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On May 10, 1924, 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. As Director, Mr. Hoover put into effect a number of institutional changes to correct criticisms made of his predecessor's administration. -
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical and political manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, his political ideology, and his future plans for Germany and the world -
The 1929 stock market crash, culminating in the "Black Tuesday" collapse on October 29, is widely considered the event that triggered the Great Depression, though economists debate its precise role. It marked the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and exposed deeper flaws within the U.S. economy, plunging the country and the world into a prolonged economic crisis. -
The persistent dry weather caused crops to fail, leaving the plowed fields exposed to wind erosion. The Great Plains' fine soil eroded easily and was carried east by strong continental winds. The first recorded dust storm occurred on September 14, 1930. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. He was named to the position by President Paul von Hindenburg -
Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected President of the United States on November 8, 1932, defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover. He campaigned on a promise of a "New Deal" to address the country's severe economic struggles during the Great Depression and began his term on March 4, 1933. His election marked the end of a long period of Republican presidential dominance -
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. -
He made a comeback, and in 1935 he fought Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship and won. For this unlikely feat he was given the nickname "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon. Braddock was managed by Joe Gould. -
The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a key part of the Second New Deal. -
Berlin hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad. These Games are historically significant as they were used by the Nazi regime for propaganda purposes, attempting to showcase a new, strong Germany. The event is also remembered for the achievements of African-American athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals, and for introducing the first televised Olympic broadcasts -
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. -
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 Literature in 1962. -
The Wizard of Oz” premiered on 15 August 1939 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, later premiered in New York, and opened across the country on August 25th. But the GATEWAY Theatre in Kenosha premiered it before them all -
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. -
The "Four Freedoms" speech, delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, outlined four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The speech aimed to build support for Great Britain and its allies against the Axis powers and to define America's war aims as the defense of these universal principles.