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J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
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. -
Mein Kampf is Published
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. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
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. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
With more people living in desperate conditions, disease spreads. Typhoid, smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, and pneumonia were widespread. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
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. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
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 -
WPA is Created
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. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
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. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
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. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
“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.” -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
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. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
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. -
CCC is Created
recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation's forests, parks, and fields.