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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. -
The Mein Kampf was Published July 18, 1925. -
The stock market crash of 1929, also called the Great Crash, had a sharp decline in U.S. stock market values in 1929 that contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s. -
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt won the election against Herbert Hoover and became president during the Great Depression. -
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany. -
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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. -
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". -
The 1936 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin Germany. -
Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes. -
The Grapes of Wrath has captured the American imagination, pulling back the curtain on a way of life that most of us could scarcely imagine, and showing us the powerful ways that literature can touch society. -
Audiences first heard "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" from the movie "The Wizard of Oz" at the Strand Theater in Oconomowoc. -
On September 1, 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun. -
Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address, commonly known as the “Four Freedoms” speech. In it he articulated a powerful vision for a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion, and freedom from want and fear.