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On May 10, 1924, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover acting director of the Bureau, and by the end of the year, Mr. Hoover was named Director.
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Mein Kampf is a book published by Adolf Hitler. It describes how the Nazi Party leader becomes antisemitic and highlights his future plans for Germany.
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The stock market crashes because of low wages, debt, and excessive bank loans.
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The dust bowl begins in the Oklahoma Panhandle and spread east rapidly. 3 million tons of topsoil were estimated to of been blown off of the Great Plains.
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Roosevelt was elected as president by a landslide by winning both electoral votes and popular votes from all states outside the northeast.
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Adolf Hitler was a chancellor of Germany from 1933-to 1945. He invaded Poland in 1939 and triggered the European phase of WW II
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Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in turn to improve America's public lands.
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On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration
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J.J. Braddock wins the Heavyweight title at the madison square garden bowl.
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The Olympic games in berlin started in 1936 and were attended by people from countries around the world. The Olympic games were used for propaganda for the Nazis. It was a huge success for them The games were also used to try and portray Germany as a respectable country in the community.
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Was a program carried out by the nazi party against the jews.
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A novel by John Steinback is about the harshness of the great depression and the sympathy for struggles for migrant farmworkers. it became regarded as an American classic.
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In 1939, the movie "Wizard of Oz" premieres in movie theaters. It became the most loved children movie of the 1900's.
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A German army launched an invasion into Poland under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. The invasion of Poland only lasted about a month before the Nazi victory.
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The Germans began by attacking coastal targets and British shipping operating in the English Channel. They launched their main offensive on 13 August. -
A speech was given by Franklin Roosevelt. It became known as the "The Four Freedoms Speech" due to the short closing portion of what Roosevelt had in mind for America in the future.
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A bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbor and caused the U.S. to join into world war 2 -
This was the first battle where the navy ships didn't have to see each other in order to be in battle. -
Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river -
A surprise invasion of North Africa. -
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II -
The Soviets won the Battle of Kursk and ended Hitler's dream of conquering Russia. -
150,000 soldiers invaded the German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. -
The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944, when German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France -
It is called the bloodiest battle in marine corps history. It also served as an emergency landing for more than 2,200 B-29 Bombers. -
This battle is so significant because it provided an airbase for the bombers could strike Japan and provided an advantage for the allied fleets. -
On April 12, FDR had a stroke known as the Hemorrhagic stroke. This in turn killed him. -
In a bunker in Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler kills himself by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. -
On Thursday, June 30, 1960, jazz festival ticketholders began arriving in Newport by ferry and car. "By Friday, July 1st, we could tell there were more people pouring into town than would fit in the 16,500 seats at Freebody Park, where the festival was held then," recalls Charlie Oxx, a former Newport patrolman.
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Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy. The first-ever televised debate between presidential candidates was held on September 26, 1960. An estimated total of sixty to seventy million viewers watched the first and the successive debates -
He was assassinated by the end of his 3rd year in office. He was shot in his car and his wife was covered in blood. -
The Beatles' record-breaking first live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, at Studio 50 in New York City. Seventy-three million people were reported to have watched the first show. -
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
During this period U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft engaged in a bombing campaign designed to force Ho Chi Minh to abandon his ambition to take over South Vietnam. -
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. -
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children, and old men -
The convention of 1968 was held during a year of riots, political turbulence, and mass civil unrest. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April of that year inflamed racial tensions to an unprecedented level. -
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held on August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York -
A group of eight men is arrested and put on trial for conspiring to incite the riot -
But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. That all changed on April 10, 1970, when an ambiguous Paul McCartney “self-interview” was seized upon by the international media as an official announcement of a Beatles breakup. -
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students -
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion
