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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 -
This is an autobiographical written by Adolf Hitler about his struggles through his life -
The stock market crash of 1929 caused the Great Depression because everyone lost money. Investors and businesses both put significant amounts of money into the market and tremendous amounts of money were lost when it crashed -
Started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade and made long-term economic impacts -
FDR was first elected to office in 1932 -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party -
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program -
Franklin D. Roosevelt created the WPA with an executive order on May 6, 1935. It was part of his New Deal plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression -
he outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City -
The 1936 Olympic Games were fraught with controversy. Nazi's persecution of Jews sparked a widespread movement in the U.S. to boycott the Olympics -
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 -
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 officially premiered in Hollywood on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre -
Invasion of Poland, attack on Poland by Nazi Germany that marked the start of World War II -
The freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear - symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years