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J. Edgar Hoover Becomes Hea of the FBI
Hooverfirst became involved in law enforcement as a special assistant to the attorney general, overseeing the mass roundups and deportations of suspected communists during the Red Scare abuses of the late 1910s. After taking over the FBI in 1924, Hoover began secretly monitoring any activities that did not conform to his American ideal. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Mein Kampf was written by Adolf Hitler. It outlined his plans to return Germany to glory. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust bowl was caused by the droughts in the Great Plains. It created storms that swept dust from Oklahoma to New York. -
Frankling Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
FDR beats Herbert Hoover in the election of 1932. He promises the American people a “New Deal” -
Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler the new chancellor of Germany. -
CCC is Created
One of the first New Deal programs. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. -
WPA is Created
Congress votes to approve the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a central part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” -
J.J. Braddock Wins HEavyweight Boxing Title
J.J. Braddock, a huge underdog, wins the boxing title from Max Baer. His dramatic comeback story imspired the nation. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Berlin Olympics were the XI Summer Games. This last from the first to the sixteenth. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich and contiued til the next the day and known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The classes children’s movie debuts on the big screen in 1939. One of the first movies to use color, it is still considered a classic today. -
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 1962 -
Germany Invades Poland
Also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany. This was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
