The Great Depression

By Landon Feeler

  • J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
    Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover acting director of the Bureau, and by the end of the year Mr. Hoover was named Director.

  • WPA is Created

    WPA is Created
    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.

  • 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.

  • The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl Begins
    The Dust Bowl started in the 1930's, it was a severe drought that hit the Midwest which combined with non-sustainable agriculture which made huge dust storms This caused diseases and death.

  • Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)

    Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
    FDR was first inaugurated as 32nd President on March 4, 1933. The date of March 4 was set by the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
    The stock market crash of October 1929 led directly to the Great Depression in Europe. When stocks plummeted on the New York Stock Exchange, the world noticed immediately.

  • Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany

    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. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945.

  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created
    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 17–28.

  • J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
    J.J Braddock 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.

  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin
    The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. This event was politically tense because 2 years before Adolf Hitler became Führer. The athletes wanted to go to show the best way to beat the Nazis was in the Olympic arena.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    This was also known as the Night of Broken Glass, this was a pogrom against the Jews that was carried out by the Nazi Party. They destroyed buildings, homes, and glass from windows.

  • 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.

  • Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

    Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
    The Wizard of Oz officially premiered in Hollywood on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The field opened in wide release on August 25.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    Hitler had attacked Poland because he wanted Germans to live there. He considered the Polish people inferior and only fit as a work force.

  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech
    The Four Freedom Speech, the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear, this speech emphasizes the value of individual freedom.