Headline Makers - 1930's

Politics

Fascists

Nazi's (National Socialist German Workers Party)

Socialists

Communists

the Axis powers

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Hideki Tojo

"the rape of Nanking"

Spanish Civil War

Francisco Franco

Joseph Stalin

Neville Chamberlain

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

appeasment

isolationism

the German-American Bund

Herbert Hoover

Alf Landon

Eleanor Roosevelt

Frances Perkins

Huey Long

John L. Lewis

Popular Culture

Ernest Hemmingway

Will Rogers

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Henry Fonda

Orson Welles

Tarzan

King Kong

The Wizard of Oz

Gone With the Wind

Clark Gable

Shirley Temple

Judy Garland

Bette Davis

Gary Cooper

James Stewart

Walt Disney

Lil' Orphan Annie

Superman

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Screwball Comedy

Marx Brothers

W.C. Fields

Musicians

Toscanini

Marian Anderson

Bing Crosby

Benny Goodman - "The King of Swing"

Count Basie

Duke Ellington

Sports

Jessie Owens

Joe Louis - "The Brown Bomber"

Max Schmelling

Misc.

Albert Einstein

Amelia Earhart

The Hindenberg

lynching

The New Deal

bank holiday

first 100 days

"brain trust"

fireside chats

Federal Securities Act

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Emergency Banking Relief Act

National Industrial Recovery Act

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Wagner Act

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Social Security Act

Securities and Exchange Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

National Labor Relations Board

Fair Labor Standards Act

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

parity

deficit spending

"packing" the Supreme Court