1930-1940

By clairefoltz

  • Nazi party becomes the second largest political party in Germany

  • CBS broadcasts the New York Philharmonic live over the radio for the first time

  • Congress and President Hoover approve the Star Spangled Banner

  • Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic

  • FDR accepts the Democratic nomination for president of the U.S.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • FDR gives his first radio "fireside chat"

  • Dust storm ravages several Midwestern and Western states

  • the first prisoners are delivered to Alcatraz Prison on San Fransisco Bay

  • the first around the world telephone conversation takes place

  • the Nazis revoke German citizenship for all Jews

  • African American athlete, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics

  • FDR is inaguarted for the second time

  • Orson Welles airs his famous War of the Worlds broadcast on CBS radio

  • New York City holds the Worlds Fair

  • Hitler invades Norway, Denmark