civics

  • Motion Picture Prodcution Code

    The motion picture production code becomes set of indusrty censorship guiedlines governing production of the vast majority of United States, motion pictures released by major studios; is effevctive for 38 years.
  • Empire State building opens in New York

    The empire state building is generally thought of as an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the American society of civil engineers.
  • Stimson Doctrine

    The Stimson Doctrine is a policy of the United States federal government, enunciated in a note of January 7, 1932, to Japan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were execuled by force. The Doctrine was application of the principle of ex injuria jus non oritur
  • 20th Amendment

    20th amendment, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices on January 2o; the twentieth amendment to the United States constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4th to January 20th, and of members of congress from March 4th to january 3rd
  • Glass-Stegall act

    Glass-Stegall act usually refers to four provisions of the U.S banking act of 1933 that limited commercial bank sercurities activities and affilations within commercial banks and sercurities firms . Congressional efforts to "repeal the Glass-stegall act" referred to those four provisions.
  • Works Progress administration

    The workers progress administrartion was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency. Employing millions of unemployed [people to carry out publuic works projects including the construction of public buildings and roads.
  • Robinson-Patman Act

    The Robinson-Pactman Act of 1936 is a United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination. It grew out practices in which chain stores were allowed to purchase goods at lower prices than other retailers,. An amendment to the dayton antitrust act, it prevented unfair price discrimination for the first time, by requiring that the sellers offer the same price terms to customers at a given level to trade.
  • Nazi Germany Invades Poland

    The invasion of Poland, also known as the september campaign or 1939 defensive war in Poland and the Poland campaign or fall Weib in Germany, was an invasion of poland by germany, the soviet union began on September 1st 1939, one week after the signing of the molotov-ribbentrop, while the soviet invasion. Commenced on september 17th following the molotor-togo agreement.
  • Lend-Lease

    The lend-lease policy, formality titled an act to further promote the defense of the United States, was a program under which the United States supplied great britain, the USSR, Free france the republic of China, and other allied nations with material between 1941 and august 1945. It was signed into law on march 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of world war 2 in Europe in September 1939 and nine months before the U.S entered the war in December 1941