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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover as acting director of the bureau -
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
the stock market crashed, wiping out billions of dollars of wealth and heralding the Great Depression known as Black Thursday -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl also known as the Dirty Thirties started in 1930 and lasted for about a decadev -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
the year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany spurred largely by the German people frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treat -
CCC is Created
the civilian conservation corps was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed -
WPA is Created
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 -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The 1936 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad German: Spiele der XI Olympiad and commonly known as Berlin 1936. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories and this event came to be called Kristallnacht -
Germany Invades Poland
The invasion of Poland was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany the Slovak Republic and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
it evokes the harshness of the Great Depression and arouses sympathy for the struggles of migrant farmworkers -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
the Wizard of Oz which will become one of the best-loved movies in history -
The Four Freedoms Speech
four essential human freedoms included some phrases already familiar to Americans from the Bill of Rights -
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and often referred to by his initials FDR was an american politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd president of the United State