The Great Depression

  • J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    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, Hoover was named Director.
  • Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is Published

    The Mein Kampf was an autobiography written by Adolf Hitler. It talks about how he became an antisemitic, this book was published in 1925 then volume 2 in 1926.
  • Stock Market Crashes, Great Depression Begins

    Stock Market Crashes, Great Depression Begins

    In 1929, to kick off the Great Depression and make so many people suffer, The stock market crashed and a lot of people lost all their money.
  • The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl Begins

    The "Dust Bowl," was a man-made catastrophe during the Great Depression. Lots of people and livestock were killed, and crops failed to grow because it ruined the topsoil.
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    The former Chancellor and some other dudes that were also pretty important to the germans went and convinced the president, Paul von Hindenburg, to make Hitler the chancellor.
  • FDR elected (1st time)

    FDR elected (1st time)

    FDR won his first election with ease because Herbert Hoover was hated by everyone. I think that pretty much everyone blamed him for the great depression. Only three or four states voted for hoover and the rest voted for FDR.
  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created

    The CCC was created so that people that lost just about all they had could have jobs.
  • WPA is Created

    WPA is Created

    FDR 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 by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels.
  • J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    on June 13, 1935, at Madison Square Garden Bowl, Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog in what was called "the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan," by Jim Corbett.
  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin

    The Berlin Games were only a partial success for the Nazis. Germany finished top of the medal table, but Hitler became embarrassed and ashamed of his people for losing 4 gold medals to just one man, Jesse Owens.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht was when the nazis first started to take action and start taking out Jews. Kristallnacht was also called another name, The Night of Broken Glass.
  • "Grapes of War," is Published

    "Grapes of War," is Published

    The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when the author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.
  • Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

    Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

    The Wizard of Oz premiered on August 25, 1939. It went on to be one of the most loved movies in history and still is to this day.
  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Hitler Invades Poland

    In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and this started WWII. After he invaded Poland nobody did anything about it so he continued to grow his military and continue invading different areas. It was almost too late when people started fighting back and we were eventually able to beat the nazis.
  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The four freedoms are the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear.