A to Z by Decade: 1930s

A

Pilot who attempted to circumnavigate the globe, vanishing in 1937

B

Notorious outlaw couple who carried out a string of robberies before being shot down in Louisiana in 1934

C

City which Al Capone ran his criminal empire out of before his 1933 arrest

D

Massive environmental disaster which saw thick dust storms sweep across the Great Plains

E

New York City landmark completed in 1931

F

Type of regimes led by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Italy and Germany respectively

G

1939 romance/war film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh

H

President known for his inaction during the Great Depression

I

Largest immigrant group in 1930s America, particularly in New York and New Jersey

J

Black track and field legend from the US who humiliated Hitler’s claims of Aryan supremacy at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

K

1938 vandalism of Jewish neighborhoods and businesses across Nazi Germany, known as “the night of broken glass”

L

A famous photograph of this mythical creature was supposedly snapped in 1934, before being debunked as a hoax six decades later

M

1931 Fritz Lang film about a knife-throwing killer, played by Peter Lorre

N

Series of social programs rolled out by Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression

O

Term for migrant workers from the Great Plains heading west to California to look for work and escape the effects of D

P

Country invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1st, 1939

Q

1930 film adaptation of a popular anti-war novel the previous year: All _____ on the Western Front

R

Form of media broadcasting where listeners tuned in to War of the Worlds, Little Orphan Annie, or one of President Roosevelt’s fireside chats

S

Safety net signed into law in the US in 1935, creating national old-age retirement benefits and financial compensation for the unemployed

T

Trade restrictions on foreign goods implemented in the 1930s which made the Great Depression’s effects even worse on the US economy

U

Rates of this in the United States reached a staggering 25%, affecting around 15 million Americans, and remained extremely high throughout the 1930s

V

Post-WWI treaty broken by Nazi annexation of Austria in 1934

W

Conflict started by the events of P in Europe

X

Tool which largely turned from a novelty to a diagnostic medical device

Y

What Dorothy needed to follow to get to the wizard of Oz

Z

The Hindenburg, one of these vehicles, went down in a fiery 1937 crash in Germany, killing 36 people