1930s

historical events: The Depression, The Dust Bowl, Ghandi's Salt March, Pluto discovered, Amelia Earhart is the first women to fly across the Atlantic, scientists split the atom, Golden Gate Bridge opens, WWII begins

prevailing values: family values

American cultural history 1930

literary texts:The Glass Key, Gone With the Wind, the Thin Man, Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Grapes of Wrath

major writers:William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot

films: Grand Illusion, Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, Triumph of the Will, King Kong, Stagecoach

Gone With The Wind (1939)	Winner
#6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)	Nominee
#29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	Nominee
#35. It Happened One Night (1934)	Winner
#43. King Kong (1933)
#49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
#54. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)	Winner
#63. Stagecoach (1939)	Nominee
#73. Wuthering Heights (1939)	Nominee
#76. City Lights (1931)
#81. Modern Times (1936)
#85. Duck Soup (1933)
#86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)	Winner
#87. Frankenstein (1931)

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musicians:Music of the 1930s

music genres:jazz

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