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J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
he was most known for his powerful right hand, solid chin and comeback from a floundering career. He had lost several fights due to hand injuries and was forced to work on the dock. -
J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover is named acting directorof the Bureau of Investigation(now the FBI) in 1924 By the end of the year he was officiallypromoted to director. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Adolf Hitler’s philosophical autobiography, a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. The book sold a total of 9,473 copies in its first year. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. After Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl was Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Roosevelt helped the people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
This is when Hitler really started to take power. A chancellor is kind of like a president in our country. -
CCC is Created
The Civilian Conservation Corps, a tool for employing young men and improving the government’s holdings of western land. -
WPA is Created
Works Progress Administrator. The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s antisemitic and racist policies as well as Germany’s growing militarism. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
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. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The Wizard of Oz is an American musical comedy-drama fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. One of the most well known movies. -
Germany Invades Poland
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech.
