Franklin D Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. President
(1933-1945)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
Picturing the 1930s
This is a must see! The Smithsonian American Art Museum has put together a virtual museum / theater with artwork, video clips
from the time period and music. Wander around the museum and click on what interests you!
Education: All public school buses are required to be yellow.
"As the war with Nazi Germany spread in Europe and American
factories were increasingly called on to supply the Allied war
effort, the American economy began to recover from the Depression.
Once this country entered the war, every institution, including the
schools, was dominated by the war effort."
Source: Foundations of American Education,
Sixth Edition page 162 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
see
1941 for next event...
Entertainment: NBC establishes the first regular television broadcasts in the United States.
Family:
1939 Vardiman Family Reunion in Marshall, Missouri
Food: Nestle' develops the chocolate "morsel."
Anderson, Jean
American Century Cookbook. p 225
Literature: John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.
- Military:
Holocaust begins
was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during
World War II
- Photography:
Ansel Adams
(American Scenic Wilderness Photographer 1933-1942)
Dorothea Lange
(Documentary Photographer of Migrant Workers after the Dust Bowl 1935-1939)
World Fair celebrating building the world of
tomorrow; for peace and freedom
New York, New York, U.S. in 1939-40
(30 April - 31 October 1939) & (11 May - 27
October 1940)
6th of 8 World Fairs held in America - 1876, 1893, 1904, 1915, 1933,
1939, 1962, 1964
Location: Flushing Meadows, Queens
(the Corona Dups)
(1200 acres)
Architectural Wonder: The most striking were the blindingly
white, 700-foot tall Trylon (triangular pylone) and its companion,
the spherical Perisphere. These precise geometric forms were
connected by a 900-foot, elevated ramp - the Helicline - that
offered fairgoers panoramic views of the site.
The fair site was divided into seven zones each with a main
exhibition hall. Painted avenues moved from the heart of the fair to
it's periphery in progressively deepening shades. Germany did not
participate. The Soviet Pavilion was demolished between the 1939 and
1940 openings (because Hitler and Stalin signed their infamous
nonaggression pact). The Japanese Pavilion, was arsoned after Pearl
Harbor was bombed by the Japanese on 7 December 1941.
Participating Nations: 33
Visitors: 44.9 million
Novelties: Air conditioning, color film, nylon stockings,
television
Mattie, Erik World's Fairs Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, New York: New York.
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