1936
Depression-era date
1936 is commonly referenced as a year of historical significance: the Berlin Olympics, the start of the Spanish Civil War, Roosevelt's reelection landslide.
In casual speech, something from 1936 suggests extreme age or obsolescence: This computer is from 1936 or something.
- Berlin Olympics1936 Summer Games
- OlympiaWashington state's seat
- gold medalAward for winning
- Nazi propagandaGerman fascist state messaging
track and field · diving · gymnastics · swimming · rowing · boxing · equestrian
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- MussoliniItalian fascist premier
- fascismUltranationalist dictatorial political system
New Deal · totalitarianism · Third Reich · Franco · Chiang Kai-shek · appeasement · propaganda · Gestapo
1930s global economic crisis
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
- Hoover DamConcrete arch-gravity structure on Colorado
- KeynesianismInterventionist macroeconomic theory
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
breadlines · Hooverville · social security · labor strikes · sit-down strikes · sharecroppers · migrant workers · WPA
Rhythmic big-band jazz genre
- art decoGeometric interwar design movement
- HindenburgIll-fated German dirigible
- zeppelinRigid lighter-than-air craft
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
big band · Benny Goodman · talkies · Modern Times · radio · Life magazine · Margaret Mitchell
1936-1939 Iberian ideological conflict
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- alliesCooperative partners united together
- civil warDomestic armed conflict
- FrancoSpanish surname, famous dictator
Jesse Owens
- Berlin Olympics1936 Summer Games
- OlympiaWashington state's seat
- gold medalAward for winning
Nazi propaganda · track and field · diving · gymnastics · swimming · rowing · boxing · equestrian
Hitler
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- MussoliniItalian fascist premier
fascism · New Deal · totalitarianism · Third Reich · Franco · Chiang Kai-shek · appeasement · propaganda · Gestapo · Nuremberg Laws
Great Depression
1930s global economic crisis
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
- Hoover DamConcrete arch-gravity structure on Colorado
- KeynesianismInterventionist macroeconomic theory
unemployment · breadlines · Hooverville · social security · labor strikes · sit-down strikes · sharecroppers · migrant workers · WPA · bank failures
swing music
Rhythmic big-band jazz genre
- art decoGeometric interwar design movement
- HindenburgIll-fated German dirigible
- zeppelinRigid lighter-than-air craft
jazz · big band · Benny Goodman · talkies · Modern Times · radio · Life magazine · Margaret Mitchell
Spanish Civil War
1936-1939 Iberian ideological conflict
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- alliesCooperative partners united together
- civil warDomestic armed conflict