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The Twenties in America
Flappers, prohibition, jazz, the
    Lost Generation and the Marx
    Brothers.

The Forties in America
World War II, Amos 'n' Andy,
    Comics, The Hindenburg, and
    the Marx Brothers.

The Fifties in America
I Love Lucy, 3-D, Flying Saucers,
    Nixon's Checkers Speech, and
    Brown v. Board of Education.

The Sixties in America
Alice's Restaurant, Altamont,
    Biafra, Flower Children, the Pill,
    & the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Seventies in America
Bellbottoms, Nixon, Fonda, Jaws
    & the Equal Rights Amendment.

The Eighties in America
Reagan, AIDS, the Challenger
    & MTV, Yuppies and "Who Shot
    J.R."

The Nineties in America
The Gulf War, dot-coms,
    impeachment, grunge, Y2K


The Thirties in America
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The thirties in America
Table of Contents

A
Academy Awards
Adams, Ansel
Addams, Jane
Adler Planetarium
Administrative Reorganization Act of 1939
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Advertising in Canada
Advertising in United States
African Americans
Agriculture Adjustment Acts
Agriculture in Canada
Agriculture in United States
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Air mail route scandal of 1930
Air pollution
Airships
Akron disaster
Alcatraz federal prison
Alcoholics Anonymous
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Federation of Labor
American Gothic
American Liberty League
Amos 'n' Andy
Anderson, Marian
Anti-Racketeering Act of 1934
Anti-Semitism
Apple Mary
Archaeology
Archambault Report
Architecture
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Armstrong, Louis
Art movements
Asia
Asian Americans
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Mary
Astronomy
Atherton Report on San Francisco police corruption
Auto racing
Automobiles and auto manufacturing
Aviation and aeronautics
Awake and Sing!

B
Bank Holiday
Bank of United States failure
Banking Act of 1933
Banking Act of 1935
Banking in the Canada
Banking in United States
Barker gang
Barrow, Clyde, and Bonnie Parker
Bascom, Earl W.
Baseball
Baseball Hall of Fame, dedication of
Basie, Count
Basketball
Bathysphere
Beard, Charles A.
Beatty, Clyde
Bennett, Richard Bedford
Benny, Jack
Benton, Thomas Hart
Berkeley, Busby
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Bingo
Birth control
Black Empire
Black holes, theory of
Black Monday
Black No More
Black, Hugo L.
Blondie
"Blondie" films
Blood banks
Bonus Army March
Book publishing
Boulder Dam
Boxing
Braddock, James J.
"Brains Trust"
Brandeis, Louis D.
Bread lines and soup kitchens
Breedlove v. Suttles
Bringing Up Baby
Broadway musicals
Brown v. Mississippi
Brownlee, John Edward
Buck, Pearl S.
Budge, Don
Business and the economy in Canada
Business and the economy in United States
Butler, Smedley
Byrd, Richard E.

C
Cagney, James
Calder, Alexander
Caldwell, Erskine
Canada and Great Britain
Canada, U.S. investments in
Canadian minority communities
Canadian nationalism
Canadian regionalism
Cancer
Capone, Al
Capra, Frank
Car radios
Carter family
Carter v. Carter Coal Co.
Chaplin, Charles
Charlie Chan films
Chemistry
Chicago World's Fair
The Children's Hour
Christie Pits riot
Chrysler Building
City Lights
Civil rights and liberties in Canada
Civil rights and liberties in United States
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cleveland "torso" murders
Cohan, George M.
Coinage
Collier, John
Comic strips
Commodity Credit Corporation
Communications in Canada
Communications in United States
Communism
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Congress, U.S.
Conservatism in U.S. politics
Consumers Union of United States
Contract bridge
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Corrigan, Douglas "Wrong-Way," flight
Coughlin, Father Charles E.
Crane, Hart
Crater (Judge) disappearance
Credit and debt in Canada
Credit and debt in United States
Crimes and scandals
Curry, John Stuart
Curtis, Charles
Cyclotron

