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The CCC allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America's public lands, forests, and parks -
J. Edgar Hoover served for 48 years in which he became a tyrant whom no one wanted to cross shortly after he died, a law was passed setting the Director's term as ten years -
A series of droughts combined with non-sustainable agricultural practices led to devastating dust storms, famine, diseases, and deaths related to breathing dust -
A 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler which outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, his political ideology and future plans for Germany and the world -
The stock market crash led directly to the Great Depression. Stocks plummeted on the New York Stock Exchange -
Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party -
FDR was first inaugurated as the 32nd President to the first of four terms -
An American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads -
James outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City -
The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The event was held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere, occurring just two years after Adolf Hitler became Führer. -
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship's declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews -
An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck chronicles the migration of the Joad family from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl. -
The Wizard of Oz officially premiered in Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre -
The Invasion of Poland was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II -
A powerful vision for a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion and freedom from want and fear