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- 'The Rules of the Game' (1939) Director: Jean Renoir. Two years on from Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir made a film that was arguably even better with 1939’s The Rules of the Game, which has some similar thematic content while feeling quite different tonally.
- 'Grand Illusion' (1937) Director: Jean Renoir. As World War II loomed towards the end of the 1930s, 1937 saw the release of a classic war movie that would have to rank as one of the best to center around the First World War.
- 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (1930) Director: Lewis Milestone. For a couple of brief decades, World War I was The Great War; a conflict on such a scale that led to immense devastation, so much so that the likes of it seemed as though it would never be equaled or topped.
- 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) Director: Victor Fleming. The Wizard of Oz is The Wizard of Oz. It’s about as iconic as movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood get, and to this day, it’s still a definitive live-action fantasy movie to which many others inevitably get compared.
- The Great Depression
- Dust Bowl
- Herbert Hoover
- Roosevelt’s New Deal
- American Culture During The 1930s
- The Second New Deal
- Roosevelt’s Second Term
- The Depression Ends
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The stock market crash of October 29, 1929(also known as Black Tuesday) provided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedented, and unprecedentedly lopsided, prosperity. The disaster had been brewing for years, though different historians and economists offer different explanations for the crisis: Some blame the increasingly uneven distribution of weal...
The 1930s saw natural disasters as well as manmade ones: For most of the decade, people in the Plains states suffered through the worst drought in American history, as well as hundreds of severe dust storms, or "black blizzards," that carried away the soil and made it all but impossible to plant crops. By 1940, 2.5 million people had abandoned thei...
President Herbert Hooverwas slow to respond to these events. Though he believed that the “crazy and dangerous” behavior of Wall Street speculators had contributed in a significant way to the crisis, he also believed that solving such problems was not really the federal government’s job. As a result, most of the solutions he suggested were voluntary...
By 1932, many Americans were fed up with Hoover and what his political opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt called his “hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government. The New York governor and Democratic presidential challenger, Roosevelt promised a change: “I pledge myself,” he said, “to a New Dealfor the American people.” This New Deal would use the...
During the Depression, most people did not have much money to spare. However, by 1938 about 80 percent of American households had radios—and listening to the radio was free. The most popular broadcasts were those that distracted listeners from their everyday struggles: comedy programs like “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” soap operas and sporting events. Swing mus...
President Roosevelt’s early efforts had begun to restore Americans’ confidence, but they had not ended the Depression. In the spring of 1935, he launched a second, more aggressive set of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal. The Works Progress Administration provided jobs for unemployed people and built new public works like bridg...
In 1936, while campaigning for a second term, President Roosevelt told a roaring crowd at Madison Square Garden that “The forces of ‘organized money’ are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” He went on: “I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met the...
By the end of the 1930s, the New Deal had come to an end. Growing Congressional opposition made it difficult for President Roosevelt to introduce new programs. At the same time, as the threat of war in Europe loomed on the horizon—Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and invaded Poland in 1939—the president turned his attention awa...
Timeline: 1930s. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. Breaking News of the 1930s. PBS: American Experience. List of 1930's Major News Events in History. The People History.
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Feb 8, 2022 · 1930s – 7 Historical Events that happened in the 1930s. By Richard Gibson. February 8th, 2022. During the 1930s, the USA ended Prohibition and found itself contending with domestic crime like never before, Europe and Asia were inching ever closer to war. In the east, Japan asserted its dominance, while in the West, the rise of Hitler and the ...
The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as " the '30s " or " the Thirties ") was a 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". The decade was defined by a global economic and political crisis that culminated in the ...
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930) According to my esteemed colleagues at CrimeReads, Dashiell Hammett more or less invented the American hardboiled crime novel, and also inspired the entire film noir genre (although, Molly Odintz would like me to specify here, film noir also owes a lot to German expressionism).
- Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth (1931) You couldn’t say that the contents of this novel reflect American life in the 1930s, exactly—beginning as it does in a pre-revolutionary Chinese village—but it was certainly a sensation of its time, so it must have struck a certain chord.
- Irma S. Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking (1931) If we’re measuring influence by which books were ubiquitous in American homes, this one takes the cake. (Listen, I’m not sorry.)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) With Nineteen Eighty-Four, Huxley’s dystopian classic—in which biological reproduction has been sidestepped, society has been organized by intellect, and soma keeps everyone happy—is still the text against which we repeatedly judge our present and (possibly) future.
Some of the most popular musical movies that were released during the 1930s include Bright Lights (1930), 42nd Street (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), Showboat (1936), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Babes In Arms (1939). Entertainers that appeared in these films were often well-rounded and had ...
Aug 15, 2023 · The Great Depression was a terrible decade with much loss and suffering. These movies show us what the 1930s were like. By Georgia May. Aug 15, 2023.
