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J. Edgar Hoover became the acting director of the Bureau of Investigation on May 10, 1924, and was officially named director seven months later. He was appointed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone with the mandate to professionalize the agency. -
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical and political manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. -
The Wall Street crash of October 1929, known as "Black Thursday" and "Black Tuesday," is widely regarded as the start of the Great Depression -
The persistent dry weather caused crops to fail, leaving the plowed fields exposed to wind erosion. The Great Plains' fine soil eroded easily and was carried east by strong continental winds. The first recorded dust storm occurred on September 14, 1930. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected President of the United States on
November 8, 1932, defeating incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in a landslide during the Great Depression. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, by President Paul von Hindenburg -
The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a key part of the Second New Deal. -
James J. Braddock won the heavyweight boxing title on June 13, 1935 -
Berlin hosted the Olympic Games once, in 1936. These Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad and were held under the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler -
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. -
The Grapes of Wrath, the best-known novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. -
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. -
The Wizard of Oz” premiered on 15 August 1939 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, later premiered in New York, and opened across the country on August 25th. But the GATEWAY Theatre in Kenosha premiered it before them all. -
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. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.