1936 -Margaret Mitchell writes Gonewith the Wind an American classic. 1937 -Roosevelt's famous attempt to pack the Supreme Court fails. 1937 -A steel strike happens in Chicago. Fair Labor Standards Act makes it illegal to employ child labor. Wells's radio production of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds causes a national panic because of the believability of it.
Severe recession hits the United States economy because of the depression.
1939 -Author John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath , which was later turned into a movie that we happened to watch in American History class. 1939 -Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first color films.