A to Z by Decade: 1930s

Pilot who attempted to circumnavigate the globe, vanishing in 1937

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

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

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

New York City landmark completed in 1931

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

1939 romance/war film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh

President known for his inaction during the Great Depression

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Country invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1st, 1939

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conflict started by the events of P in Europe

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

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

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