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Elected when President McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York. -
Book Adolf Hitler wrote describing his future plans for Germany. -
"Black Thursday." The collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply. -
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States. The U.S. suffered from severe drought and dust storms from 1930-1936. -
Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. The Nazi party assumes control of the German State. -
Created to recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation's forests, parks, and fields. -
Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI, where he remained director for 37 years until his death in 1972. -
It was part of 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. -
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". -
African American, Jesse Owens, wins 4 gold medals against Germany. Adolf Hitler refuses to shake his hand. -
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and murdered close to 100 Jews. -
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. -
The Wizard of Oz, which will become one of the best-loved movies in history, opens in theaters around the United States. -
Russia had to come to the aid of its “blood brothers,” the Ukrainians and Byelorussians, who were trapped in territory that had been illegally annexed by Poland. -
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.