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Republican Warren Harding won the election in 1920, defeating Democratic candidate James M. Cox. During his presidency, Harding reduced taxes, particularly for businesses and wealthy people. High protective tariffs were enforced, and immigration was limited. Harding only served about two years in office, as he died of an apparent heart attack on August 2, 1923.
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This act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a quota that provided visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States. The percentages were based on a 1890 national census. -
A legal case between science teacher John Thomas Scopes and The State of Tennessee. Scopes violated Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach evolution in state-funded schools, and he was found guilty. Due to this case, the creation verses evolution debate began to arise and the anti-evolutionist movement began. -
The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length film with a synchronized recorded music score and lip-syncing. The film is about a man who goes against the traditions of his reverent Jewish family. -
Republican Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith in the 1928 election. The year he took control of the oval office was the same year that the United States economy plummeted and the Great Depression began. Though it is clear that previous presidents had a part in causing this to happen. Hoover took a large amount of the blame for letting this happen. He was viewed as insensitive towards the people's suffering, so FDR easily defeated him in the election of 1932.
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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is fifth cousins with previous president Theodore Roosevelt, defeated Herbert Hoover in the election of 1932. FDR became a symbol of hope for the people suffering in the great depression. During his presidency, he held press conferences, called "fireside chats" about different issues that the American people faced. FDR was re-elected three more times in 1936, 1940, and 1944, as a two limit term was enforced starting in 1947. Roosevelt died in 1945.
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There were many causes for the Second World War, but the main reason for it was Hitler and Nazi Germany's call for global supremacy. Germany teamed up with Italy and Japan to form the Axis powers, while Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union made up the Allied Powers who opposed the Axis Powers. It resulted in an allied victory after Hitler committed suicide and the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. This war goes down as the bloodiest war in human history.
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise bombing on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii by the Japanese. This was done as an attempt to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japan's planned military actions in Southeast Asia, though this was not very successful as most of the U.S. fleet was not present at the time. This attack awoke the sleeping giant that was the United States and caused them to enter World War II as an Allied Nation.