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he was most known for his powerful right hand, solid chin and comeback from a floundering career. He had lost several fights due to hand injuries and was forced to work on the dock.
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J. Edgar Hoover is named acting directorof the Bureau of Investigation(now the FBI) in 1924 By the end of the year he was officiallypromoted to director.
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Adolf Hitler’s philosophical autobiography, a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. The book sold a total of 9,473 copies in its first year.
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On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. After Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression
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The Dust Bowl was Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor.
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Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Roosevelt helped the people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope.
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This is when Hitler really started to take power. A chancellor is kind of like a president in our country.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a tool for employing young men and improving the government’s holdings of western land.
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Works Progress Administrator. The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before.
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Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s antisemitic and racist policies as well as Germany’s growing militarism.
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A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
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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.
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The Wizard of Oz is an American musical comedy-drama fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. One of the most well known movies.
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At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
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The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech.
