1930-1950 LOTF TimeLine

By pjpiggins

  • Stock market crash

  • the average American's income drops 40 percent to about $1,500 per year. Milk costs 14 cents a quart, eggs are a nickel a dozen and bread costs 9 cents a loaf. During this decade, 86,000 businesses fail and 9,000 banks go out of business.

  • Star Spangled Banner becomes USA's nathional anthem

  • Operation Barbarossa, an Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, took place.

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act

  • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • FDR goes on radio to talk directly with citizens and reassure them that the banking crisis has passed.

  • King Edward VIII of England gives up his throne to marry Wallace W. Simpson, "the woman I love."

  • Hindenberg Explosion

  • Orson Welles produces the book The War of the Worlds

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Operation T4 Begins

  • The Battle of Britain raged with Nazi bombings of military bases and London, known as the Blitz. Britain's Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious in its defense of the U.K.

  • Britain was forced to retreat from France in the Dunkirk evacuation.

  • Russian Revolution leader Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City.

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term.

  • The Nazis began a prolonged military blockade known as the Siege of Leningrad, which would not end until 1944.

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order commanding the relocation of Japanese Americans families from their homes and businesses to internment camps.

  • The Battle of Stalingrad began, the largest confrontation of Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union in an attempt to gain control of the city.

  • The post-Holocaust outbreak of violence known as the Kielce Pogrom in Poland was conducted by Polish soldiers, police officers and civilians who killed between 38 and 42 people.

  • the Population Registration Act was enacted in South Africa, requiring that each inhabitant of the country would be classified and registered according to his or her "race." It would not be repealed until 1991.

  • Truman signed the Treaty of San Francisco, a peace treaty with Japan on September 8, officially ending World War II.

  • the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation was illegal in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

  • Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  • Internationally, the world saw the explosion of the Hungarian Revolution on October 23, a revolution against the Soviet-backed Hungarian People's Republic

  • launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik, which orbited for three weeks and began the space race and the space age.

  • the European Economic Community was established by a treaty signed by representatives of France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

  • between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon

  • Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution, became the dictator of Cuba and brought communism to the Caribbean country.

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