The great depression

By Yariane

  • J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J. Edgar Hoover was a United States government official who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.

  • Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)

    In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover in one of the largest landslide victories in US history.

  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Institutions and financiers stepped in with bids above the market price to stem the panic, and the losses on that day were modest, with stocks bouncing back over the next two days.

  • The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Many people including childrens have died during the Dust Bowl.

  • 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.

  • CCC is Created

    The CCC was part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.

  • 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 underdog in what was called "the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan by Jim Corbett".

  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    The Nazi Party had risen to power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games, and its racist policies led to international debate about a boycott of the Games.

  • 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.

  • Grapes of Wrath is Published

    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.

  • Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

  • 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.

  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt "four essential human freedoms" included some phrases already familiar to Americans from the Bill of Rights, as well as some new phrases: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.