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| Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act | 1922 increased duties of foreign manufactured goods by 25%. protective of US business interests but destructive. european nations were slow to recover from war and couldn't pay war debts to US. |
| Prohibition; Volstead Act | 1919 anti-alcohol. |
| Immigration Quota laws | 1921-4. 3% immigrants can come. 2% immigrants can come. |
| Kellogg-Briand Treaty | 1928 renounced use of force to achieve national ends. ineffective |
| Dawes Plan | 1924 established a cycle of payments flowing from us to germany and from germany to allies. us would lend germany money, germany would pay britain and france would pay US. |
| Great Depression | Oct. 1929. Wall street crash. uneven distribution of income. stock market speculation. excessive use of credit. overproduction of consumer goods. weak farm economy. government policies. global economic problems. |
| Hawley-Smoot tariff | 1930 highest tariff rates in history |
| Farm Board | 1929. help farmers stabilize prices by holding surplus grain and cotton in storage |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | 1932 propped up faltering railroads, banks, life insurance companies. trickle down. dems said it would only help the rich. |
| 20th Amendment | 1933 established the longevitiy of presidental terms |
| Public Works Administration | construction on buildings in us. |
| Manchuria | Sept. 1931 Japan captures this place. league of nations did nothing. this showed the league's inability to maintain peace. |
| Stimson Doctrine | US would honor its treaty obligations under 9-power treaty by refusing to recognize the legitimacy of any regime captured by force. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | 1933. Roosevelt promises this. pan-american conferences. roosevelt pledged never again to intervene in internal affairs of latin america. repudiated monroe doctrine |
| London Economic Conference | 1933 hoover agreed to allow US participation in international economic conference called league of nations. |
| Tydings-McDuffie Act | 1934 provided for independence of philippines by 1946 and gradual removal of US military from islands. |
| World War II begins | 1940 |
| Selective training and service act | 1940 draft |
| Lend-Lease Act | March 1941 America would let britain obtain all the US arms it needed on credit. |
| Atlantic Charter | 1940ish. Churchill and Roosevelt drew up peace objectives for when war ended. peace would include self-determination for all people, no territorial expansion, and free trade. |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941. Government officials knew that an attack somewhere in the pacific was imminent because they had broken the Japanese codes. They did not know the exact target and date for the attack which many felt would be in the philippines, dutch east indies, or malaya. air raid. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944. Largest invasion by sea in history. On Normandy coast. successful attack. the allied offensive moved rapitdly to roll back german occupying forces. paris was later liberated. |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1944 Germany tried to counterattack the allied troops' push toward berlin. americans were temporarily set back but then resumed their advance. |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 turning point of world war 2. the interception and decoding of japanese messages enable us forces to destroy four japanese carriers and 300 planes. |
| Yalta | Feb. 1945 the big three (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) conferred at this place. it was a town on the black sea coast of the Soviet Union. germany would be divided into occupation zones. free elections in the liberated countries of eastern europe. soviets would enter war against japan. soviets would control the southern half of stuff. a new world peace organization formed at san francisco conference. |
