The Great Depression Timeline

  • J. Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J. Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI

    J. Edgar Hoover became head of the FBI in 1924.
  • Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is a autobiograpgical book published by Adolf Hitler in 1925. It contains many of his political beliefs, and is the most popular and sold book about Nazi values.
  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    The stock market crashed is widely known as “Black Tuesday” and is the start of the Great Depression.
  • The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms in the 1930s, making food scarce from a lack of farming possible.
  • Franklin Roosevelt Elected President (1st Term)

    Franklin Roosevelt Elected President (1st Term)

    Franklin Roosevelt was elected president for his first term in November of 1932.
  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January of 1933.
  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created

    The CCC was a New Deal Program enacted in the United States. It gave jobs to millions of young men. Most of the jobs were dealt with the environment in some way shape or form. It took place during the Great Depression.
  • WPA is Created

    WPA is Created

    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an executive order in 1935 as a new deal program funded by Congress through the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, also from 1935.
  • J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title

    J.J. Braddock won the Heavyweight Boxing TItle in
  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin

    The Olympic Games took place in Berlin, Germany in
  • KristallNacht

    KristallNacht

    KristallNacht was an anti - Jewish riot that took place in November. The word “Kristallnacht” translates to “Night of Broken Glass.”
  • The Grapes of Wrath is Created

    The Grapes of Wrath is Created

    The Grapes of Wrath was a 1939 novel about a family who had to leave their Oklahoma home due to the dust bowls and move to California for work.
  • Wizard of OZ Premiers in Movie Theaters

    Wizard of OZ Premiers in Movie Theaters

    The move: “The Wizard of Oz”premiered in movie theaters in 1939.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland for living space for Germans, and also to overturn the Treaty of Versailles.
  • The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech

    The Four Freedoms Speech was delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt about the four freedoms each and every human should be entitled to upon birth, and until death.