -
Nationalism begins to rise.
In 1922 Benito Mussolini rose to power to bring Italy to its former position as a world power.
In 1924 Joseph Stallin took control of the Soviet Union and continued the communist ways and became on of the mos brutal dictators in history.
In 1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor after inspiring hope in germans for a better and more economically stable country.
In 1939 Francisco Franco gained complete control of spain.
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Women Start Changing
With the right to vote finally under their belts, women bagan to examine society and question all the inequalities. Women began havig a say in their husbands and finally began to venture off outside the home. Flappers were born and began popping up at speakeasies and all around the city. -
Hoover(Boulder) Dam Authorized for Construction
This dam helped create jobs, electricity, and a safe place for water to be stored for farmers and consumers alike. The dam was the tallest built and also the second largest. -
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The Great Depression
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Patman Bill Declined
The patman bill, which stated that the veterans who were unadequately paid were to be paid off immediately, was denied at the senate which later caused protests and campouts in and around the capital directed to get at Hoover. -
The Dust Bowl
A drought began in the early 1930's that truly set off the bust storms. Farmers had already overworked some of their land which eneded up exposing sand and dust underneath the once fertile and lively soil. once the droughts began dust was often times seen in funnel shapes and knocking out any sight for hundreds of yards. -
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World War II
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Neutrality Act of 1939
Roosevelt persuaded congress to pass a "cash-and-carry" provision that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they pay in cash and transported them in their own ships. Thus helping the french and bitish defeat hitler while remaining out of the war. -
Pearl Harbor
Hideki Tojo failed to keep the peace with the U.S. and ordered all peace proposals to be rejected. A japanese dive-bomber swooped low over Pearl Harbor the largest U.S. naval base in the pacific. They contuned their bombing for over an hour and a half and left the U.S. suffering. -
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The Cold War
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Nagasaki
The US drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki -
North Korea Attacks South Korea
Japan had separated from Korea in 1910 so during WWII it was captured and overtaken half by America and the other half by soviet so therefor half became republican and the other became communist. The soviet part decided that after WWII had ended and the US slowly took their troops out of the South they would strike in hopes to capture the entire penninsila. -
Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union -
Reunification of Germany
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994
