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FILM 1930's

child actors of her time. She started her carrer in 1931 and quit acting in 1969. Over her carrer she stared in 14 short films, 43 featured films and 25 storybook movies. ||  || Gone with the Wind premiered in 1939 in Atlanta Georgia. It was one of the biggest movies in the 30's and was very popular. In the mid 40's it went on to win many awards. || The Wizard of Oz. This movie is a movie that needs no interductoin. This movie ended the 30's with a bang! In June 1939 was when the Wizard of Oz held its first preview.The world premear was on August 12, 1939. This film took flight right after the first premear.
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 * Shirley Temple was on of the youngest

In the 1920's is when film really started to develope. there were no more silent films. In the 30's the movie outlines where alot more exciting and realistic. The 20's brought us movies like Don Juan, The Mark of Zorro, Rohin Hood, and Pollyanna. The 30's gave us many of the Shirley Temple classics, Gone With the Wind, Wizard of Oz,

Dance in the 20's and 30's was crazy! It took alot of "swingin." Some of the most popular dances were the Charelston, and Swing dancing.

The 1920's and 30's was really the time of Jazz and Blues. Music was now used to express feelings and to get people on their feet.

"IT DONT MEAN A THING IF IT AINT GOT THAT SWING"

Prohibition was when there could be no alcohol. It lasted from 1920-1933 This lead to people illegally making and consuming alcohol. Once Alcohol was legalized people walked through the streets drinking beer in celibration
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media type="custom" key="607091" 1939 The Uranium Advisory Committee reported to President Roosevelt on the possibility of using a controlled chain reaction to produce powerful bombs. This would lead to the production of the A-Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.  In 1930 the first Particle Accelerator was built. A particle accelerator takes atoms and accelerates them close to the speed of light. They are used in nuclear fission to split atoms. It uses an array of electric fields to accelerate something to very high speeds. The first atom was split with the particle accelerator in 1932. 1938 uranium fission was achieved. Scientist hoped they could use this to produce an unlimited amount of energy.  1939 The Uranium Advisory Committee reported to President Roosevelt on the possibility of using a controlled chain reaction to produce powerful bombs. This would lead to the production of the A-Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

media type="custom" key="607093" In 1933 the first drive-in theatre opens in Camden, New Jersey. This is the first drive-in theatre in the world.  The semi-automatic is introduced by Oldsmobile.

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 * **Ballpoint Pen**  - 1938
 * **BBC Television ** - 1932 first regular TV broadcasts
 * **Electric Razor ** - 1931 by Jacob Schick
 * **Electron Microscope ** - 1933
 * **Frequency Modulation ** **FM **- 1939 by Edwin H Armstrong - sound by radio waves
 * **Helicopter ** - 1936
 * **Jet Engine ** - 1930 by Frank Whittle
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Nylon ** - 1931 by Wallace Corothers - artificial silk
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Magnetic Recording ** - 1936 audio tapes
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Photocopier ** - 1938 by Chester Carlston
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Polaroid ** - 1932 by Edwin Herbert Land
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Radar (for Aircraft) ** - 1935 Scotland by Robert Watson-Watt
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Radio Telescope ** - 1932 by Karl Jansky
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Sticky Tape ** - 1930

media type="custom" key="622687"__1920's__

- Social Casework (Freud) - Birth Control Movement (Margaret Sanger) - Women's suffrage (1920) women's movement died - American Indians given "citizenship" - Prohibition - Discovery of insulin

__1930's__

- Rank and file movement (socialist economic programs) - Social work today founded (1934) - Depression- the Okies - New Deal - Social Security (1936) - Labor movements strong decade - ADC, unemployment insurance, the safety nets, height of urban political machinery