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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover is a legend to the FBI, he personally shaped American criminal justice in the 20th century. He has a whole building named after him and his work. He had dirt on everybody and was amazing in his field -
Mein Kampf is Published
Adolf Hitler's autobiography published for all the public to read. This book explained his plans to be harshly anti-Semitic for the next incoming years. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
The great depression did not just effect America, it effected the entire world, it opened with a net loss of 11% -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was voted in by the Nazi party, and he earned those votes by making Nazism a full movement, while the great depression was at its peak. -
CCC is Created
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public voluntary system to help relieve the unemployed, which helped thousands of young men work on environmental projects -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The "dirty thirties" lasted a full decade, A wall of blowing sand and dust started in the Oklahoma Panhandle and spread east. As many as three million tons of topsoil are estimated to have blown towards that town. -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Hitler was paranoid about being captured by German military and with his back against the wall, he and his lover, alone in a room, took cyanide pills and only one gunshot was heard, Hitler painted the wall with his brains. -
WPA is Created
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to lift our country from the depression by making tons of associations and orders to help the people and the WPA is the Works progress administration, which just made public projects to give people jobs -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
After his fights and his injuries he had to work in the docks because he couldn't do anything anymore -
Olympic Games in Berlin
While the olympics was happening behind the scenes it was actually a coup for the Nazi, because it was a perfect place to show Hitler's reign to everyone else there -
Kristallnacht
The night of broken glass, a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party and the German authorities refused to intervine -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
This book is about the great depression and how it was for farmers and what it did to them and how the government treated them -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
This was one of the first of 25 films to ever be put on the National Film Registry, which is reserved for culturally or historically significant movies. -
Germany Invades Poland
This is the event that kicked off WWII, they invaded through the capital almost instantly after they got through the border -
The Battle of Britain
The Germans started attacking the British coastal and its shipping operations -
The Four Freedoms Speech
Roosevelt's State of the Union Address whch was a powerful speech to make the people less fearful of the econmy -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise attack from the Japanese, and it was important because the Americans were careless about their most useful and important military weaponry -
The Battle of Midway
Because of the doolittle raid, it caused the Japanese to want to push back the America in the Pacific Ocean so they decided to attack the American base at Midway Island. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
This was the bloodiest battle still to this day in history, nearly 2 million people died including civilians. It was also a turning point as hitler admitted defeat in that battle. -
Operation Torch
This was an invasion led by the Allied forces on French North Africa, and this was the first time that the British and Americans worked together. -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
This is an international group that worked under Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections to help protect cultural property. -
The Battle of Kursk
The soviets won this battle with the German's defeating Hitler's desire to conquer Russia and the german people realizing he's a lunatic. Russia lost 1,500 tanks in that war alone. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings was the biggest seaborne invasion in history, and helped loosen Hitler's grip on Europe -
The Battle of the Bulge
In the battle, Hitler launched a surprise attack attempting to break up America, Britain and France individually but the German's were forced to withdraw -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles of WW|| and it lasted five weeks, the whole battle started because it served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers -
The Battle of Okinawa
Operation Iceberg was so important because once they overtook it, it would provide Allied forces an airbase from which bombers could strike Japan -
The Death of FDR
President FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage due to his decaying state and age, as well as that he also died in office after newly elected into his 4th term. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The first and only time nuclear weaponry was used in armed combat, and killed countless lives of civillians and innocents as well as their military. -
Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
America is kinda like the kid who kicked sand in the other's eyes and then said they can't do it back. The only time nuclear weaponry was used in military combat, and the two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians -
Nixon-Kennedy Debates
There is a divide between who won initially, because back then many people still didn't have a TV but the one who did said Kennedy won because of his composure, and you can only tell by seeing it. Other than TV people used radios and most of them said Nixon. After seeing the debate people could see Nixon sweat and fidget while Kennedy was calm and cool -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
In Dallas Texas, Kennedy was doing a ride around Dallas as a presidential thingie, and he was actually shot twice instead of once like many say. He was shot in the neck and then in the skull, which came clean off and his wife grabbed it. -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
A record breaking live appearance on the show and had Seventy-three million people tuned in, and the first song they played was all my loving -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This is the thing that started the Vietnam war and it makes my blood boil to this day its so lame, they just wanted an excuse to go war and kill innocents because of missile that didn't even connect to the ships, they don't even know if it was missiles and they still chose to have an incredibly long war over nothing and have thousand killed and filled with cancer. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
A bombing campaign that failed. it did not achieve its stated goal of compelling the North Vietnamese to do our will, because they were able rebuild our destruction we did within only days -
March on the Pentagon
This was a rally against the Vietnam war, that lasted all night. The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. Later about 50,000 people marched across the city to The Pentagon. -
Mai Lai Massacre
A violent act committed The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War, A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people in the village. -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
Another protest against the Vietnam war, but overall was to make awareness towards the president that they aren't happy about it. Still recovering from Martin's assassination, they're furious. An boy did everyone know. -
Newport Jazz Festival
This date is important because this is the first time they've ever implemented rock into their festival. They fused jazz, soul, rock music and their respective audiences together. -
Woodstock
Half a million hippies gathered in Bethel, NY. And as that was happening there was the Vietnam war and many opposed it. It was around the era of protest and fighting back, and al the musicians that were there also had the same beliefs and it was a huge opportunity to spread that love and unity. -
Chicago 8 Trial
On the twenty-third-floor courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman. The 300 members of the panel of jurors were overwhelmingly white, middle-class and middle-aged. They were the first people tried under the first federal anti-riot law. -
The Beatles Break Up
They broke up because there wasn't strong managerial leadership, causing them to tear themselves apart, with money problems, Yoko, and Allen Klein -
Kent State Protest
Kent State students held an anti-war protest and they clashed with clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen and four got shot. Leading down to a huge divide in the anti war protests -
Roe vs. Wade
The Court ruled that the Constitution protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without government restriction. (i don't have the energy to go into how wrong the current congress is about it but you know its trash) -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President
Roosevelt's presidency began in the midst of the Great Depression, and did the best he could by providing relief to the unemployed while seeking economic recovery.