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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover is named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation, building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency -
mein kampf is published
July 18, 1925
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was part autobiography and part political treatise. Mein Kampf which means "My Struggle -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
Black Thursday," when the market opened 11% lower than the previous day's close.The 1930s in the United States began with an historic low: more than 15 million Americans–fully one-quarter of all wage-earning workers–were unemployed -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. -
1st time Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President
In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover in a landslide. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States. The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions. -
CCC is Created
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects. combined FDR's interests in conservation and universal service for youth -
WPA is Created
The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, designed to provide relief for the unemployed by providing jobs and income for millions of Americans. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
on June 13, 1935, at Madison Square Garden Bowl, Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog in what was called "the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan by Jim Corbett". Braddock then fought John Henry Lewis, a future light heavyweight champion. He won in one of the most important fights of his career -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Olympic Games were a propaganda success for the Nazi government. Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes -
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 paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
it illustrates the need Americans felt for escape during the Great Depression. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. evokes the harshness of the Great Depression and arouses sympathy for the struggles of migrant farmworkers. -
Germany Invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. Germany's ability to combine air power and armor in a new kind of mobile warfare. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
The declaration of the Four Freedoms as a justification for war would resonate through the remainder of the war, and for decades longer as a frame of remembrance. 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