Major Events from 1930-1950

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Sadly, she's never found.

1932

"The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are."(Golding 22)

Famine begins in the USSR.

1932

"What are they-oh God! I'm hungry-"(Golding 144)

Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany and has dictatorial powers

1933

"He didn't say. He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up."(Golding 120)

Mussolini Invades Ethiopia.

1935

"He was not really far from the Castle Rock, and during the first panic he had thought he heard sound of pursuit."(Golding 140)

King Edward VIII gives up his throne to marry Wallace W. Simpson.

1936

"Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass."

Amelia Earhart lost in the Pacific.

1937

"He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn't land here. Not in a plane with wheels."(Golding 2)

Great Britain declares war on Germany.

1939

"We're English, and the English are best at everything."(Golding 29)

Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

1941

"Round the bend." "Bomb happy." "Crackers."(Golding 125)

Doomsday occurs.

1944

"Perhaps one of those legendary storms of the Pacific has shifted it here."(Golding 55)

Atomic bombs are dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

1945

"Like a bomb!"(Golding 17)

Color TV is invented.

1951

"And an airplane, and a TV set,"(Golding 46)

Racial segregation is schools ruled unconstitutional.

1954

"Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law."(Golding 44)