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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover as acting director of the Bureau, and by the end of the year, Mr. Hoover was named Director. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
On June 13, 1935, 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". -
Mein Kampf is Published
This book was written by Adolf Hitler and the work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
The Stock Market had crashed due to everybody buying stocks on margin and so eventually all the money went away. People also tried getting their money out of banks but couldn't. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl is a time period when there were severe droughts in the midwest and plains areas. Later on during this time, massive dust storms would hit those areas. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany in January and in a short amount of time, he got a lot of Nazi party members to make up half of the Reichstag. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
He was first elected in March of 1933 when he beat defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover and began his presidency in the midst of the Great Depression. -
CCC is Created
This allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America's public lands, forests, and parks. -
WPA is Created
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The 1936 Summer Olympic Games opened in Berlin, attended by athletes and spectators from countries around the world. 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
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 paramilitary -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
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. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
On August 25, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, which will become one of the best-loved movies in history, opens in theaters around the United States. Based on the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -
Germany Invades Poland
The invasion started on September 1st and lasted all the way til October 6th. The invasion of Poland 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 Four Freedoms Speech
Roosevelt's four freedom speeches were about him trying to get the American people kind of ready for WWII. His "four essential human freedoms" included some phrases already familiar to Americans from the Bill of Rights, as well as some new phrases: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.