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in 1919 the United States Congress amended the constitution to make alcohol illegal. This law was of course broken frequently. -
This was a time of moral decay, with women dressing very different from their previous generation, and gangsters roaming the streets. Business men forsook sound business practices and tried to make money quickly and were filled with greed. Jazz music and baseball also became popular during this time.
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He flew his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic Ocean by himself -
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Triggered by the crash in 1929, wages were lowered, unemployment rose, and people began to starve.
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Adolf Hitler, leader of Germany, invaded Poland and proceeded to conquer it along with Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. Germany was part of the Axis Powers with Italy and Japan and fought the Allied Powers, France, England, USSR, and the U.S. Hitler also set up concentration camps that killed six million Jews.
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Japan surprised attacked the U.S Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the next day the U.S declared war on Japan. -
The Allied forces invaded German-occupied France with the largest army ever recorded on D-Day driving back Germany. -
Hitler commits suicide and Germany finally surrenders to the Allied Powers -
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan and then on Nagasaki, Japan three days later, killed a total of 120,000 people.