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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. -
Mein Kampf the autobiographical and political manifesto by Adolf Hitler, is widely published and legally available in most countries, including the United States, as it is in the public domain. -
The stock market crash that is widely considered to have triggered the start of the Great Depression occurred on
October 29, 1929, a day known as Black Tuesday. -
The Dust Bowl began with a combination of severe drought in the 1930s and intensive, poor farming practices on the Great Plains. -
This victory came during the Great Depression, and he promised a "New Deal" to lead the country out of the crisis. -
Adolf Hitler became
Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. He was appointed to the position by German President Paul von Hindenburg through Germany's legal, constitutional processes during the Weimar Republic era. -
The acronym "CCC" can refer to several different organizations that were created, most commonly the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which was
established in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the New Deal. -
Created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order on May 6, 1935, to provide jobs during the Great Depression. It was part of the New Deal and was funded by the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935. -
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. -
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 was published on April 14, 1939. John Steinbeck's novel became the best-selling book of 1939 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. -
The Wizard of Oz had its premiere in Hollywood on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, with a nationwide release following on August 25, 1939. Earlier, it had some preview screenings in several test markets, such as Kenosha, Wisconsin; Dennis, Massachusetts; and Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, starting as early as August 10, 1939. -
to regain territory lost after World War I, particularly the Polish Corridor and the city of danzig. -
The "Four Freedoms" speech was a 1941 address by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt that articulated four fundamental freedoms for which the United States would support its allies in World War II: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.