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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. -
An autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. -
During the stock market crash of 1929, investors and businesses invested significant amounts of money in the market, which they lost when it crashed. -
lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. -
A series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. -
Roosevelt defeated President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory. -
To recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation's forests, parks, and fields. -
It was part of his New Deal plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels. -
Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the in what was called "the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan by Jim Corbett". -
Berlin Olympic Games were more than just a worldwide sporting event, they were a show of Nazi propaganda, stirring significant conflict. -
The Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung. -
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. -
The film opened in wide release on August 25; however, as is often the case with major motion pictures, there are test, promotional, press and other types of screenings prior to the wide release. -
German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein sounded the attack with predawn shelling. -
The freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear.