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1923 -- French occupation of the Ruhr, to make up for unpaid German reparations.
1923 -- Sun Yatsen receives support from Soviet Russia. Koumintang (Nationalist Party of China) is reorganized along the lines of the Bolshevik system.
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1923 -- German citizens seek solution to runaway inflation; 35,000 join the Nazi Party. |
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1923 -- Treaty of Lausanne with Turkey. |
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March 1923 -- Victor McLaglen wins Best Actor award for his performance in "The Informer." |
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November 9, 1923 -- Hitler attempts to seize power in Munich, is arrested and tried for high treason and sentenced to five years in prison. He is released after eight months. |
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1924 -- Hitler is sent to jail for treason, writes Mein Kampf, "My Struggle," his view of the world, articulating his campaign against his archenemy, "The Jew." |
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1924 -- Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 fixed a 150,000 person quota on immigration in the US, giving favor to those who had " better" national origins. |
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January 1924 -- The death of Lenin.
January 1924 -- First National Congress of reorganized Koumintang takes place.
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October 1924 -- Hornsby of St. Louis wins the batting title for the National League with an average of .424; Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees wins the American League title with a .378 average. |
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Winter 1924 -- George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" in Manhattan's Aeolina Hall is considered the "Musical Event of the Decade."
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March 1925 -- Sun Yatsen dies suddenly. |
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May-June 1925 -- Student and worker demonstrations and strikes. Hong Kong's year-long strike damages British trade. |
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July 18, 1925 -- First edition of Mein Kampf is published. |
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October 16, 1925 -- Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other. |
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1926 -- Stalin establishes control in the U.S.S.R. |
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1926 -- 19 year old Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel in 14 hours, 31 minutes. |
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May 25, 1926 -- Sholom Schwarzband kills exiled Ukrainian Nationalist leader Simon Petlura. |
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1927 -- Charles A. Lindburgh flies from Long Island, New York to Paris in 35 and a half hours. |
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September 1927 -- Babe Ruth ends the season with a record 60 home runs. |
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1928 -- Adoption of the first Five-Year Plan in Communist Russia. |
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June 1928 -- Chang Kai Shek captures Peking, northern war lords in China are in submission after the "Northern Expedition." |
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June 19, 1928 -- Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean, the first woman to do so in a 21-hour flight to Wales. |
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November 7, 1928 -- Herbert Hoover wins the election for U.S. President. |
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1929 -- Wall Street crash plunges Germany into depression; Germans launch onto Hitler's Master Race plan.
1929 -- Nazi Party steadily rises to power through intimidation and subterfuge.
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1929 -- Lateran Treaties between Italy and the Papacy in Concordat of 1929. |
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March 1929 -- Hoover takes office as U.S. President. |
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October 1929 -- Stock market crashes, beginning of Depression years.
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1930 -- Search for the ninth planet ends with the discovery of Pluto on photographic plates. |
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January 1, 1930 -- Stormtroopers kill 8 Jews, the first victims of the Nazi era. |
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September 14, 1930 -- After stormtroopers terrorize political opponents, Nazi seats in Reichstag rise from 12 to 107. |
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October 1930 -- The World Series is won by the Philadelphia Athletics: 4-2.
Terry of the New York Giants wins the National League batting crown with an average of .401.
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September 1931 -- Japan invades Manchuria, after the Mukden incident |
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July 31, 1932 -- Nazi Party wins 230 seats in Reichstag and begins negotiations for Hitler to be accepted as Chancellor. |
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