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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. -
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, ideology, and future plans for Germany and the world. -
The "Great Depression " was a severe, worldwide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929. The causes of the Great Depression varied, but the impact was visible across the country. -
When Was the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. -
Hitler was sworn in as the chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. The Nazis were now in power. -
Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program for unemployed men and women. -
FDR issued Executive Order 7034, establishing the Works Progress Administration. The WPA superseded the work of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which was dissolved. -
J.J. Braddock was an American world heavyweight boxing champion from June 13, 1935, when he outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City -
Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals in Germany in front of Adolf Hitler. -
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. -
The Grapes of Wrath has captured the American imagination, pulling back the curtain on a way of life that most of us could scarcely imagine, and showing us the powerful ways that literature can touch society. -
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America shall fight Germany to the DEATH! -
This speech became known as his "Four Freedoms Speech" due to a short closing portion in which he described his vision for extending American ideals throughout the world.