1930s

     

The 1930s were escribed as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. In East Asia, the rise of militarism occurred.

Trivia about 1930s

  • As part of its salute to this decade, the Post Office created a stamp with a MixMaster on it
  • Frank Sinatra by Harry James
  • Picasso painted "Guernica"
  • This decade wasn't all depressing -- gambling became legal in Nevada
  • The Empire State Building opens & the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast causes a panic
  • Good heavens! Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
  • N.Y. Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell, "Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig
  • In a poem titled for the date when Germany invaded Poland, W.H. Auden called this "A low dishonest decade"
  • "The Yearling" &"Of Mice and Men"
  • U.S. Social Security becomes law
  • Newsweek,Esquire,Consumer Reports
  • Dizzy Dean &Jessie Owens

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