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Question: What was the political movement happening in the 1920's/1930's!?(10 points!)!?
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War, peace and politics
Social issues of the 1920s

Vladimir Lenin in 1920!. He was the leading figure of the Communist movement until his death in 1924!.Rise of communism after World War I
The Red Scare in the United States (1920-1921)
In the United States, peak of the Ku Klux Klan (about five million members)
In the United States, KKK auxiliaries established!.
Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and Irish Civil War (1922-23)
The Irish Free State gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
Marie C!. Brehm becomes temperance movement leader!.
Turkish War of Independence
Moderation League of New York worked for repeal of prohibition!.
Polish-Soviet war
First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom
Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war
Prohibition leaders were at the height of their power!.
The Qajar dynasty ended under Ahmad Shah Qajar and Reza Shah Pahlavi formed the Pahlavi Dynasty, which would later become the last monarchy of Iran!.
Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, a book that foreshadows many of the events in the 1930s!.
Mussolini became Italy's Prime Minister and started a fascist dictatorship!.
Women in the United States received the right to vote following the passage of the 19th amendment!.

1930s

The Great Depression occurred during the 1930s!.
Economic interventionist policies increase in popularity as a result of the Great Depression in both authoritarian and democratic countries!. In the western world, Keynesianism replaces classical economic theory!.
Rapid industrialization takes place in the Soviet Union!.

The Chaco War takes place from 1932 to 1935 between Bolivia and Paraguay over the disputed territory of Gran Chaco resulting in an overall Paraguayan victory in 1935!. An agreement dividing the territory was made in 1938, officially ending outstanding differences and bringing an official "peace" to the conflict!.

Franklin D!. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States in November 1932!. Roosevelt initiates a widespread social welfare strategy called the "New Deal" to combat the economic and social devastation of the Great Depression!. The economic agenda of the "New Deal" was a radical departure from previous laissez-faire economics!.

Canada and other countries under the British Empire sign the Statute of Westminster in 1931 establishing effective parliamentary independence of Canada from the parliament of the United Kingdom!.
United States Marine Corps general Smedley Butler confesses to the U!.S!. Congress in 1934 that a group of industrialists contacted him, requesting his aide to overthrow the U!.S!. government of Roosevelt and establish what he claimed would be a fascist regime in the United States!.

Newfoundland voluntarily returns to British colonial rule in 1934 amid its economic crisis during the Great Depression with the creation of the Commission of Government, a non-elected body!.
Canadian Prime Minister W!. L!. Mackenzie King meets with German Führer Adolf Hitler in 1937 in Berlin!. King is the first and only North American head of government to meet with Hitler!.
Multiple countries in the Americas including Canada, Cuba, and the United States controversially deny asylum to hundreds of Jewish German refugees on the SS St!. Louis who are fleeing Germany in 1939 which under the Nazi regime was pursuing a racist agenda of anti-Semitic persecution!. In the end, no country accepted the refugees and the ship returns to Germany with most of its passengers onboard, while some commit suicide based on the prospect of returning to Nazi-run Germany!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

woman's suffrage - 19th ammendment passed Aug 26, 1920!.Www@QuestionHome@Com