1930 - 1939

1917 - 1937 Gandhi's satyagraha (noncooperation) campaign against British rule.

For me [nonviolence] is both a means and an end.

Gandhi, 1933

Gandhi encouraged the use of spinning wheel in making Khadi cloth instead using imported textiles.

1930 Soccer's first World Cup in Uruguay.

1923 - 1934 Hitler rise to Fuhrer. Though he lost the election to Hinderburg on 1932 as German president, he forced Hinderburg to appoint him the chancellor next year. After Hinderburg died he proclaimed himself Fuhrer of the Third Reich.

Book burning campaign in 1933: Thousands of books by Jewish and left-wing authors were burned.

1934 Night of the Long Knives: Hitler murdered the leader of Nazi paramilitaries (Stormtroppers (SA)) Ernst Rohm in order to please the army.

1936 - 1939 Rhineland, Anschless, Sudetenland, then Czech.

1939 - 1940 Poland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France

1921 The first congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

1926 - 1928 Chiang Kai-shek defeated the warlords.

1927 Massacre of communists in China

1931 Japanese invade Manchuria

1934 The Long March (8,000 miles, or 12,500 km)

1937 Sino-Japanese War broke out in Beijing and Shanghai

1937 Rape of Nanjing

1941 China joined Allies

1922 - 1936 Mussolini raise to power, invaded Ethiopia, and formed the Axis. Ethiopia is the only independent nation in Africa. The emperor plead at the League of Nations but it had little effects.

Poorly armed Ethiopia warriors

1936 Abdication crisis: King Edward VIII chose love (a twice-married American socialite) over kingship.

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication_of_Edward_VIII

King's supporters

1933 - 1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalist rebellion won over pro-government Republican forces. Gerneral Franco took power as a dictator until his death in 1975.

This poster called for anarchists, communists, socialists and Republicans to unite against Nationalist.

1937 The Hindenburg airship disaster. 35 of 97 people onboard were killed.

Architecture

1900 - 1910 Nature style: Art Nouveau, Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila.

The Global Céleste at the Paris Expo 1900

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_Eiffel_et_le_Globe_C%C3%A9leste.jpg

1910 - 1920 Modernist

1920 - 1940 Art Deco: Chrysler Building in New York

1940 - 1970 Modernist: Le Corbusier

Unité d'habitation, Marseille, France, 1945, by Le Corbusier. Credit: http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=5234&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=58&itemCount=78&sysParentName=home&sysParentId=64

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

-- Le Corbuiser, 1923

1970 - High-tech: Sydney Opera House, Lloyd's building. Postmodernism