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J. Edgar Hoover became head of the FBI in 1924. -
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. -
The stock market crashed is widely known as “Black Tuesday” and is the start of the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms in the 1930s, making food scarce from a lack of farming possible. -
Franklin Roosevelt was elected president for his first term in November of 1932. -
Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January of 1933. -
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. -
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 won the Heavyweight Boxing TItle in -
The Olympic Games took place in Berlin, Germany in -
KristallNacht was an anti - Jewish riot that took place in November. The word “Kristallnacht” translates to “Night of Broken Glass.” -
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. -
The move: “The Wizard of Oz”premiered in movie theaters in 1939. -
Germany invaded Poland for living space for Germans, and also to overturn the Treaty of Versailles. -
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.