The Great Depression

By traytoncoats

  • J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
    J. Edgar Hoover was appointed as the director of the FBI for about 48 years. Hoover had secret files on pretty much everyone, so he had some power.

  • Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is Published
    Mein Kampf was a book the Hitler wrote while he was in prison. Mein Kampf means My Struggles.

  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
    The stock market crashed after people were buying stock with credit, and everyone lost money a lot of businesses shut down, and people weren't able to find work, and couldn't afford to live. People had to fight to survive, it was a really rough thing to live through.

  • The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl Begins
    The Dust Bowl was created due to severe drought and years of bad farming habits. The Dust Bowl lasted for about a decade.

  • Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)

    Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
    Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover by a landslide in the election.

  • Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
    Hitler became chancellor in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi party. Hitler would then keep his position as chancellor till 1945 when he committed suicide.

  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created
    The CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps was created to recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation's forests, parks, and fields.

  • WPA is Created

    WPA is Created
    FDR created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) It was part of the New Deal plan to lift the country. The WPA employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

  • J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
    Braddock was a famous boxer, who outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City.

  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin
    Berlin was chosen as the site for the Olympics before the Nazi party had risen to power, and the Nazi's persecution of Jews sparked a widespread movement in the U.S. to boycott the Olympics. Also a guy named Jesse Owens won 4 golden medals in front of Hitler, and Hitler was not happy.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Kristallnacht also known as The Night of Broken Glass 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.

  • Grapes of Wrath is Published

    Grapes of Wrath is Published
    The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel that was written by John Steinbeck and was published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was also cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

  • Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

    Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
    The film was opened in wide release on August 25. This is often the case with major motion pictures, there are test, promotional, press, and other types of screenings before they did a wide release.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    The invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany marked the start of World War 2. German forces launched surprise attacks on Poland. The Invasion lasted for about a month.

  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech
    The Four Freedoms Speech was 4 goals articulated by FDR. These 4 freedoms are freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.