AMERICA IN THE1930'S

1929

• The car radio was invented
• First academy awards
• The New York stock exchange crashed
• St. Valentines day massacre

1930

• Pluto was discovered
• Sliced bread becomes available
• Stalin begins collectivizing agriculture in the USSR

1931

• Al Capone is imprisoned for income tax evasion
• The Empire State Building is completed
• Scottsboro boys are accused of rape
• The US officially has a national anthem

1932

• Air conditioning was invented
• Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
• Scientists split the atom

1933

• Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
• Loch Ness monster first spotted
• Prohibition ends in the US

1934

• Bonnie and Clyde killed by police
• Mao Zedong begins the long march
• Parker brothers sell the game of monopoly

1935

• Alcoholics Anonymous founded
• Germany issues the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
• Social security enacted in the US

1936

• Hoover Dam completed
• King Edward VII abdicated Nazi Olympics in Berlin

1937

• Amelia Earhart vanishes
• Golden Gate Bridge opens
• Hindenburg disaster

1938

• Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" causes panic
• Hitler annexes Austria
• The night of broken glass (Kristallnacht)

1930

• Pluto was discovered
• Sliced bread becomes available
• Stalin begins collectivizing agriculture in the USSR

1931

• Al Capone imprisoned for income tax evasion
• Empire State Building completed
• Scottsboro boys accused of rape
• U.S officially has a national anthem

1932

• Air conditioning is invented
• Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
• Scientists split the atom

1933

• Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
• Loch Ness monster first spotted
• Prohibition ends in the U.S

1934

• Bonnie and Clyde killed by police
• Mao Zedong begins the long march
• Parker brothers sell the game of Monopoly

1935

• Alcoholics Anonymous founded
• Germany issues the anti Jewish Nuremberg laws
• Social security enact in U.S

1936

• Hoover Dam completed
• King Edward VII abdicated Nazi Olympics in Berlin

1937

• Amelia Earhart vanishes
• Golden Gate Bridge opened
• Hindenburg disaster

1938

• Broadcast of "the war of the worlds" causes panic
• Hitler annexes Austria
• The night of broken glass (Kristallnacht)