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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1 Events and trends
2 People
3 External links

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Events and trends

The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the latter emphasizing heavy industrial development, all of them described as totalitarian regimes. In East Asia, the rise of Militarism occurred. In Western Europe, Australia and the United States, more progressive reforms occurred as opposed to the extreme measures sought elsewhere. Roosevelt's New Deal attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severely negative growth. Ultimately, it would be the beginning of World War II in 1939 that would end the depression.

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Technology

Disney adopts a three-color Technicolor process for cartoons
Air mail service across the Atlantic began
Radar invented
First BBC television broadcast.

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Science

Pluto and its primary satellite Charon.

Nuclear fission discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann
Pluto, the ninth planet from the Sun, is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
- Pluto's very small size, relative to Charon (moon), and unique orbit has led some to challenge its classification as a planet
British biochemoheliologist Arthur Tansley coins term "ecosystem"
New and safer method for blood transfusions.

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War, peace and politics

Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism
Rise to power of Adolf Hitler and Nazism in Germany.

During the Spanish Civil War, a Republican soldier seeks cover on the Plaza de Toros in Teruel, east of Madrid.

In the Soviet Union, agricultural collectivization and rapid industralization take place, and the Great Purge occurs, in which much of the Soviet political and military establishment is eliminated* Almost all of Continental Europe moves to Authoritarianism or Totalitarianism
Starts or continue the Estado Novo in Brazil and Portugal.
Advent of the modern welfare state in New Zealand and Sweden.
The Empire of Japan invades China as a precursor to Japanese invasions in Southeast Asia
The Spanish Civil War
Start of World War II in Asia and Europe

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Economics

Worldwide Great Depression

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Literature and Art

W. H. Auden publishes Poems

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Culture, religion

Cover of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman. Art by Joe Shuster.

Radio becomes dominant mass media in industrial nations
"Golden Age" of radio begins in U.S.
First intercontinental commercial airline flights
Height of the Art Deco movement in Europe and the US
The Wizard of Oz
"Big band" or "swing" music becomes popular (from 1935 onward)
Superman debuts in 1938.
Triumph of the Will

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Others

U.S. presidential candidate Huey Long assassinated (1935).
Board of Temperance Strategy established in U.S. to fight repeal of prohibition
Southern Great Plains devastated by decades-long Dust Bowl
German dirigible Hindenburg is destroyed by fire, killing 36 (1937).
The New London School in New London, Texas is destroyed by an explosion, killing in excess of 300 students and teachers (1937).