D
Dance
Davis, Bette
Day of the Locust
Day, Dorothy
DC-3
Dean, Dizzy
DeJonge v. Oregon
Delaware River Project
Demographics of Canada
Demographics of United States
Design for Living
Destry Rides Again
Dewey, John
The Diary of a Country Priest
Dick Tracy
Dillinger, John
Dionne quintuplets
Dorsey, Tommy
Dracula
Drive-in theaters
Dubinsky, David
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dust Bowl
Dutch elm disease

E
Earhart, Amelia
Economy Act of 1933
Ecstasy
Education in Canada
Education in United States
Einstein, Albert
Elections of 1932, U.S.
Elections of 1936, U.S.
Elections, Canadian
Elections, midterm, U.S.
Electric razors
Electron microscope
Elixir sulfanilamide scandal
Ellington, Duke
Empire State Building
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Europe
Evian Conference
Export-Import Bank

F
Fads
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Fallingwater house
Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota
Farmers' Organizations
Farnsworth, Philo T.
Fascism in Canada
Fascism in United States
Fashions and clothing
Father Divine
Faulkner, William
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Credit Union Act of 1934
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938
Federal Housing Administration
Federal National Mortgage Association
Federal Power Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Theatre Project
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Writers' Project
Fetchit, Stepin
Fibber McGee and Molly
Field Guide to the Birds
Fields, W. C.
Film
Film serials
"Fireside Chats," Roosevelt's
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Five Families of New York
Flash Gordon
Fleming, Victor
Flint Sit-down Strike
Floyd, Pretty Boy
Fluorescent lighting
Food processing
Food Stamp program
Football
Ford Foundation
Ford, Henry
Ford, John
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938
Foreign policy, Canadian
Foreign policy, U.S.
Fort Knox
Fortune magazine
Forty-Second Street
Four Horsemen vs. Three Musketeers
Foxx, Jimmie
Frankenstein films
Freaks
Freon
Frost, Robert
Frozen food marketing
The Functions of the Executive
Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict

G
Gable, Clark
Gambling
Gangster films
Garbo, Greta
Garner, John Nance
Gehrig, Lou
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932
George VI visit to North America
George Washington Bridge
German-American Bund
Gershwin, George
Glass-Steagall Act
"God Bless America"
Goddard, Robert H.
Gold Clause Cases
Gold Reserve act of 1934
Golf
Gone with the Wind
The Good Earth
Good Neighbor Policy
Goodman, Benny
Graham, Martha
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Hotel
The Grapes of Wrath
Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe
Great Depression in Canada
Great Depression in United States
Great New England hurricane of 1938
The Green Pastures
Greenfield Village
Gropius House
Grosjean v. American Press Co.
Gross national product of Canada
Gross national product of United States
Group Theatre
Grovey v. Townsend
Gunther, John
Guthrie, Woody

H
Hague v. Congress of Industrial Organizations
Hairstyles
Haiti, American occupation of
Hammett, Dashiell
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
Harlem on the Prairie
Harlem Renaissance
Harlow, Jean
Hatch Act of 1939
Hawk's Nest Tunnel
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Hays Code
Health care in Canada
Health care in United States
Hearing aids
Heart-lung machine
Heat wave of 1931
Hellman, Lillian
Hell's Angels
Hellzapoppin'
Hemingway, Ernest
Hepburn, Katharine
Hindenburg disaster
Historiography of the 1930's
Hobbies
Hockey
Holiday, Billie
Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell
Home furnishings
Homelessness and Hoboes
Homosexuality and gay rights
Hoover, Herbert
"Hoovervilles"
Horror films
Horse racing
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Housing in Canada
Housing in United States
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hughes, Howard
Hull, Cordell
Humphrey's Executor v. United States
Hutton, Betty

I
"I Am" movement
IBM Electric Typewriter
Ickes, Harold LeClaire
I'd Rather Be Right
Imitation of Life
Immigration to Canada
Immigration to United States
Income and wages in Canada
Income and wages in United States
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
Inflation in Canada
Inflation in United States
The Informer
Instant coffee
Insull Utilities Trusts collapse of 1932
Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace
International trade of Canada
International trade of United States
Inventions
Invisible Man
Isolationism
It Happened One Night

J
Japanese aggression, U.S. reaction
Japanese American Citizens League
Jews in Canada
Jews in United States
Jim Crow in the U.S. South
John Muir Trail
Johnson v. Zerbst
Johnson, Robert
Joliet Prison riot
The Joy of Cooking

