1930's

1930s [|Dorothea Lange]'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States
 * 1931 - [|Empire State Building] opens
 * 1931 - [|Japanese invasion of Manchuria]
 * 1932 - [|Stimson Doctrine]
 * 1932 - [|Norris-La Guardia Act]
 * 1932 - [|Bonus Army] marches on DC
 * 1932 - [|Amelia Earhart] flies across [|Atlantic Ocean]
 * 1932 - [|Reconstruction Finance Corporation]
 * 1933 - [|20th Amendment]
 * 1933 - [|Franklin Delano Roosevelt] becomes President
 * 1933 - [|Agricultural Adjustment Act]
 * 1933 - [|Civil Works Administration]
 * 1933 - [|Civilian Conservation Corps]
 * 1933 - [|Farm Credit Administration]
 * 1933 - [|Home Owners Loan Corporation]
 * 1933 - [|Tennessee Valley Authority]
 * 1933 - [|Public Works Administration]
 * 1933 - [|National Industrial Recovery Act]
 * 1933 - [|Giuseppe Zangara] kills [|Anton Cermak]
 * 1933 - [|Frances Perkins] appointed [|United States Secretary of Labor]
 * 1933 - New Deal
 * 1934 - [|Glass-Steagall Act]
 * 1934 - [|U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission] established
 * 1934 - [|Dust Bowl] begins
 * 1934 - [|Federal Housing Administration]
 * 1934 - [|Johnson Act]
 * 1934 - [|Philippine Commonwealth] established
 * 1934 - [|Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act]
 * 1934 - [|Tydings-McDuffie Act]
 * 1934 - [|John Dillinger] killed
 * 1934 - [|Indian Reorganization Act]
 * 1934 - [|Share the Wealth society] founded by [|Huey Long]
 * 1935 - [|Works Progress Administration]
 * 1935 - [|Neutrality Act]
 * 1935 - [|Motor Carrier Act]
 * 1935 - [|Social Security Act]
 * 1935 - //[|Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States]//
 * 1935 - [|National Labor Relations Act]
 * 1935 - [|Huey Long] assassinated
 * 1935 - [|Congress of Industrial Organizations] formed
 * 1935 - [|Alcoholics Anonymous] founded
 * 1935 - [|Revenue Act of 1935]
 * 1936 - [|Robinson-Patman Act]
 * 1936 - //[|Life]// magazine publishes first issue
 * 1936 - //[|United States v. Butler]//
 * 1936 - [|Second London Naval Treaty]
 * 1937 - [|Neutrality Acts]
 * 1937 - [|//Hindenburg// disaster]
 * 1937 - [|//Panay// incident]
 * 1937 - [|Golden Gate Bridge] completed
 * 1938 - [|Wheeler-Lea Act]
 * 1938 - [|Fair Labor Standards Act]
 * 1939 - [|Hatch Act]
 * 1938 - [|Orson Welles]' //[|The War of the Worlds]// broadcast
 * 1939 - [|Nazi Germany invades Poland]; [|World War II] begins
 * 1939 - [|Cash and carry]


 * The Culture of the 1930's**