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Sports and Music: Dance Marathons
Across the United States, couples competed in Dance Marathons to see which couple could dance the longest without falling. Couples would risk thier health and some became ill, two even died, some states would outlaw these events. The longest couples record was twenty-two weeks and three and a half days. -
pluto was discovered
pluto's distince from the sun is 367 billion miles away -
Fashion and Entertainment: Pinball
Pinball was a fun game to play at public places or even at home if you had a machine. Every year the game got more advanced and started adding noises and high scores and was just much more fun to play. People often got prizes for beating the high score. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Recylcing
Many people were very poor and could not afford to buy a different outfit every morning, afternoon, and evening. People would recycle their clothing so that people didn't have to go out and buy them when they couldn't afford them. Every once in awhile people would reuse the same outfit all day instead of changing in the middle of the day. -
Sports and Music: First Ever World Cup Final
The World Cup was played in Montevideo with four European teams participating. This increased the setback on FIFA in the lead-up to the 1932 Olympics. Urguay players cried tears of jot when they were the first team to hold the soccers most pecious prizes. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Zipper Clothing
Zippers were invented to replace the buttons and to make it easier on sweatshirts and coats. The very first zipper wasn't much better that buttons, but it still made it easier to close shirts. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Dracula
Dracula was one of the first horror movies created. People thought it was really exciting but scare. The movie was taken from a stageplay and was changed into a movie, but the characters and setting changed from the original script. -
harold urey discovered hury water
with a e. ruark he wrote about atoms, molocules, and quanta. -
World Events. The Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident was an incident where a small quantity of tnt that detonated close to a railroad owned by Japan and Japan blamed Chinese dessindents and it started the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
World Events. Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War started with The Mukden Incident. China fought Japan with some help from Germany, Soviet Union, and the United States of America. The Second Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Frankenstein
Frankenstein was one of the first horror movies created. When it first came out it was meant to be scary and entertaining, but it excited people and terrified the audiences. Before each showing there was always a friendly warning before you entered the movie and a friendly warning before the movie started. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Shoulder pads for women
Shoulder pads became very important in the 1930s and people would wear shoulder pads all the time. People would wear them on dresses, sweaters, and jackets. They were known as a "chic" look and were created to look like you had square shoulders and it came down as a "V," -
Sports and Music: 1932 Olympics
The 1932 Olympics were thought to fail because of the depression still in effect. It was actually a big success including thirty-seven countries sending 1,300 athletes to Los Angeles. There were sixteen world and olympic records set in men's track and field. -
Sports and Music: Babe Didrikson's Career Takes Off
In the 1932 Olympics she won medals in hurdle, javilin throw, and high jump. After, she decided to become a golfer, and she was the best woman golfer in the world of all time. In 1947, she proved she was good by being the first woman to win th British Ladies Ameteur Champianship at Scotland. -
james chadwick discovers sub-atomic neutrons
Uncharged particales of slightly greater mass than the protons. -
amelia airhart flown solo across the atlantic ocean
amelia airhart was the first women to ever fly solo across the atlantic -
Fashion and Entertainment: Amos n Andy
Amos and Andy was the most popular radio show during the time. It was common for entire towns to be listening to the talk. The show had its ups and downs but the performers really understood the radio competetion and it was a great way for people to interact and stay entertained. -
henrik dam discovered vitiman k.
he identifeid vitiman k in 1934. Later investigating the role of vitiman e and nutrition. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Monopoly
Many people were unempolyed at the time and people would imagine playing a game and winning the lottery. The game was like real life and people would have to pay rent if they landed on someone else's property or if it was for sale they could buy it themselves. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Radios
Families would gather around radios and hear about upcoming events or things that happened. It was an excellent source of entertainment and it taught kids about the world and how people survive. -
World Events. Rise of Mussolini
Mussolini and Pierre Laval signed the Franco-Italian Agreement giving Mussolini a free hand in the Abyssiaa Crisis with Ethiopia, in a return alliance against Hitler. Britain declared arms embargo on both Italy and Ethiopia. Britain cleared its ships from the Miditerranean, allowing Italy access to Ethiopia. Italy then attacked Ethiopia. East Africa was created from the merger between the Ethioipian Empire with the old colonies of Italian Somaliland and Italian Eritrea. -
World Events. German Expansion
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the first helicopter was made
the first successful aircraft in which lift is obtainable. which means that armored powered aircraft. -
World Events. Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War started with a rebellion with conservitive generals against their government. The conservitive generals had support from Nazi Germany. Many civilians on both sides of the war were killed for their religious and political views. The war ended on April 1, 1939 with the victory of the rebels. -
Sports and Music: Jesse Owens teaches Hitler a Lesson
In the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens won four gold medals for the track and field events. He wanted to prove Hitler frican Americans were just as good or even better than Aryans. -
a prototype antihistamine is product to fight allergies
having various compounds and chemical structures and fight all allergies -
Sorts and Music: Swing is Introduced
Benny Goodman and his band played in the New York City's Paramount Theater, and became the King of Swing by starting the craze that swept the nation. Soon almost every bandleader played Swing. It later included the dance "The Jitterbug" that had partners swinging eachother around. -
the golden gate bridge was built
they were tring to build the golden gate bridge -
World Event. Nanking Massacre
After Japan invaded China in 1931 Japan captured a formal chinese imperial capital Beijing, Beiping. After that Japan captured Nanjing and commited the Nanking Massacre. There was around 300,000 casualties. -
Sports and Music: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is Released to Theaters
Disney's first animated motion picture was released and enjoyed throughout the United States and then the World. The movie won an Acadamy Award for pioneering a new entertainment field for motion picture cartoons, it also won an Honerary Oscar Award. The movie sold ten million copies in 1994 the first week it was released on DVD, seventeen million copies in the first three weeks, and fifty million world wide. -
Sports and Music: College Football Becomes More Popular
In 1938, college football became so popular people complained about too many post seson games. Origionally, the Rose Bowl was the only tournament. Later, the Orange Bowl, Sun Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Cotton Bowl was added. -
Sports and Music: Joe Louis Teaches Hitler a Lesson
In Yankee Stadium the first fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmelling was at first was just a simple champianship, that turned into a symbol of America versus Hitler. Max was Hitler's prized fighter and he thought African Americans were no match for their Aryan superiority, and Joe proved him wrong after the rematch he won in 124 seconds. Louis sent a message to the Nazis that we were ready to fight. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Nylon
Nylon is a light weight, incredible strength, good durability, and resistance to damage. It can be used from anything like parachutes and ropes to clothing. Nylon was popular during the second world war. -
Sports and Music: Rosseta Tharpe Starts Singing Gospel Music
Rosetta Tharpe's performances were controvertial and revolutionary in served respect. She inspired women to begin preaching and helped by singing gospel music. She was also a unique guitar player who drove traditional folk and urban blues together. -
paul muller develops DDT
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World Events. Gleiwitz incident
The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack by Nazi forces pretending to be poles, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. It intended to create the appearance of polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the oncoming invasion of Poland. -
World Events. The Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland was when Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak group all invaded Poland. This invasion only lasted a few months and ended in October 6, 1939.