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J. Edgar Hoover became the acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI) on May 10, 1924, and was appointed Director by President Calvin Coolidge later that year.
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Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical and political manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, his political ideology, and his future plans for Germany and the world
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The stock market crash that signaled the start of the Great Depression began with "Black Thursday" on October 24, 1929, and culminated in a catastrophic collapse on "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929
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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
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected president on November 8, 1932, defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover. He won with a significant margin, securing 57% of the popular vote and 472 electoral votes
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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, by President Paul von Hindenburg
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the historical Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) created in 1933 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the New Deal
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The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created in May 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide jobs for the unemployed during the Great Depression.
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James J. Braddock won the heavyweight boxing title on June 13, 1935, by defeating the reigning champion, Max Baer, in a 15-round unanimous decision.
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Berlin has hosted the Olympic Games only once, in 1936, which are famously known as the Nazi Olympics. The Games were a significant propaganda event for Adolf Hitler's regime, which tried to showcase Germany as a strong and tolerant nation by temporarily suppressing anti-Semitic signs and laws
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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 and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published on April 14, 1939. The novel quickly became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
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The Wizard of Oz premiered in select theaters throughout August 1939, with a major premiere on August 15, 1939
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The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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The "Four Freedoms" speech, delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, outlined four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear