1921-1941

  • National Socialists German Workers' Party

    A far-right political party created to pull workers away from communism. Hitler joined the party and became its leader in its founding year. Hitler was then appointed Chancellor of Germany and began his totalitarian reign known as the Third Reich.
  • Emergency Quota Act

    This act was intended to temporarily limit the number of immigrants in the face of 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 using a quota system to set that limit, making it the most important turning point in the U.S. immigration policy.
  • Joseph Stalin

    Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party.
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    President Calvin Coolidge

    After President Harding unexpectedly died in office, the
    Vice-President, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th U.S. President.
  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted to overthrow the Bavarian government. Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for treason but served less than one year of his sentence. The putsch and his trial catapulted Hitler into a national figure.
  • Beer Hall Putsch defeated

    This was a failed coup by the Nazi Party to overthrow the Bavarian government.
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    The act limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota, completely excluding Asian immigrants, was enacted on this date.
  • Dawes Plan

    This plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay.
  • President Coolidge Inauguration

    Coolidge became America's 30th president after winning the election
  • The Scopes Trial

    The state of Tennessee took John T. Scopes, a substitute teacher, to trial for violating the Butler Act when he taught evolution to his students.
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    Herbert Hoover becomes president

    Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States.
  • US Stock Market Crash

    This four day stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent.
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    FDR becomes president

    Franklin Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States. He served 4 terms as president and died in his fourth.
  • Hitler becomes Fuher

    Hitler becomes the supreme power of Germany and has entire control of what happens and goes on inside of the borders of Germany.
  • Rhine falls under German control

    During this year Germany advance and successfully took Rhineland.
  • Hossbach Conference

    This was the turning point for Hitler's foreign policy and military, and outlined Hitlers expansionist policies.
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    WWII

    This was the Second World War that started with France and Britain declaring war against Germany.
  • Soviets invade Finland

    The USSR invaded Finland because they had a stable economy and were growing fast at the time.
  • Hitler takes France

    Germany advances through Europe and takes France through a massive siege and several battles. Over the course of six weeks the allied forces were unable to stop their advance.
  • Battle of Britain

    This was a air battle between Germany and Britain, about 1,000 British aircraft were shot down while Germany had over 1,800.
  • Russia enters WWII

    Hitler terminated that pact by launching Operation Barbarossa, this was axis assault on Soviet-Help Territories.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The event that makes the United States join the second world war, this was an attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan through a coordinated airwave of Japanese bombers.