The Great Depression

J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

May 10, 1924

Attourney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed 29- year old Hoover, and by the end of the year was named director. And he was in charge of the FBI for 48 years.

Mein Kampf is published

Jul 18, 1925

Volume one of Adolf Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf is published. This book describes Hitler's political ideology and future plans for Germany.

Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

Oct 29, 1929

Also called the the great crash, was a sharp decline in the U.S. stock market values. The Great Depression lasted for 10 years and affected both industrialized and nonindustrialized countries in many parts of the world.

The Dust Bowl begins

1930

Also known as the "dirty thirties," and lasted for about a decade. Severe drought hit the midwest and southern great plains in 1930, and massive dust storms in 1931.

Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President

1932

Roosevelt defeated republican Herbert Hoover in a landslide. For his first.

Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

President Paul Von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler leader of the national socialist german workers party (nazi party)

CCC is Created

Apr 5, 1933

The CCC was the voluntary public work relief program that ran from 1933-1942.

WPA is Created

May 6, 1935

With executive order, Roosevelt created this. This was apart of a 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

Jun 13, 1935

At Madison Square Garden Bowl, Braddock won the heavy weight championship of the world as a 10-1 underdog.

Olympic Games in Berlin

Aug 1, 1936

Known as the games of the XI olympiad and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi olympics.

Kristallnacht

Oct 9, 1938

Also called "night of broken glass", was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the nazi party's forces.

Grapes of Wrath is Published

Apr 14, 1939

An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the national book award and pultizer prize for fiction.

Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters

Aug 25, 1939

A movie that premiered in the late 1930s, and was set in Kansas.

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Also known as the September Campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by the Nazi Germany, and Soviet Union. This marked the beginning of World War II.

The Four Freedoms Speech

Jan 6, 1941

Also known as the 4 freedoms of speech. Rosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of want, freedom of fear.