#1930s
5 entries tagged 1930s.
People (2)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd U.S. president, in office from 1933 to 1945, who led the country through the Depression and most of World War II and authorized the creation of the OSS and the Manhattan Project.
- Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death, building the totalitarian intelligence apparatus that shaped Soviet and Eastern bloc services for decades and establishing the Eastern European satellite system that triggered the Cold War.
Organizations (1)
- Nicaraguan National Guard Somoza's military force that served as army, police, and intelligence service, trained at U.S. military schools, whose dispersed officers formed the founding cadre of the Contras.
Events (1)
- Business Plot 1933 alleged conspiracy by Wall Street financiers including the DuPont family to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship.
Concepts (1)
- Fascism Fascism was the authoritarian nationalist ideology of interwar Europe that American sympathizers attempted to import in the 1930s via the Business Plot and other efforts, and whose remnants were recruited into U.S. intelligence via Operation Paperclip.