The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. The decade started off well, with the stock market rising again early in 1930. However, late in 1930 stocks and the economy went down once again and this time it didn't get better. People began to feel the effects of the Depression in 1931 and it got progressively worse until it reached the low point in 1933. The gloomy conditions that arose led to a religious revival and the rise of conservatism that rejected the liberalism of the 1920s, which began to be viewed as a decade of "sin." After 1933, the economy began a gradual recovery which wouldn't reach the level of prosperity of 1930 until the second World War. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism dominated as the solution adopting war-oriented economic policies such as Stalin's Five Year Plans, all of them described as totalitarian regimes. In East Asia, the rise of militarism occurred.
In Western Europe, Australia and the United States, more progressive reforms occurred as opposed to the extreme measures sought elsewhere. Roosevelt's New Deal attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severely negative growth. Ultimately, it would be the beginning of World War II in 1939 that would end the depression.
Technology
Ub Iwerks produces the first Color Sound Cartoon in 1930, a Flip the Frog cartoon entitled: "Fiddlesticks."
Warner Brothers releases the first All-Talking All-Color wide-screen movie, Song of the Flame, in 1930. In 1930 alone, Warner Brother releases ten All-Color All-Talking feature movies in Technicolor and scores of shorts and features with color sequences.
Ub Iwerks produces the first sound cartoon in color Technicolor in 1930. It was the first cartoon in his Flip the Frog cartoon series.
In the Soviet Union, agricultural collectivization and rapid industralization take place, and the Great Purge occurs, in which much of the Soviet political and military establishment is eliminated
"Swing" music starts becoming popular (from 1935 onward). It gradually replaces the sweet form of Jazz that had been popular for the first half of the decade.
Flip the Frog becomes the first cartoon character to star in a color (Technicolor) cartoon in sound.
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