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The Great Depression

By KendallFergison

  • J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
    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 Published

    Mein Kampf is Published
    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.

  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
    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.

  • The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl Begins
    A dry period in the 1930s that the southern plains region of the US had to experience.

  • Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
    Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 by President Paul Von Hindenburg.

  • Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)

    Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
    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.

  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created
    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 is Created

    WPA is Created
    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.

  • J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title06

    J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title06
    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".

  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin
    The Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin became a propaganda coup for the Nazis.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    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.

  • Grapes of Wrath is Published

    Grapes of Wrath is Published
    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.

  • Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

    Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
    The Wizard of Oz premiers in movie theaters on August 8th 1939.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    Germany invaded Poland setting off WW II.

  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech
    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.