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Emergency Quota Act
This act was intended to temporarily limit the number of immigrants, specifically the large number of Jews fleeing from persecution overseas. Its purpose was to restrict the amount of undesirable immigrants and favored immigrants from western Europe. It added two features to the country's immigration laws, numerical limits and a quota system to set that limit, making it the most important turning point in the U.S. immigration policy -
Stalin Appointed
Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. -
Dawes Plan
A plan proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay. -
Wall Street Crash of 1929
This four day U.S. stock market crash contributed greatly to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent. -
Hitler Becomes Fuhrer of Germany
Hitler becomes Fuhrer, the supreme power of Germany, and has entire control of what happens and goes on inside of the borders of Germany. -
FDR's Second Inauguration
FDR begins his second term after winning the 1936 election by a landslide. -
Hossbach Conference
This conference was the turning point of Hitler's foreign policy and military strategy. It also outlined Hitler's expansionist policies. -
WWII Commences
The second World War begins after Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Hitler Wins France
German forces advanced through Europe and took France through a massive siege and several battles. Over the course of six weeks the allied forces were unable to stop their advance. -
Russia Enters WWII
Hitler terminated his pact with the Russians by launching Operation Barbarossa, an axis assault on Soviet-Help Territories. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The event that makes the United States join the second world war. This was an attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces.