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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
By the end of the year he was officiallypromoted to director. Thisbegan his 48-year tenure in power, during which time he personally shaped American criminal justice in the 20th century. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Mein Kampf is an autobiography by the leader Adolf Hitler, and he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. Panic set in, and on October 24, Black Thursday, a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. Investment companies and leading bankers attempted to stabilize the market by buying up great blocks of stock, producing a moderate rally on Friday. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
FDR beats Hoover and Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
CCC is Created
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was primarily designed to put thousands of unemployed young men to work on useful public projects. -
WPA is Created
On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
James J Braddock earned his nickname, Cinderella Man, from his seemingly fairytale like rise from a poor local fighter to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. And also fight to get money and was pretty good at boxing -
Olympic Games in Berlin
Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s antisemitic and racist policies as well as Germany’s growing militarism. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night and a other name for it is The Night of Broken Glass. -
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, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The Wizard of Oz is the first movie to be in color. -
Germany Invades Poland
erman forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
Franklin Roosevelt was elected president for an unprecedented third term in 1940 because at the time the world faced unprecedented danger, instability, and uncertainty. Much of Europe had fallen to the advancing German Army and Great Britain was barely holding its own.
