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J. Edgar Hoover became the head of the Bureau of Investigation. Appointed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, Hoover was named acting director and then officially named director by the end of the year.
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it was a book published about Hitler. It was a book that was an autobiography. It outlined his political beliefs and more. It was important because it was a blueprint of his ideology.
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The crash was a sudden and steep decline in U.S. stock prices that wiped out billions of dollars in wealth and thousands of investors. It followed a decade of a "bull market"
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began with severe drought in the 1930s and intensive poor farming practices on the Great Plains.
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He was elected on November 8, 1932. He defeated Herbert Hoover. He had won 57% of the popular vote and 472 of electoral votes.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time) was created in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a New Deal program to provide jobs for young men during the Great Depression. It was important because it helped alleviate unemployment by employing hundreds of thousands of men in conservation projects that conserved natural resources
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Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30,1933. He was appointed to his position by the president of Germany. The importance of this was that it was the result of a period of significant political and economic instability.
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he won the Heavyweight Boxing Title by defeating Max Baer in a 15-round unanimous decision. This victory was one of boxing's biggest upsets, earning him the nickname "The Cinderella Man" because he was a comeback fighter from the Great Depression. He held the title until he lost it to Joe Louis via knockout in 1937.
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The Olympic Games in Berlin were the 1936 Summer Olympics, which are infamous for being used as a propaganda tool by the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler
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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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The premiere of the movie The Wizard of Oz was on August 12, 1939, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, which was the first "world premiere" screening to test the film with audiences.
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Germany's invasion of Poland on was important because it was the event that triggered World War II in Europe. Germany used its new "blitzkrieg" strategy to overwhelm Poland, and in response, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.
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The Four Freedoms Speech was a historic address President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to Congress to define the ideological aims of World War II and rally American support for the Allied cause.
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It was a public works program that employed millions of people on a vast array of projects, including building infrastructure like roads and bridges.