1930s
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s |
| Years: | 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 1930s was the decade that started on January 1, 1930 and ended on December 31, 1939.
[change] Events
- 1933 – Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
- The start of World War II
- Nancy Drew books debut
The 1930s was a bad time because of the depression, where people were sad.
[change] Important people
[change] World leaders
- King Faisal I (Iraq)
- King Ghazi (Iraq)
- King Faisal II (Iraq)
- President of the Executive Council W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
- President of the Executive Council Éamon de Valera (Irish Free State)
- Taoiseach Éamon de Valera (Éire)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
- Emir Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Kuwait)
- Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar (Portugal)
- Sultan Mohammed V (Morocco)
- Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage (New Zealand)
- President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
- Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog (South Africa)
- General Secretary Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
- President Alcalá Zamora (Spain)
- Prime Minister Manuel Azaña (Spain)
- Prime Minister Alejandro Lerroux (Spain)
- President (Syria)
- President Bahij al-Khatib (Syria)
- Bey (Crown Prince) Ahmad II (Tunisia)
- President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Turkey)
- King George V (United Kingdom)
- King Edward VIII (United Kingdom)
- King George VI (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (United Kingdom)
- President Herbert Hoover (United States)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States)
- Holy Father Pope Pius XI (Vatican)
- Adolf Hitler, German politician
- Pope Pius XI, Pope in the 1930s
- George V, British king
- Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR
- Benito Mussolini, Italian politician
- Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
- Louis Armstrong, Jazz musican
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States
- Dionne Quintuplets, Canadian siblings, first quintuplets to survive infancy
