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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
He was a United States government official who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 until he died in 1972. He built the agency into a highly effective and occasionally controversial federal law enforcement arm. Hoover collected confidential, personal info from citizens, and the gov branches, and critics charged that Hoover used this information to embarrass, threaten, and blackmail potential adversaries and politicians he did not support. -
Mein Kampf is published
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, his political ideology, and his plans for Germany and the world. It had a total of 720 pages in the book. He wrote it in prison were he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 caused the Great Depression because everyone lost money. Investors and businesses both put significant amounts of money into the market and when it crashed, tremendous amounts of money were lost. Businesses closed and people lost their savings. it dropped from $64 million to about $30 million as over half is value down the drain. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
Also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931. taking dirt from Colorado all the way east to Washington, DC. Animals died without enough crops to feed them, and the price of food went up again. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was sworn in as the chancellor of Germany. The impact of the Depression, the weaknesses of Weimar democracy, and the strengths of the Nazi party was the rise to chancellor. No other leader able to command sufficient support to govern so Hitler was up. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
President Roosevelt was elected after the assassination of president McKinley. He was the youngest president in the nations history. As he had made a desicions that made a big endent in todays history and it makes it one of the greatest presidents. Roosevelt issued a profusion of executive orders. The Emergency Banking Act helped put an end to a run on banks, while the 1933 Banking Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 provided major reforms in the financial sector. -
CCC is Created
Allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America's public lands, forests, and parks. The program's goal was to conserve the country's natural resources while providing jobs for young men. Life in the camps brought tangible benefits to the health, educational level, and employment expectancies of almost three million young Americans, and it also gave immediate financial aid to their families. -
WPA is Created
The WPA was designed to provide relief for the unemployed by providing jobs and income for millions of Americans. At its height in late 1938, more than 3.3 million Americans worked for the WPA. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
During the fight, a dogged Braddock took a few heavy hits from the powerful younger champion, but Braddock kept coming, wearing down Baer, who seemed perplexed by Braddock's ability to take a punch. In the end, the judges gave Braddock the title with a unanimous decision. He outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City, until June 22, 1937, when he was knocked out by Joe Louis. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The event was held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere, occurring just two years after Adolf Hitler became Führer. His regime took advantage of the worldwide publicity to transform the 1936 Games into a spectacle of Nazi propaganda. The Berlin Games are best remembered for Adolf Hitler's failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
The novel tells the story of the Joad family who travels to California from Oklahoma because landlords evicted tenant farmers due to the drought and dust storms. A poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The film's success paved the way for the widespread adoption of color in filmmaking, ultimately influencing cinema's visual language. “The Wizard of Oz” is credited for its use of Technicolor, but it was not the first color film. Many short films experimented with color. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish, fled the German advance hoping the Polish army could halt the German advance. Hitler had attacked Poland because he wanted Germans to live there. The attack on Poland was an initial victory for Germany that surpassed the staff's initial expectations. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
As America entered the war these “four freedoms” the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years to a war-wearied people because they knew they were fighting for freedom.