K
Karloff, Boris
Kaufman, George S., and Moss Hart
Kelly, Machine Gun
Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act of 1934
King Kong
King, William Lyon Mackenzie

L
Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
Labor strikes
La Guardia, Fiorello
Landon, Alf
Lange, Dorothea
The Last Mile
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latinos
Laurel and Hardy
League of Nations
Ledbetter, Huddie
Lee, Gypsy Rose
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, Sinclair
Life Begins at Forty
Life magazine
Li'l Abner
Lincoln Continental Mark I
Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Literature in Canada
Literature in United States
Little Caesar
Little Orphan Annie
Lobotomy
London Economic Conference
London Naval Treaty of 1930
Long Beach earthquake of 1933
Long, Huey
Look magazine
Louis, Joe
Lovell v. City of Griffin
Luce, Henry R.
Luciano, Charles "Lucky"
Ludlow Amendment
Lynchings

M
MacArthur, Douglas
McDaniel, Hattie
MacLeish, Archibald
Magazines
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Manchuria, Japanese occupation of
Marathon Dance Craze
Marble, Alice
March of Dimes
Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
Marquand, John P.
Marx Brothers
Massie trial
Medicine
Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
Mencken, Henry Louis
The Merry Widow
Mexico
Micheaux, Oscar
Mickey Mouse
Migrations
Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act of 1934
Miller-Tydings Act of 1937
Miller, Glenn
Minneapolis Teamster Strike of 1934
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
"Mr. Moto" films
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Modern Corporation and Private Property
Modern Times
Monopoly
Moody, Helen Wills
Morgenthau, Henry T., Jr.
Morro Castle disaster
Motion Picture Production Code of 1930
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Muni, Paul
Music: Classical
Music: jazz
Music: popular
Mutiny on the Bounty
Muzak

N
Nancy Drew novels
Nation of Islam
Nat'l. Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Manufacturers
National Council of Negro Women
National debt of United States
National Film Act of 1939
National Firearms Act of 1934
National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
National Labor Relations Act of 1935
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
National Negro Congress
National Parks of Canada
National Parks of United States
National Recovery Administration
National Wildlife Federation
National Youth Administration
Native Americans
Natural disasters
Natural Gas Act of 1938
Natural resources, exploitation of
Naval forces
Nazi Germany and U.S. appeasement
Near v. Minnesota
Nebbia v. New York
Nebraska's unicameral legislature
Negro Leagues
Ness, Eliot
Neutrality Acts
Neutron star theory
Nevada gambling
New Deal
New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann
New York World's Fair
Newspapers, Canadian
Newspapers, U.S.
Nitti, Frank
Nixon v. Condon
Nobel Prizes
Non-Partisan League
Norris-La Guardia Act
North American regionalism
Northrup, John Howard
Nuclear fission, discovery of
Nye Committee
Nylon, invention of

O
Odets, Clifford
O'Gorman and Young v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Ohio Penitentiary fire
Ohio River flood of 1937
Oklahoma Welfare Act of 1936
Olympic Games of 1932 (Summer)
Olympic Games of 1932 (Winter)
Olympic Games of 1936 (Summer)
Olympic Games of 1936 (Winter)
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs
O'Neill, Eugene
Organized crime
Ott, Mel
Ottawa Agreements
Our Town
Owens, Jesse

P
Palko v. Connecticut
Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan
Panay incident
Parking meters
Patterns of Culture
Pauling, Linus
Peace movement
Pearson, Drew
Pendergast, Thomas Joseph
The People's Forests
Perkins, Frances
The Petrified Forest
Philippine Independence Act of 1934
Philippine Islands
Philosophy and philosophers during the 1930's
Photography
Physics
Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937
Pluto, discovery of
Polio
Porgy and Bess
Pornography
Positron, discovery of
Post, Wiley
Postage stamps
Prohibition, repeal of
Psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis
Public accommodations in Canada
Public accommodations in United States
Public Utilities Act of 1935
"Purge of 1938"

