1930s
Sign in to saveFile:1930s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Thompson shows the effects of the Great Depression; due to extreme drought conditions, farms across the south-central United States become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads; The Empire of Japan invades China, which eventually leads to the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1937, Japanese soldiers massacre civilians in Nanjing; aviator Amelia Earhart becomes an American flight icon; German dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempt to establish a New Order of German hegemony in Europe, which culminat
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The 1930s was a decade marked by severe economic hardship, environmental disaster, and the rise of aggressive totalitarian regimes across the globe. The period is significant because it encompassed the Great Depression's devastating impact on ordinary people, environmental catastrophe like the Dust Bowl, the beginning of World War II-era conflicts including Japan's invasion of China and Hitler's Nazi expansion in Europe, and notable individual achievements like Amelia Earhart's aviation feats.
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File:1930s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Thompson shows the effects of the Great Depression; due to extreme drought conditions, farms across the south-central United States become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads; The Empire of Japan invades China, which eventually leads to the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1937, Japanese soldiers massacre civilians in Nanjing; aviator Amelia Earhart becomes an American flight icon; German dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempt to establish a New Order of German hegemony in Europe, which culminates in 1939 when Germany invades Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II. The Nazis also persecute Jews in Germany, specifically with Kristallnacht in 1938; the Hindenburg explodes over a small New Jersey airfield, causing 36 deaths and effectively ending commercial airship travel; Mohandas Gandhi walks to the Arabian Sea in the Salt March of 1930.|335px|thumb rect 1 1 174 226 Great Depression rect 177 1 375 121 Dust Bowl rect 177 124 275 226 Second Sino-Japanese War rect 276 124 375 226 Rape of Nanking rect 378 1 497 226 Amelia Earhart rect 1 229 221 353 Salt March rect 1 357 221 488 Hindenburg disaster rect 225 230 359 488 Nazi Invasion of Poland rect 361 230 497 488 Kristallnacht
The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties"; shortened to the "30s" and referred to as the "Thirties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1930 and ended on December 31, 1939. In the United States, the Dust Bowl led to the nickname the "Dirty Thirties".