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Chicago Race Riot
African-American drowned in Lake Michigan after violating unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches while being stoned by white teenagers. When the police who did not arrest the white male, it sparked a week of riots between gangs of the Chicagoans. When riots end on 3 August 1919 23 blacks killed, 500 injured and 1000 black families lost their homes and where torched by rioters. President Woodrow Wilson publicly blamed whites for being the instigators of race-related riots in Chicago, and int -
League of Nations
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Hitler’s First Speech
Hitler took charge of the party propaganda in early 1920, and also recruited young men he had known in the Army. In February of 1920, Hitler urged the German Workers' Party to holds its first mass meeting. He met leading party members who thought it might be disrupted by Marxists. Hitler had no fear of disruption. In fact he welcomed it, knowing it would bring his party anti-Marxist fame. He even had the hall decorated in red to aggravate the Marxists. He spoke about the outline of the Twenty Fi -
Women's Rights
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First Winter Olympics
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. The “International Winter Sports Week,” as it was known, was a great success, and in 1928 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games, staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics. Five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in -
Immigration Act of 1924
The act was the first attempt to restrict immigration in the United States. The act not only affected those from Europe, but also Asians. The act was intended to restrict the number of immigrants from the “undesirable” parts of the world. One of the few fears the congress had when passing this act was the cheap labor force. A provision in the 1924 law barred entry to those ineligible for citizenship — effectively ending the immigration of all Asians into the United States and undermining the ear -
First Flight Across Atlantic
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Stock Market Crashes
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FDR Inaugurated as President
On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his “New Deal”–an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare–and told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Although it was a rainy day in Washington, and gusts of rain blew over -
Spanish Civil War
On July 18, 1936, the Spanish Civil War begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain. From the Canary Islands, General Francisco Franco broadcasts a message calling for all army officers to join the uprising and overthrow Spain’s leftist Republican government. Within three days, the rebels captured Morocco, much of northern Spain, and several key cities in the south. The Republicans succeeded in putting down the uprising in other are
