1930s

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Events

• 1930 : Salt March of Mahatma Gandhi
• Depression , mass unemployment until the mid-1930s
• Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932–1935)
• The NSDAP came to power in Germany in 1933 : Adolf Hitler
• Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
• 1937 : Japanese invasion of China
• December 17, 1938 : Otto Hahn discovers the fission of the uranium atom, the scientific and technological basis for the use of nuclear energy
• September 1, 1939 : beginning of the Second World War ( time table )

Cultural history

Hygiene Museum, Dresden, 1930

Swing band at the National Rice Festival in Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

• KdF-Wagen , strength through joy
• International Hygiene Exhibition Dresden 1930
• 1936 Summer Olympics
• Reichsautobahn
• Trix ( model railway )
• People's Receiver
• Zeppelin

music

• Big band swing
• Twelve-tone technique

Movie

Relevant currents

• Screwball comedy
• Horror movie
• Nazi propaganda film
• Gangster movie

Individual contributions internationally

City lights modern times The Marx Brothers at war Warnings are given against blondes Laurel and Hardy: The Blockheads The Wizard of Oz Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

King Kong and the white woman Frankenstein Frankenstein's bride Dracula The Mummy White zombie The Invisible One (1933)

Hunt for James A. The public enemy Chicago - angels with dirty faces The man who knew too much The 39 steps The thin man Blind rage

Morocco Blonde Venus A star is rising Mr. Smith is going to Washington People in the hotel Robin Hood - King of the Vagabonds Stagecoach

Individual contributions national

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• The will of Dr. Mabuse
• The blue Angel
• The three from the gasstation
• Five million are looking for an heir
• The man who was Sherlock Holmes
• Hitler Youth Quex
• triumph of will

Oscar winner ( best film )

• 1930: Nothing new in the West
• 1931: pioneers of the wild west
• 1932: people in the hotel
• 1933: no Academy Awards
• 1934: cavalcade
• 1935: It happened in one night
• 1936: Mutiny on the Bounty
• 1937: The great Ziegfeld
• 1938: The life of Emile Zola
• 1939: Life artist

Visual arts

• Degenerate art
• Salvador Dalí : The Persistence of Memory
• Pablo Picasso : Guernica

Personalities

Adolf Hitler in front of a radio microphone, 1933

politics

• George V , British King
• Edward VIII , British King
• George VI. , British King
• Ramsay MacDonald , British Prime Minister
• Stanley Baldwin , British Prime Minister
• Arthur Neville Chamberlain , British Prime Minister
• Herbert Hoover , American President
• Franklin D. Roosevelt , American President
• Albert Lebrun , French President
• Pius XI. , Pope
• Heinrich Brüning , German Chancellor
• Kurt von Schleicher , German Chancellor
• Franz von Papen , German Chancellor
• Paul von Hindenburg , German President
• Adolf Hitler , dictator
• Rudolf Hess , Hitler's deputy
• Hermann Göring , National Socialist German politician
• Francisco Franco , dictator
• Benito Mussolini , dictator
• Josef Stalin , dictator

Movie

• Josephine Baker
• Warner Baxter
• Humphrey Bogart
  

  Humphrey Bogart, oil on canvas by Eva M. Paar, 2007
• Marlene Dietrich
• Marx Brothers
• Clark Gable
• Judy Garland
• Oliver Hardy
• Jean Harlow
• Johannes Heesters
• Katharine Hepburn
• Leslie Howard
• Stan Laurel
• Vivien Leigh
• Heinz Rühmann
• Barbara Stanwyck
• Shirley Temple
• Thelma Todd
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Frank Capra
• David O. Selznick

music

• Louis Armstrong
• Benny Goodman
• Tommy Dorsey
• Fats Waller
• Count Basie
• Billie Holiday
• Bing Crosby

society

• Al Capone
  

  official police photo of Capone from June 17, 1931
• Bonnie and Clyde
• John Dillinger

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