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Events and trends
The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global
Great Depression depression. In
Australia, this decade was known as the ''Dirty Thirties''. In both
Central Europe and
Eastern Europe,
Fascism,
Nazism, and
Stalinism dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the latter emphasizing heavy industrial development, all of them described as
totalitarian regimes. In
East Asia, the rise of
Militarism occurred. In
Western Europe, Australia and the
United States, more progressive reforms occurred as opposed to the extreme measures sought elsewhere.
Roosevelt's New Deal attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severely negative growth. Ultimately, it would be the beginning of
World War II in
1939 that would end the depression.
Technology
*
Jet engine invented
*
The Walt Disney Company Disney adopts a three-color
Technicolor process for cartoons
* The
photocopier is invented
*
Air mail service across the
Atlantic began
*
Television invented
*
Radar invented
*
Radio invented
Science
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*
Nuclear fission discovered by
Otto Hahn,
Lise Meitner and
Fritz Strassmann
*
Pluto (planet) Pluto, the ninth planet from the
Sun, is discovered by
Clyde Tombaugh
* Pluto is presently not considered to be a planet by many astronomers due to modern observations*
* British biologist
Arthur Tansley coins term "
ecosystem"
* New and safer method for
blood transfusions.
War, peace and politics
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*
Socialists proclaim ''The death of
Capitalism''
* Rise to power of
Adolf Hitler in
Germany/History Germany
* In the
Soviet Union, agricultural collectivization and rapid industralization take place, and the
Great Purge occurs, in which much of the Soviet political and military establishment is eliminated.
* Almost all of
Continental Europe moves to
Authoritarianism or
Totalitarianism
* Starts or continue the ''
Estado Novo'' in
Brazil and
Portugal.
* Advent of the modern
welfare state in
New Zealand and
Sweden.
* The
Empire of Japan invades
China as a precursor to Japanese invasions in Southeast Asia
* The
Spanish Civil War
* Start of
World War II in Asia and Europe
Economics
* Worldwide
Great Depression
Culture, religion
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*
Radio becomes dominant mass media in industrial nations
* "
Golden Age" of radio begins in U.S.
* First intercontinental commercial airline flights
* Height of the
Art Deco movement in Europe and the US
* ''
The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie) The Wizard of Oz''
* "
Big band" or "
swing" music becomes popular (from
1935 onward)
*
Superman debuts in 1938.
* ''
Triumph of the Will''
Others
* U.S. presidential candidate
Huey Long assassinated
*
Board of Temperance Strategy established in U.S. to fight
repeal of prohibition
* Southern
Great Plains devastated by decades-long
Dust Bowl
People
World leaders
* Prime Minister
James Scullin (
Australia)
* Prime Minister
Joseph Lyons (
Australia)
* Prime Minister
Sir Earle Page (
Australia)
* Prime Minister
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett (
Canada)
* Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King (
Canada)
* President
Chiang Kai-shek (
Republic of China)
* President
Lin Sen (
Republic of China)
* President
Paul von Hindenburg (
Germany)
*
Adolf Hitler (
Germany)
* King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Victor Emmanuel III (
Italy)
* Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini (
Italy)
* President
Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (
Turkey)
* Emperor
Hirohito (
Japan)
*
Pope Pius XI
*
Joseph Stalin (
Soviet Union)
* President
Alcalá Zamora (
Spain)
* Prime Minister
Manuel Azaña (
Spain)
* Prime Minister
Alejandro Lerroux (
Spain)
* King
George V of the United Kingdom George V (
United Kingdom)
* King
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VIII (
United Kingdom)
* King
George VI of the United Kingdom George VI (
United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald (
United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin (
United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain (
United Kingdom)
* President
Herbert Hoover (
United States)
* President
Franklin D. Roosevelt (
United States)
* President
W.T. Cosgrave (
Irish Free State)
* President
Eamon de Valera (
Irish Free State)
* Taoiseach
Eamon de Valera (
Éire)
* Prime Minister
Michael Joseph Savage (
New Zealand)
* President
Getúlio Vargas (
Brazil)
* Prime Minister
António de Oliveira Salazar (
Portugal)
Entertainers
*
Aldous Huxley
*
Bela Lugosi
*
Benny Goodman
*
Bing Crosby
*
Boris Karloff
*
Charlie Chaplin
*
Duke Ellington
*
Django Reinhardt
*
Edward G. Robinson
*
Fats Waller
*
Fred Astaire
*
Ginger Rogers
*
Glenn Miller and his
orchestra
*
Judy Garland
*
Katharine Hepburn
*
Louis Armstrong
*
Marx Brothers The Marx Brothers
*
Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy
*
Carl Stuart Hamblen
*
Zachary Edwin and
The Kemmer Stephens orchestra
Sports figures
*
Cliff Bastin (English
football (soccer) footballer)
*
Donald Bradman (Australian
cricketer)
*
Dixie Dean Bill "Dixie" Dean (English footballer)
*
Jack Dyer (
Australian Rules Football player)
*
Walter Hammond (Gloucestershire & England cricketer)
*
Eddie Hapgood (English footballer)
*
George Headley (West Indies cricketer)
*
Alex James (footballer) Alex James (Scottish footballer)
*
Douglas Jardine (England cricket captain)
*
Harold Larwood (Nottinghamshire & England cricketer)
*
Jack Lovelock (New Zealand runner)
*
Jesse Owens (American
athletics track and field athlete)
*
Fred Perry (English
tennis player)
*
Lou Gehrig (American
baseball player)
External links
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The Dirty Thirties — Images of the Great Depression in Canada
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