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| 1930 Mahatma Gandhi defies British laws and makes salt. Chinese Nationalists embark on an attempt at getting rid of Mao's Red Army. |
1931 Sept. 18: Japanese Army invades Manchuria Statute of Westminister is passed. |
| 1932 Nov. 8: Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President of the United States The Europeans agree to reduce Germany's reparation payments by 90% if America will do the same for their war debts. Japan takes control of Manchuria, and China calls to the League of Nations to sort things out - as a result Japan leaves the League of Nations. |
1933 Jan. 30: Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg Feb. 27: German Reichstag burns down; communists blamed, arrested. Mar. 23: Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatorial power July 14: Nazi party declared official party of Germany; all other parties banned Oct. 14: Germany quits League of Nations |
| 1934 June 30: Hitler orders murder of SA Chief Ernst Roehm in "Night of the Long Knives" Aug. 2: German President Paul von Hindenburg dies Aug. 19: Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor; assumes the title of Fuhrer USSR enters the League of Nations. Spanish civil war begins. (1934 - 1940) Chinese Red Army makes it's Long March. |
1935 Mar. 16: Military conscription introduced in Germany in violation of Versailles treaty Sept. 15: Nuremberg race laws promulgated, deprive Jews of citizenship Oct. 3: Italian Army invades Ethiopia The British government created a new Indian constitiution giving Indians more political power. The Seventh (and last) Comintern Congress of USSR ordered Communist parties through out the world to join the anti-fascist parties. |
| 1936 Mar. 7: German troops remilitarize the Rhineland in violation of Versailles treaty May 9: Italian campaign in Ethiopia ends July 17: Spanish Civil War breaks out; Hitler and Mussolini send aid to Franco Aug. 1: Olympics held in Berlin Oct. 1: Franco becomes dictator of Spain Major purge of the Communist party in USSR. Edward VIII of Great Britain is crowned, and abdicates so he can marry a divorced women. His brother George VI is crowned. Spanish civil war ends. |
1937 June 11: Josef Stalin begins purge of Red Army July 7: Full-scale war erupts between China and Japan Japan invades China. James Hillier and Albert Prebus (of the University of Toronto) unveil an electron microscope with 7000x magnification. Snow White is the first feature-length cartoon. Carlson invents the photocopier. Opening of the Golden Gate bridge. |
| 1938 Mar. 12: Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed Sept. 30: Munich conference held to solve Sudeten question Oct. 15: German troops occupy the Czech Sudetenland Nov 9-10: Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) |
1939 Mar. 15-16: German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement Mar. 28: Spanish Civil War ends May 22: Rome-Berlin "Axis" alliance formed Aug. 23: Nazi-Soviet nonagression pact signed Sept. 1: German Army invades Poland Sept. 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany Sept. 17: Red Army invades Poland in accordance with Nazi-Soviet Pact Sept. 27: Warsaw falls to the Nazis Nov. 30: Red Army attacks Finland Dec. 14: Soviet Union kicked out of League of Nations |
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