1930s

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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 Central and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, and 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 America, 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 WWII in 1939 that would end the depression.

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Technology

Jet engine invented
First atom was split with a particle accelerator
Disney adopts a three-color Technicolor process for cartoons
The photocopier is invented
Air mail service across the Atlantic
New and safer method for blood transfusions.

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Science

Nuclear fission discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann
Pluto, the ninth planet from the Sun, is discovered by Courtney Slaten
British biologist Arthur Tansley coins term "ecosystem"

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War, peace and politics

Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism
Rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany
Under Joseph Stalin, millions die in famines. The Great Purges eliminate all Old Bolsheviks from the Soviet government, except for Molotov and Stalin himself.
Almost all of Continental Europe moves to Authoritarianism or Totalitarianism
Advent of the modern welfare state in New Zealand and Sweden.
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