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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crashed in 1929 and wiped out millions of investors. -
First Car radio
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Discovered Blood Types
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American Gothic by Grant Wood
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Frozen Food Invented
Clarence Birdseye is credited with inventing in 1924 the quick freezing method, which produces the type of frozen foods that we know today -
Australia becomes independent from England
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Franklin Roosevelt elected president
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first female aviator to successfully fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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Nazi regime opens first concentration camps
The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler's leadership began imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous.” Extensive propaganda was used to spread the Nazi Party’s racist goals and ideals. During the first six years of Hitler’s dictatorship, German Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives. -
Adolf Hitler appointed German Chancellor
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21st amendment ends prohibition
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Dust Bowl
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Disney introduces the character of "Donald Duck" in the animated short "The Little Wise Hen."
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Babe Ruth Retires
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Social security act passed
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Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected
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William Henry Hastie is appointed to the federal bench, becoming the first African-American to become a federal judge.
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Golden Gate Bridge opens
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Jet Engine
The first operational jet engine was designed in Germany by Hans Pabst von Ohain and powered the first jet-aircraft flight on August 27, 1939. -
Chocolate Chip Cookie invented
Ruth Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, added broken chocolate bar pieces into her cookie batter thinking that they would melt. Instead, the classic dessert was born. -
Federal minimum wage signed into law
The federal minimum wage was signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, at the height of the Great Depression. Its stated purpose was to keep America's workers out of poverty and increase consumer purchasing power in order to stimulate the economy. -
Manhattan project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
World war 2 begins
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Reference Page
https://www.facinghistory.org/topics/holocaust/transforming-germany-1930s
https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1930-timeline.php
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/worldevents_01.html
https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/worlds-timeline-worlds/