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Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover acting director of the Bureau, and by the end of the year Mr. Hoover was named Director. -
Mein Kampf is a philosophical autobiography of Adolf Hitlers life. It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. -
The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression when the market opened 11% lower than the previous day's close. -
A dry period in the 1930s that the southern plains region of the US had to experience. -
Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 by President Paul Von Hindenburg. -
Roosevelt won the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. He remains the youngest person to become president of the United States. -
Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary public work relief program in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. -
WPA 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. -
At the 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". -
The Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin became a propaganda coup for the Nazis. -
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany. -
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck evokes the harshness of the Great Depression and arouses sympathy for the struggles of migrant farmworkers. -
The Wizard of Oz premiers in movie theaters on August 8th 1939. -
Germany invaded Poland setting off WW II. -
In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom from want.