1930

• Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience campaign in India
• The Great Depression deepens
• In German elections, Socialists and Communists win more seats, starting the set-up of events to come

1931

• Mrs. Hattie T. Caraway (Arkansas), is first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate
• William Chamberlain born

1932

• Japan occupies Shanghai
• Lindbergh baby kidnapped
• Nazis win more seat in Germany
• Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 32nd president;introduces "New Deal"
• Brave New Worldpublished

1933

• Prohibition is repealed
• Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
• U.S. banks close