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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by leader of the Nazis Adolf Hitler -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
Stocks began to decline and every started losing their money in stocks, which lead to the greta depression. Banks lost all their money from loaning people money, that they would put into stocks. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl happened because the land was so dry that the wind picked up the dust, and there was so much dust and dry dirt that it made what looks like a sand storm in a way. this happened off and on for more than a decade. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover in a landslide for his first presidential election -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 which empowered the Nazis. -
CCC is Created
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary public work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 -
WPA is Created
FDR created WPA to help pull America 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. Nobody expected him to win but he came out and shocked the world -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The 1936 Olympics were held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere. The games had very any racist policies, since Hitler didn't like colored people he made Germany have many colored policies. -
Kristallnacht
The Kristallnacht 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
This is a novel written in 1939 -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
One of the most beloved in history was put in theaters in 1939. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany invading Poland was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was when Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
The four freedoms in FDRs speech were Freedom of speech · Freedom of worship · Freedom from want · Freedom from fear. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack on our naval fleet in Honolulu Hawaii. The Japanese launched their planes at us and took out most of our heavy hitting ships. This is what brought us into the war -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a key battle to secure dominance in the Pacific in World War II. This took place 6 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was when the germans and their allies took on the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad Russia -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
This is to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II -
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front -
D-Day (June 6th, 1944)
This was when the allied forces invaded France. This day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. -
The Death of FDR
FDR died from a stroke at the age of 63 -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf was held up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. This led to the surrender of Nazi Germany -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, -
Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945