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Mein Kampf is Published (1925)
Translated to my struggle, a book written by hitler during his sentence for a failed "coup" -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression (1929)
began in September with a sharp decline in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and ended in mid-November. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
the dust bowl was a series of sandstorms that destroyed the econemy and agriculture -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time) (1932)
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Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
Following several backroom negotiations – which included industrialists, Hindenburg's son, the former chancellor Franz von Papen, and Hitler – Hindenburg acquiesced and on 30 January 1933, he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor. -
CCC Created
The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 mandated that the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation's forests, parks, and fields. One of several prongs in the New Deal's attack on economic stagnation, President Franklin D. -
WPA is Created (1935)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the WPA with an executive order on May 6, 1935. It was part of his New Deal plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels. The unemployment rate in 1935 was at a staggering 20 percent -
J. Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI (1935)
After 11 years in the post, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI in June 1935, where he remained as director for an additional 37 years until his death in May 1972 – serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight Presidents. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title (1935)
Braddock (born June 7, 1905, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 29, 1974, North Bergen, New Jersey) was an American world heavyweight boxing champion from June 13, 1935, when 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 (1936)
10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games -
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 on 9–10 November 1938. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 -
Wizard of Oz Premieres in Movie Theaters (1939)
the first version of the movie came out -
Germany Invades Poland (1939)
As dawn broke on September 1, 1939, German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. The attack was sounded with the predawn shelling, by the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, of Polish fortifications at the Baltic port of Danzig (modern Dansk). -
The Four Freedoms Speech (1941)
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941.