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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
Hoover approved of illegally infiltrating and spying on the American Civil Liberties Union. His spies could be found throughout the government, even in the Supreme Court. He also collected damaging information on the personal lives of civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Autobiography of the founder of the National Socialist this was written by Adolf hitler -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
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. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
This marked a major turning point for germany. Hitler done away with politics and made germany a unified one party state -
CCC is Created
Employed young men and improving the government’s vast holdings of western land, is created in Washington, D.C. it was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Great Depression, the CCC was primarily designed to put thousands of unemployed young men to work on useful public projects. -
WPA is Created
n April 1935, the WPA was established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, as a means of creating government jobs for some of the nation’s many unemployed. -
the Dust bowl
as the great plans suffered through a drought, high winds carried topsoil from the Midwest to the East coast. Many farmers lost their farms as crops failed. -
J.J. Braddock Wins heaveyweight boxing title
JJ.braddock, a huge underdog. wins the heveyweight title from Mr.Bear. this inspired the nation. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
Hitler opened the 11th Summer Olympic Games. Inaugurating a new Olympic ritual, a lone runner arrived bearing a torch carried by relay from the site of the ancient Games in Olympia, Greece. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day. -
Wizard of Oz premiers in Movie theaters
The classic childerens movie played on the big screen in 1939. One of the first movie to use color, its still considered a classic today. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
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. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and artillery. -
four freedom speech
In a speech to Congress. FDR begins to prepare the United States to Join WWII.
