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J. Edgar Hoover became the acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI) on May 10, 1924, and was appointed Director by President Calvin Coolidge later that year. He was appointed to professionalize the bureau, which was then a small organization with only about 650 employees. He was tasked with removing political appointees and implementing merit-based systems. -
July 18 1925, Hitler's book, Mein Kampf ('My Struggle') was published. He wrote it in prison, where he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted -
The 1929 stock market crash, culminating in the "Black Tuesday" collapse on October 29, is widely considered the beginning of the Great Depression -
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. It lasted from 1930-1936 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected president on November 8, 1932, defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory. He promised a "New Deal" to address the Great Depression, winning 472 electoral votes and carrying 42 of the 48 states -
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was created in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the New Deal to provide jobs for unemployed young men during the Great Depression. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, by President Paul von Hindenburg. His rise to power was not the result of a direct election or a coup, but rather a legal process influenced by political maneuvering and Germany's widespread instability. -
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created on May 6, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to address unemployment during the Great Depression. The WPA was part of Roosevelt's New Deal and provided jobs for millions of unemployed people on public projects like building roads, schools, and airports. -
James J. Braddock won the heavyweight boxing title on June 13, 1935, by defeating the reigning champion, Max Baer, in a 15-round unanimous decision. The victory was considered a major upset, earning Braddock the nickname "The Cinderella Man" from columnist Damon Runyon -
the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany. These Games are historically significant for being a propaganda event for the Nazi regime, which attempted to project an image of a peaceful and tolerant Germany. -
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 and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. -
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. -
The Wizard of Oz had multiple premieres before its nationwide release on August 25, 1939. It had an official worldwide premiere on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California -
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after -
The "Four Freedoms" speech was a 1941 address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that proposed four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The speech aimed to justify greater U.S. involvement in World War II