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"He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77." Had blackmail for everyone who was higher up and used the FBI as a sort of personal use.
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is a 1925 autobiographical book by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. It describes the process by which Hitler became come up to power and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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From Black Thursday (October 24), which is treated as the beginning of the crash, through Black Tuesday (October 29) stock prices declined by 25 percent
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The Dust Bowl started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region stayed for much longer. It made a severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains. Massive dust storms began in 1931.
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The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D.
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Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany (1933) which then followed a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled until his death by suicide in 1945
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Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, with an executive order. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.
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It was established in 1935 by a presidential order as a key part of the Second New Deal. The WPA's initial appropriation in 1935 was for $4.9 billion
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Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog in what was called the greatest fistic upset
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The Olympic Games were a propaganda success for the Nazi government, as German officials made every effort to portray Germany as a respectable member of the international community.
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It is also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms. They Germans were capturing the Jews.
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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction,
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The path to the Land of Oz took an unusual route through Wisconsin in 1939. Oconomowoc's Strand Theater hosted the world premiere of "The Wizard of Oz"
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Germany invades Poland starting WW2. Germany quickly swept the their capital.
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This speech delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, became known as his "Four Freedoms Speech,", in the address known as the Four Freedoms speech. FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom from want.
