5. The year is 1930. A.A. Milne signs the first literary character licensing agreement for his Winnie-the-Pooh franchise. Richard Drew invents Scotch tape, and James Deware invents Twinkies. But what else DOES NOT happen that same year?
From Quiz U.S. Events of the 1930s: What Didn't Happen?
Answer:
The New York Stock Exchange crashes.
In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, not 1930, more than $30 billion were lost from total value of stocks and shares on the New York Stock Exchange (more than the federal budget tenfold at the time). Thus began the Great Depression.
The term "Hooverville" was first used in 1930 by a Democratic Senator, and it caught on. Between 1929 and 1933, more than 100,000 businesses failed. Consequently, Hoovervilles arose throughout the country -- shantytowns made of cardboard, tin, and other materials for the new homeless families. The largest of these was in New York City's Central Park, but nearly every city in the USA had one. They were named after President Hoover, whose policies had failed to provide an economic safety net for these people or even immediate, temporary relief from hunger, homelessness, disease, and despair.
In December 1930, Secretary of Labor Doak began the Mexican Repatriation. Throughout the entire decade were Mexicans and Mexican-American citizens of the U.S. deported en masse from California to Mexico, without due process. Many were asked to leave "voluntarily" or risk being banned for life. The justification, as it were, was that Hispanic migrant workers were taking away agricultural jobs to which white men were entitled. That many who were deported were children and native-born American citizens was not considered.
The London Naval Treaty's full name was the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament. It regulated submarine warfare and limited shipbuilding. Other signatory states were Italy and France.