1930s


Events and Trends

   * Worldwide Great Depression
   * Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism
   * Radio becomes dominant mass media in industrial nations.
   * First intercontinental commercial airline flights.
   * Rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany
   * Millions killed in famines and purges in the Soviet Union under Joseph
     Stalin.
   * Japan invaded China as a precursor to Japanese invasions in Southeast
     Asia
   * The Spanish Civil War
   * Start of World War II in Asia and Europe
   * Height of the Art Deco movement in Europe and the US
   * The Wizard of Oz

World Leaders

   * 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 (Italy)
   * Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
   * Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
   * Pope Pius XI
   * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
   * King George V (United Kingdom)
   * King Edward VIII (United Kingdom)
   * King 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 Delano Roosevelt (United States)
   * President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
   * President Eamon de Valera (Irish Free State)
   * Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (ƒire)

Entertainers

   * Louis Armstrong
   * Fred Astaire
   * Duke Ellington
   * Judy Garland
   * Katharine Hepburn
   * Boris Karloff
   * Bela Lugosi
   * The Marx Brothers
   * Edward G. Robinson
   * Ginger Rogers
   * Fats Waller
   * Alice Brady