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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 Mr. Hoover was named Director. -
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiograph by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs his political future plans for Germany and the world. -
The stock market crash of October 1929 led directly to the Great Depression in Europe. When stocks plummeted on the New York Stock Exchange. -
The Dust Bowl started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade but its long term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and southern Great Plains in 1930. -
In the 1932 presidential election Roosevelt defeated president Herbert Hoover in a huge victory. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the nazi party. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt 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. -
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck. -
Was an American world heavyweight boxing champion from June 13, 1935, when he outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds. -
Berlin 1936 Olympic Games athletic festival held in Berlin. The Berlin Games were the 10 th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. -
The film opened in wide release on August 25 however as is often the case with major motion pictures there are test promotional press and other types of screenings prior to the wide release. -
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass also called the November pogrom was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Parties. -
The Invasion of Poland also known as the September Campaign Polish Campaign and Polish Defensive War of 1939. -
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941.