Great Depression

  • Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is Published
    Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, his political ideology and future plans for Germany and the world. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.
  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in late 1929. It 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 Begins
    The immediate cause of the dust storms was the drought that began in the prairie states in 1931, when a lack of rain contributed to a decade-long dry spell.
  • Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time) (1932)

    Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time) (1932)
    Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States four times: 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944.
  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
    It took the economic and political instability (with two more chancellors failing to stabilise the situation) to worsen, and the support of the conservative elite, to convince Hindenburg to appoint Hitler. Hitler was sworn in as the chancellor of Germany on the 30 January 1933. The Nazis were now in power.
  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created
    Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. The CCC or C's as it was sometimes known, allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America's public lands, forests, and parks.
  • J. Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J. Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
    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.
  • WPA is Created

    WPA is Created
    What Was the WPA? 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.
  • J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
    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

    Olympic Games in Berlin
    The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The event was held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere, occurring just two years after Adolf Hitler became Führer. His regime took advantage of the worldwide publicity to transform the 1936 Games into a spectacle of Nazi propaganda
  • Kristallnacht

    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.
  • Wizard of Oz Premieres in Movie Theaters

    Wizard of Oz Premieres in Movie Theaters
    After three test previews in Wisconsin and Massachusetts, The Wizard of Oz officially premiered in Hollywood on August 15, 1939. This was followed by a New York City premiere two days later and then a national opening on August 25.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    The invasion lasted from September 1 to October 5, 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).
  • Grapes of Wrath is Published

    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.
  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech
    The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941