QR
Quarantine speech, Roosevelt's
Race riots
Racial discrimination
Radar, invention of
Radio astronomy
Radio in Canada
Radio in United States
Rand, Sally
Ranger, USS
Rayburn, Samuel T.
RCA and the "radio trust"
Recession of 1937-1938
Reciprocal Trade Act of 1936
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Recording industry
Recreation
refrigerators, home
Religion in Canada
Religion in United States
Resettlement Administration
Reuther, Walter P.
Revenue Acts
Rice, Elmer
Richter scale, creation of
Riggs, Bobby
Rivera's Rockefeller Center mural
Roberts, Owen J.
Robeson, Paul
Robinson-Patman Act of 1936
Robinson, Edward G.
Robinson, Joseph Taylor
Rockefeller Center
Rocketry
Rogers, Will
Rooney, Mickey
Roosevelt assassination attempt
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt's first one hundred days
Rural Electrification Act of 1935
Ruth, Babe

S
St. Lawrence Seaway Treaty
St. Louis incident
San Francisco Bay bridges
Sarzen, Gene
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Schultz, Dutch
Schuyler, George S.
Science and technology
Science fiction
Scottsboro trials
Screwball comedy
Seabiscuit
Securities and Exchange Commission
Serenade
Sex and sex education
Sexually transmitted diseases
Shaw, Artie
Sherwood, Robert E.
Shore, Eddie
Simpson, Wallis
Since Yesterday
Sinclair, Upton
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Bessie
Smoking and tobacco
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Soap Operas
Soccer
Social Credit
Social sciences during the 1930's
Social Security Act of 1935
Socialist Parties
Soil Conservation Service
Sons of the Pioneers
Soviet Union and North America
Spanish Civil War and North America
Sparling, Gordon
Sports in Canada
Sports in United States
Squalus, USS, sinking and salvage
Stagecoach
"Star-Spangled Banner"
Steinbeck, John
Stimson, Henry L.
The Story of Philosophy
Stromberg v. California
Studs Lonigan trilogy
Supermarkets
Supreme Court packing plan
Supreme Court, U.S.

T
"Tarzan" films
Taylor Grazing Act of 1934
Telephone technology and service
Television technology
Temple, Shirley
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennis
Texas school explosion of 1937
Thalberg, Irving
Theater in Canada
Theater in United States
Theology and theologians during the 1930's
The Thin Man
Thomas, Norman
Thousand Islands Bridge
Tilden, Bill
Timberline Lodge
Tobacco Road
Todd, Thelma
Top Hat
Townsend Plan
Tracy, Spencer
Trail smelter dispute
Trans World Airline
Transportation, developments in
Travel in Canada
Travel in United States
Triborough Bridge
Twentieth Amendment
Twenty-First Amendment
Typhus immunization, discovery of

U
U.S.A. Trilogy
Ultramares Corporation v. Touche
Ulysses Trial
Unemployment in Canada
Unemployment in United States
Unionism in Canada
Unionism in United States
United States v. Butler
U.S. v. Carolene Products Co.
U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.
Urbanization in Canada
Urbanization in United States

V
Vander Meer, Johnny
Vanderbilt Custody Trial
Vending machines
Veterans Administration
Voting rights

W
Wagner-Steagall Housing Act
Wagner, Robert F.
Walker, James John
Wallace, Henry A.
The War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Weissmuller, Johnny
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
West, Mae
West, Nathaniel
Westerns
Westminster, Statute of
Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938
Whitney Museum of American Art
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Wilderness Society
Winter War
The Wizard of Oz
Wolfe, Thomas
Wood, Grant
Works Progress Administration
World War I war debts
World War II and Canada
World War II and United States
Wray, Fay
Wright, Frank Lloyd

XYZ
Xerography, invention of
The Yearling
You Can't Take It with You
Young Mr. Lincoln
Zangara, Giuseppe

Appendixes
Entertainment: Academy Awards for Films
Entert.: Major Broadway Plays and Awards
Entertainment: Major films of the 1930's
Entertainment: Major Radio Programs
Glossary
Legislation: Major U.S. Legislation
Legislation: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Literature: Best-Selling Books in U.S.
Music: Popular Musicians
Music: Top-Selling U.S. Recordings
Sports: Winners of Major Events
Time Line


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