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J. Edgar Hoover became the acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI) on May 10, 1924, and was appointed its official Director by the end of the year, beginning his 48-year tenure.
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It is an autobiographical and political manifesto by nazi party leader Adolf hitler.
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The stock market crash of October 1929, also known as the Great Crash, marked the beginning of the Great Depression Triggered by excessive market speculation and an overheated economy, the crash wiped out billions of dollars in wealth and sent the United States economy into a downward spiral that lasted for a decade.
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It began in the early 1930s when a combination of severe drought and poor farming practices led to massive dust storms on the Great Plains.
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He was elected in 1932 defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover amidst the Great Depression.
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He was chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg.
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New Deal public works program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to provide jobs for unemployed young men during the Great Depression
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(WPA) was a U.S. government agency, created in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to provide jobs during the Great Depression.
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J.J. Braddock won the heavyweight boxing title by outpointing Max Baer in a stunning upset on June 13, 1935, earning the nickname "Cinderella Man".
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They were a propaganda event for adolf hitlers nazi regime that was sought to project an image of a peaceful progressive Germany while downplaying its racist ideology.
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Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass was a coordinated, violent anti-Jewish pogrom that took place throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on November 9–10, 1938.Led by Nazi officials and paramilitary forces, the attacks resulted in the murder of nearly 100 Jews the burning of hundreds of synagogues and the destruction of thousands of Jewish-owned businesses.
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tells the story of the Joad family, who are forced to leave their Oklahoma farm during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression to find work in California.
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Using a new tactic of combined air and armored assaults, the German military quickly defeats the Polish forces, with the capital city of Warsaw surrendering on September 27, 1939.
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The Wizard of Oz premiered in theaters on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. Its nationwide release followed on August 25, 1939.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined four essential human freedoms for a post-war world: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.