MAJOR EVENTS OF 30'S

India, Gandhi's Salt March an act of civil , against Empire rule..

Australia becomes independent

The Wall Street crash of 1929  lead to a failure of economic systems around the world.  

Unemployment by 1932 more than 20% of the UK workforce was unemployed, 24.5% in US, 27% in Canada and 30% in Germany.

The Dust Bowl caused by severe drought in the Great Plains of the US (the world's bread basket) made the depression worse as families lost their livelihoods and food was scarce.

Fascism, Nazism, and extreme Communism gained followers due to poverty around the world. 

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and the first Nazi concentration camp was established 

King George died in 1936 and was succeeded by his son Edward who would abdicate over the Government's refusal to allow him to marry Wallis Simpson.

Oswald Mosley formed  the British Union of Fascists in 1932,  as a result of the rejection of his proposals for responding to the Great Depression  by the Labour government.  The party was  banned outright in 1940 due to Nazi sympathies.

Prime Minister Chamberlain seeks  a policy of appeasement to keep Britain from sliding into another war.

Britain declared war in 1939 after Germany invaded Poland in breach of the agreement with Britain 

 Wiley Post from the US completes the first successful solo around-the-world flight 

 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. 

Malcolm Campbell breaks the land speed record by travelling over 300mph

 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 3 days and 19 hours, setting a new record.

 The Loch Ness Monster was first spotted 

  Donald Duck  introduced by Disney in an animated short story "The Little Wise Hen."

 Betty Boop made her debut. 

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