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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C. on January 1, 1895. Upon completing high school, he began working at the Library of Congress and attending night classes at George Washington University Law School. In 1916, he was awarded his LL.B. and the next year his LL.M. -
Mein Kampf is Published
is an autobiography by the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Germany Invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German 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. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blo -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
CCC is Created
The Civilian Conservation Corps, a tool for employing young men and improving the government’s vast holdings of western land, is created in Washington, D.C. -
WPA is Created
was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people -
braddock win heavy weight boxing match
j bradock wins vs max baer inspres the nation in the grest depression -
Olympic Games in Berlin
Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda . 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 of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
wizard of oz premirers in theaters
the best year ever for movies it was one of the first movies in color and has became a classic today -
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 Awardand Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941
