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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover joined the Justice Department in 1917 and was named director of the Department's Bureau of Investigation in 1924. Hoover was appointed in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Mein Kampf promoted the key components of Nazism. It was not until 1933, the first year of Hitler’s tenure as chancellor of Germany, that sales soared to over 1 million. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
Stock Market crash was when nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. It caused the depression by causing people to lose all of the money in stocks and run to banks and get their hard money which caused bank runs and caused banks to close. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. Roosevelt immediately acted to restore public confidence. His ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. -
CCC is Created
CCC means Civilian Conservation Corps. CCC is voluntary public work relief program that ran in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages that expanded to 17-28. It put hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
Massive dust storms began in 1931. A two-day dust storm removed massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst such storms of the Dust Bowl. -
WPA is Created
It was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion from June 13, 1935. With the American economy suffering; many boxers were offered lower amounts of money causing them to only box for passion. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
Berlin were a propaganda coup for the Nazis. 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. -
Kristallnacht
The Kristallnacht is when Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
John Steinbeck's purpose was to inform was to inform the public of the migrant's plight. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The Wizard of Oz was one of the first 25 films to be put on the National Film Registry, which is reserved for culturally or historically significant movies. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. Adolf was given an ultimatum: pull out of Poland, or else. Hitler ignored the demand, and two days later, on Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
The Four Freedoms Speech is Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address. It was a powerful vision for a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion, and freedom from want and fear.