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| 1930 |
| | | The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act introduces a US protectionist policy | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Presidential candidate F.D. Roosevelt pledges himself at the Democratic convention to deliver 'a new deal for the American people' | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Unemployment in Britain reaches three million, or more than 25% of the work force | |
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| 1932 |
| | | De Valera withholds farmers' annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a trade war | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Unemployment in Germany rises during the world-wide depression to the unprecedented level of 6 million | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Gustav Krupp and his son Alfried, Germany’s main manufacturers of armaments, join the Nazi party | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the largest project launched in the first hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal | |
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| 1933 |
| | | 25% of workers in Canada are unemployed as the Depression continues to deepen | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Strikers in Vancouver begin the On-to-Ottawa Trek, to take their grievances to government | |
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