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Believed to be the trigger of the first World War
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More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war.
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First use of chlorine gas by the Germans
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United States Congress declares war on Germany
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It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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Mass unemployment and poverty caused great anger = people put in power/accept right-wing, dictatorial governments who told them their country was superior.
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A stock market crash caused many americans to either lose their jobs or have their pay heavily cut. 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed.
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Stock prices continued to rise, and by the fall of that year had reached levels that could not be justified by anticipated future earnings. On October 24, 1929, the stock market bubble finally burst.
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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.
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The Neutrality Act of 1937 established a “cash-and-carry” policy for warring nations that required them to pay cash for “nonwar” goods and transport those goods on non-US ships.
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Germany invaded Poland, setting off the Second World War
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