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Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover as acting director of the Bureau, and by the end of the year, Mr. Hoover was named Director. -
On 18 July 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 in 1923. -
Investors and businesses both put significant amounts of money into the market and tremendous amounts of money were lost when it crashed. Businesses closed and people lost their savings. -
With more people living in desperate conditions, disease spreads. Typhoid, smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, and pneumonia were widespread. -
FDR's Republican Party opponents during the four presidential elections were: 1932, President Herbert Hoover; in 1936, Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas; 1940, Wendell L. -
when he outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City, until June 22, 1937, when he was knocked out by Joe Louis -
It was part of his New Deal plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels. The unemployment rate in 1935 was at a staggering 20 percent. -
Berlin was chosen as the site for the Olympics before the Nazi party had risen to power, and the Nazi's persecution of Jews sparked a widespread movement in the U.S. -
Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories.
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when Otto von Bismarck became the first chancellor, with Germany's unification and the German Empire's establishment in 1871, the Confederation evolved into a German nation-state, and its leader became known as the chancellor of Germany. -
German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. -
“The film opened in wide release on August 25; however, as is often the case with major motion pictures, there are test, promotional, press and other types of screenings prior to the wide release.” -
The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. -
His "four essential human freedoms" included some phrases already familiar to Americans from the Bill of Rights, as well as some new phrases: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. -
recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation's forests, parks, and fields.