In June 1929, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, interrupted an early showing of the film 'All Quiet on the Western Front' for the first time, and it would not be the last.

By November 1930, the farmer who received $1.35 a bushel for his wheat last year now got 75 cents, and it had been a searing summer of drought.

On June 17, 1930, President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.

By 1930, fear stumbled towards panic, and in the last 60 days of that year, 600 banks closed their doors.

Germany's heavy reparations payments, combined with the global economic downturn, created an economic crisis that led to hyperinflation, unemployment, and widespread poverty. The government's attempts to address the crisis only made things worse.

The Weimar era in Germany was marked by a sense of anxiety and uncertainty, as people struggled to come to terms with the loss of World War I and the rise of Nazi power. This anxiety was reflected in the arts, particularly in the works of Bertolt Brecht and Franz Kafka.

The global economic downturn of the early 1930s was caused by a combination of factors, including overproduction, debt, and protectionism. This downturn led to widespread unemployment, poverty, and social unrest.

The Spanish monarchy was overthrown in 1931, following the election of a republican government in April of that year. King Alfonso XIII was forced to leave the country and the monarchy was replaced with a republic.

These are the years that help Hitler or enable Hitler to get into power... these are the years the Japanese militarists increasingly dominate the Japanese government, Japan moves into Manchuria...

On September 22nd, 1931, the American minister in China sent a telegram to the Secretary of State... it is my conviction that the steps taken must fall within any definition of war...

It has been estimated that in 1931 in Chicago alone the value of lost wages... was 2 million dollars each day relief expenditure to cover the deficiency was a mere 100,000 dollars a day...

In 1931, Governor Fred Bowser of Nevada announced the legalization of gambling in his state... and the birth of Las Vegas...