The Great Depression

  • J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
    Hooverfirst became involved in law enforcement, overseeing the mass roundups and deportations of suspected communists during the Red Scare abuses of the late 1910s, He began to start the FBI and started doing his own investigations despite how people didnt like how he done his work.
  • Mein Kampf published

    Mein Kampf published
    Autobiography of the founder of the National Socialist (Nazi) and dictator of Germany.
  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
    Black Tuesday Hit Wall Street as investors traded millons of shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors
  • Franklin Roosevelt is elected president (1st time)

    Franklin Roosevelt is elected president (1st time)
    He beats hoover in election in 1932. He promises the American people a new deal.
  • Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of  Germany
    Nazies won 37% of the vote in 1932. The largest single party in the Reichstag.
  • CCC is created

    CCC is created
    It was defined as the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was a public work relief program that operated from 1933-1942 for unemployed or unmarried men from relief families.
  • WPA is Created

    WPA is Created
    Created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Work Progress Administration was established of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 by the United States Congress.
  • Dust Bowl Begins

    Dust Bowl Begins
    As the Great Plains suffered through a drought, high winds carried topsoil from the Midwest to the East Coast. Many farmers lost their farms as crops failed.
  • Cindella Man- J.J Braddock wins heavyweight boxing title

    Cindella Man- J.J Braddock wins heavyweight boxing title
    He earned his name from his seemingly fairytale like rise from a poor local fighter to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. the stock market crash of 1929, Jim Braddock was down on his luck. He had a hard time struggling to win fights and put food on the table for his young family. On June 13th, 1935, in Long Island City, N.Y., Braddock, as a 10 to 1 underdog, won the heavyweight championship of the world from Max Baer.
  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin
    In 1936, Berlin won. Adof turned Germant inro a one dictatorship.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    A massive coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night and next day of, Novemeber 9, 1938. It can also be known as, "The night of broken glass."
  • Wizard of Oz permiers in movie theaters

    Wizard of Oz permiers in movie theaters
    Classic childrens movie in 1939. The first movie to use coor. It is still considered a classic today.
  • 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. It was about his family and how they had to leavr anf find work. This author made te story of how he struggled through life.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    German forces bombbard Poland on land and from air, as Adof Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. The German invasion of Poland also incudes on how Hitler intended to wage war which would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy.
  • The Four Freedom Speech

    The Four Freedom Speech
    in a speech to Congress, FDR begins to prepare to the United States to join WWII. The speech talked about the freedoms important to Americans.