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1930s: The world holding its breath
The world as it entered the 1930s
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1920s: Aftershocks of war
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1930s: The world holding its breath
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1940s: The world in flames
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What was first: 1900-1949
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1950s: Between fear and affluence
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1960s: Breaking chains, making change
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1970s: Finding new directions
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1980s: Between Chornobyl and Berlin
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1990s: Pass into the new millennium
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What was first: 1950-1999
Common questions
Why did fascism rise in Europe in the 1930s?
Because the Great Depression landed on top of unhealed anger from World War I. As banks failed and jobs vanished, democratic governments looked slow and helpless. Hence, millions in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere backed strongmen like Hitler and Mussolini who promised work, order, and restored national pride.
What era was the 1930s?
The 1930s were the interwar period, the uneasy stretch between World War I and World War II. Around the world, it is remembered as the decade of the Great Depression, when economic collapse, mass unemployment, and rising dictatorships pushed nation after nation toward the war that followed.