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He coined the term "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920's. In This Sid of PAradise and The Great Gatsby, he revealed the negative side of the period's gaiety and freedom.
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At the age of 19, Gertude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.
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Charels A. Lindbergh took off near New York City in the Spirit of St. Louis, flew up the coast to Newfoundland. Paris threw a huge party. On his return to the U.S., New York showered Lindbergh with ticker tape.
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The stock market took a plundge. Panicked investors unloaded their shares. But the worst was yet to come.
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Established the highest protective tariff in United States history.
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The drought that began in the early 1930's wreaked havoc o the Great plains. Farmers from Texas to North Dakota had used tractors to break up the grasslands.
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By 1933, some 2,600 schools across the nation had shut down, leaving more than 300,000 students out of school.
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Martha Gellhorn arrived in Madria in 1937 to cover the brutal civil war that had broken out in Spain the year before.
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As dawn broke on March 15, 1939, German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia.
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On September 15, 1940 the RAF shot down over 185 German planes; at the same time, they lost only 26 aircrafts. Six weeks later, Hitler called off the invasion of Britian indefinitely.
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A former communist spy named Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union
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Americans learned that the Societ Unoin exploded an atomic bomb. Most American experts had predicted that it would take the Soviets three or five more years to make the bomb.
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As Hollywood tried to rid itself of Communusts, Congress decided that Truman's Loyalty Review Board did not go far enough.