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The Great Depression
"The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors." https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history#:~:text=Photo%20Galleries-,The%20Great%20Depression%20was%20the%20worst%20economic%20downturn%20in%20the,wiped%20out%20millions%20of%20investors. -
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Dust Bowl
"The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s... people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region." https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl#:~:text=The%20Dust%20Bowl%20was%20the,failed%20across%20the%20entire%20region. -
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Fashion Trends
"Women commonly wore dresses with wide shoulders; puffy sleeves; modest necklines; higher, belted waistlines; and mid-calf flared hemlines. Frilly bows, ruffles, buttons, and other details often decorated dresses. Short, curly styles dominated
For men the overall trend was looser and a little more casual. English drape suits were popularized.
Many children wore homemade clothing or items purchased from mail-order catalogs."
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Hawke's Bay Earthquake
New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster, killing 256 people, injuring many, and ruining the area. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/hawkes-bay-earthquake-0 -
Empire State Building Opens
The world's most famous office building. -
Yangtze River Floods
Major flood hitting Wuhan, Nanjing, and more, killing 3.7 million people -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan troops Army invaded Manchuria, a land full of natural resources. They sought raw materials for their growing industry; after the effects of The Great Depression. -
The Matanza (The Massacre)
'In the Central American nation of El Salvador, 30,000 people — most of whom were indigenous — died at the hands of Salvadoran soldiers for protesting the government and the oppressive policies of president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez." https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la-matanza -
Brazil Grants Women Suffrage
Women in Brazil are granted voting rights. -
Brave New World
Novel by English author Aldous Huxley. The book was written between World War I and World War II, the height of an era of technological optimism in the West. Huxley picked up on such optimism and created the dystopian world of his novel so as to criticize it. -
Government Attacks WW1 Veterans
"The U.S. government attacked World War I veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas, under the leadership of textbook heroes Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The WWI vets were part of a Bonus Army who came to Washington, D.C. to make a demand for their promised wartime bonuses." https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonus-army-attacked/ -
The Nazi Party Became the Largest in Parliament
"The Nazi Party became the largest political party in the Reichstag with 230 representatives." https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-rise-to-power -
US Troops Leave Nicaragua
"In the closing months of President Herbert Hoover’s administration the U.S. 5th Marine Regiment withdrew from Nicaragua. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/02/this-day-in-politics-jan-2-1933-1077356 -
Nazis Begin Persecution of Jews
The Nazi Party rose to power due to the social and political climate of the interwar period in Germany. Nazi anti-Jewish policy constituted legal measures to expel the Jews from society and strip them of their rights and property, while engaging in incitement, abuse, terror and violence. https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/nazi-germany-1933-39/beginning-of-persecution.html -
Assyrian Martyr’s Day
"Military forces from the newly-founded country of Iraq massacred approximately 3,000 Assyrians in Simele, Iraq." -
FDR assassination attempt
'Roosevelt had just delivered a speech in Miami’s Bayfront Park from the back seat of his open touring car when Zangara opened fire with six rounds. Five people were hit. The president escaped injury." https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-escapes-assassination-in-miami -
Spanish Basques Vote for Autonomy
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The Children's Hour
"The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children's_Hour_(play) -
Great Depression Turning Point
Unemployment decreased by 22%, "With three strikes in three cities--Toledo, San Francisco and Minneapolis--that showed workers could fight back and win." https://socialistworker.org/2009/10/06/lessons-of-1934#:~:text=The%20year%201934%20marked%20a,could%20fight%20back%20and%20win. -
First Tape Recorder for Broadcasting
Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording. -
The Great Purge Launched
"The Purge brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. The first event of the Great Purge took place in 1934 with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, a prominent Bolshevik leader." https://www.history.com/topics/russia/great-purge -
First Canned Beer
The first canned beer made (2 years after prohibition). -
Elvis Presley
Famous American singer and actor was born. -
Black Sunday
One of the most devastating storms of the 1930s Dust Bowl era sweeps across the region https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-major-dust-bowl-storm-strikes#:~:text=In%20what%20came%20to%20be,was%20coming%20to%20an%20end. -
Hoover Dam
Concrete placement in the dam was completed. -