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Became Director of the FBI for 48 years.
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Book wrote by Adolf Hitler and is called in English "My Struggle"
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On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression (1929-39), the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.
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Was first time in office as president and helped to se the majority of WW2 and depression through.
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Formed in March 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, was one of the first New Deal programs. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor.
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Was a leader who got Germany to start WW2.
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As the Great Plains suffered through a drought, high winds carried topsoil from the midwest to the east coast. Many farmers lost their farms as crops failed
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The program chose work that would not interfere with private enterprise, especially vast public building projects like the construction of highways, bridges, and dams. However, the WPA also provided federal funding for students, who were given work under the National Youth Administration.
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J.J Braddock a huge underdog wins the boxing title from Max Baer. His dramatic comeback story inspired the nation.
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Was held in Berlin when Hitler was in rule from Auggust 1st through the 16th.
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Massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day.
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The classic childrens movie debate on the big screnn in 1939. Is one of the first movies to use color.
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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, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.
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On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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A pep talk to get people ready to fight in WW2. FDR was the President to give the speech.
