| 1934 | Europe • Germany
| Nuremberg Nazi Party rally headed by Adolf Hitler. Leni Riefenstahl films the rally and makes it into the propaganda film Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) which comes out in 1935. (9 May 1934) |
| 1937 | Europe • Spain | Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) paints Guernica that commemorates the German bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. |
| 1938 | North America • USA | The full length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown. |
| 1938 | Europe • Spain | George Orwell publishes Homage to Catalonia |
| 1939 | North America • USA | The film The Wizard of Oz is released. |
| 1939 | North America • USA | John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1939 | North America • USA | The film Gone with the Wind is released. |
| 1942 | North America • USA | Edward Hopper paints Nighthawks |
| 1943 | North America • USA | The film Casablanca is released. |
| 1945 | Europe • Great Britain | George Orwell publishes Animal Farm. |
| 1949 | North America • USA | Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman opens. |
| 1949 | Europe • France
| Paris Match is founded as a quality weekly using extensive photo-reportage. (March 1949) |
| 1951 | North America • USA | J. D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye |
| 1951 | Europe • Great Britain | The Festival of Britain is held to mark to centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851. |
| 1953 | Global | James Watson and Francis Crick announce that DNA has the form of a double helix and go on to receive the Nobel prize for their work. Their work is partially based on the 1952 work of Rosalind Franklin who had produced x-ray evidence and notes on the DNA molecule. |
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