New Deal
Washington steps in with public works, bank rules and pensions
Taking office in March 1933 at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt pushed through deposit insurance, public works for millions of jobless and the Tennessee Valley Authority in his first hundred days, and Social Security in 1935. The federal government's role in the economy grew sharply.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 15 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 6 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 14 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 15 years later
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 16 years later
Europe
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 14 years earlier
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 5 years earlier
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — same year
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 3 years later
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 8 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 4 years earlier
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 3 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 8 years later
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 9 years later
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 12 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 25 years earlier
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 18 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 17 years earlier
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 1 year earlier
- 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran — 8 years later
Africa
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 11 years earlier
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 2 years later
- 1948 Apartheid begins in South Africa — 15 years later
- 1952 Egyptian revolution of 1952 — 19 years later
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — 23 years later
Asia
- 1931 China floods — 2 years earlier
- 1931 Mukden Incident — 2 years earlier
- 1934–1935 Long March — 1 year later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 12 years later
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 20 years later
Oceania
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 21 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 3 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 8 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 9 years later
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Nikola Tesla (aged 77)
- Marie Curie (aged 66)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 64)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 62)
- Winston Churchill (aged 59)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 55)
- Albert Einstein (aged 54)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 52)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (aged 52)
- Adolf Hitler (aged 44)