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| War Debts and Reparations |
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| The Germans believed that war reparations set at 33billion $ by the Treaty of Versailles, not only unfairly punished the losers of the conflict but, by debt, also deprived them of the very means to repay. Herbert and Charles Dawes created the Dawes plan which reducecd Germany's debt and also allowed them to make reparation payments to France and Great Britain. |
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| Hoover spoke of creating an associative state in which the government would encourage voluntary corporation among corporations, consumers, workers, farmers, and small business men. |
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| Prohibition (supported by...) |
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a coalition of women's temperance groups, middle class progressives, and rural Protestants, hailed the new law as a "noble experiment"
Definition- the culmination of a long campaign that associated drinking with the degradation of working class family life and the worst evils of urban politics |
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| In 1928, with great fan fair, the US and 62 other nations signed the pact of Paris (Better known as Kellog-Briand Pact for the US secretary of state Frank B Kellog and French Foreign minister Aristide Briand who initialled it) which grandly and nively renounced war in principle |
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| Efforts to limit Mexican immigration |
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| In large numbers of Protestant churches, congregations focused less on religious practice and worship than on social and reform activities in the larger community |
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| The Scopes "monkey trial"- so called because fundamentalists trivialized Darwin's theory into a claim that humans were descended from monkeys- became one of the most publicized and definitive moments of the decade. |
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| Interior Secretary Alber Fall received hundreds of thousands of dollars when he secretly leased navy oil reserves in Tea Pot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California to two private oil developers |
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| Interior Secretary Alber Fall received hundreds of thousands of dollars when he secretly leased navy oil reserves in Tea Pot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California to two private oil developers |
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| Interior Secretary Alber Fall received hundreds of thousands of dollars when he secretly leased navy oil reserves in Tea Pot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California to two private oil developers |
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| In many cities new immigrants became the numerical majority and dominated political nd social institutions. |
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