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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. During this time, he built the agency into a highly effective, and occasionally controversial, arm of federal law enforcement. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Adolf Hitler published the book, Mein Kampf. He wrote this book while he was in prison because of a failed coup he attempted. In this book, he presented himself as the leader of the extreme right, and talked about his life. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 caused the Great Depression because everyone lost money. Investors and businesses both put significant amounts of money into the market and when it crashed, huge amounts of money had been lost. Businesses closed, and people lost their savings. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl was also known as the Dirty Thirties. This name was given because of the drought that happened in the southern plain regions of the United States. There was severe dust storms during that time in the 1930s. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. Former chancellor Franz von Papen as well as other conservative leaders persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to make Hitler as chancellor -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
When Franklin Roosevelt was elected President for the first time the U.S. was at the nadir of the worst depression in its history. This is because a quarter of the workforce was unemployed, and farmers were in deep trouble as prices had fallen by 60%. Industrial production had fallen by more than half since 1929. -
CCC is Created
CCC stands for the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages. -
WPA is Created
WPA also known as the Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
Madison Square Garden Bowl, Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World. He won a unanimous decision against heavyweight champion Max Baer. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Berlin Olympics were awarded to Germany before the Nazis came to power. However, in August 1936 they provided an opportunity for the Nazis to showcase Hitler's Third Reich to the 49 nations of the world competing for Olympic gold. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is also known as the Night of Broken Glass or the November pogrom. it was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary and Schutzstaffel paramilitary force. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The novel is about the migration of a dispossessed family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California and describes their subsequent exploitation by a ruthless system of agricultural economics. -
Germany Invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland can also be called the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939. This was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and marked the begging of World War II. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939 during the Great Depression and the turmoil caused by the rise of Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
The Four Freedoms Speech was Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address. During this speech, Roosevelt articulated a powerful vision for a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion. It helped change the world.