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FOMC sets a target federal funds rate eight times a year, based on prevailing economic conditions. The federal funds rate can influence short-term rates on consumer loans and credit cards as well as impact the stock market.
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The British authorities conducted their first census in Palestine in 1922. There were 680,000 Arabs and 84,000 Jews. The Jews were just 12% of the Arab population. Those numbers increased due to large migration in the following decades. The GDP of the Jewish economy in 1922 was just 25% of that of the Arab GDP, but the Jewish standard of living measured in GDP per capita was twice that of the Arab. In that year, too, Jewish immigration was limited by the British, but the measure would be soon reversed.
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Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II contributed to the start of the Cold War.
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The Cuban Revolution brought Fidel Castro, as a head of the 26th of July Movement (M-26-7), which initiated and lead the Revolution, to the position of the leader of Cuba, along with the communist government he was part of.
The murder in the town of Serajevo (at that time in Serbia and today in Bosnia) of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) by a serbian natioalist (Gavrilo Princip). This act set in motion a chain reaction of declarations of war between European nations.
Austria declared war on Serbia but Russia supported Serbia and came to help against Austria. Germany had to help Austria against Russia but France, worried about the German intervention, declared war so that Germany invaded Belgium and Holland (neutral) to bypass the Maginot Line (a chain of fortified stronghold on the border of France with Germany) to try to reach Paris. At this point England intervened to help France and declared war as well.
