1930s-1950s

By Tito_Alegria
  • Period: to

    1930-1950

  • Great Depression

    "The Dirty Thirties"

  • 1931 the Empire State building was opened

  • •1932 - Two black American women, Louise Stokes and Tidye Pickett qualify for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, but are not allowed to compete.

  • Salary declined after Great Depression

    After the great depression salaries for professional athletes and teams rapidly declined.

  • 21st ammendment ended prohibition

  • 13 year old Marjorie Gestring won a gold medal in the spring board diving event.

  • Nazi germany invades poland starting world war 2

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  • - Phillip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, establishes the All-American Girls Softball League, the forerunner of the All-American Girls Baseball League (AAGBL).

  • D-Day Invasion of Normandy

  • atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima

  • Franklin Roosevelt dies Truman becomes president

  • Winston Churchhills iron curtain speech

  • employment act

  • Invention of polaroid camera

  • 1947 Jackie Robinson Breaks color barrier in baseball

  • Big Bang Theory Formulated

  • Soviet Union tests first atomic bomb