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1932
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 Jul 31 1932 - Nazis score
resounding victory in national elections. Hitler demands that as head of the largest party
President Hindenburg appoint him Chancellor. |
1933
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| Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. |
 May 7, 1933 -
Varzi wins controversial Tripoli Grand Prix under accusations of race fixing. SEE MORE |
| Mar 20, 1933 - First concentration camp opens at Dachau. |
| Apr 1, 1933 - Nazi leaders organize nationwide boycott of Jewish
Stores. |
 Sep 22, 1933 - King Abdul Aziz Al Saud declares the founding of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
1934
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 1934
- Enrico Fermi began experiments where he bombarded a variety of elements with neutrons.
He discovered that slow moving neutrons were especially effective in producing radioactive
atoms. Not realizing he had split the atom, Fermi announced what he thought were elements
beyond uranium. |
| July 1, 1934 - Louis Chiron holds of German might and
wins the French Grand Prix at Monthlery.SEE MORE |
| Aug 2-3, 1934 - President Hindenburg dies, Hitler appoints himself
President AND Chancellor. |
| Sep 30, 1934, Babe Ruth towels off after playing his last game in a
Yankees uniform. |
1935
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| 1935 - Robert Watson-Watt
developed the ability to detect aircraft to the point that he was able to produce a
"hush-hush" document, "The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods."
The RAF High Command were skeptical until Watt successfully demonstrated an experiment
detecting aircraft up to eight miles away. This was done by A.F. Wilkins, a member of
Watt's staff. Close to the BBC's powerful transmitter he demonstrated that a Handley Page
Hayford bomber used for the experiment was able to be detected from this distance. |
| 1935 - Erich Ludendorff wrote The Nation at War, advancing the
theory of total war, in which politics were used to rally all the moral and physical
resources of a country to advance the cause of war. |
| May
12, 1935 - Caracciola scores comeback victory at the Grand Prix of Tripoli. SEE MORE |
| Jul
28, 1935 - Nuvolari scores legendary triumph against the might of the German
nation. SEE MORE |
| Sep 15, 1935 - The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews
of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's
Reich. |
1936
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| Mar 7, 1936 - Germany marches unopposed into the Rhineland. The
reoccupation of the Rhineland was a serious international provocation that violated the
treaties of Versailles and Locarno. Hitler later reportedly admitted: "If the French
had marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our
legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for
even a moderate resistance." |
| May 2, 1936 - Mussolini's legions march into Addis Ababa, completing
the Italian conquest of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). |
| Jun 19, 1936 - After rain postponed the fight a day, the undefeated
Louis was knocked out by Germany's Max Schmeling. |
| Jun 19, 1936 - Amelia Earhart's plane lost over the Pacific while
attempting solo flight around the world. |
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21, 1936 - The Hungarian Grand Prix and Tazio Nuvolari scores another victory,
this time over Rosemeyer as the Mercedes team fails to finish. SEE MORE |
| Jul 18, 1936 - With the support of Hitler and Mussolini, fighting
erupts in Spain as the result of a right-wing revolt lead by General Francisco Franco. |
| Aug 1, 1936 - Hitler opens the XIth Olympiad in Berlin. Musical
fanfares directed by the famous composer Richard Strauss announced the dictator's arrival
to the largely German crowd. African American Jessie Owens would win four gold medals in
track & field. |
1937
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| 1937 - Hormel Foods announced a contest to find a name for their
spiced ham product and SPAM was born. |
| May 6, 1937 - The airship Hindenburg crashed and burned while
landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 people on board and 1 ground crew member were killed. |
1938
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| Jan 27, 1938
- Bernd Rosemeyer is killed during record attempt. |
| Mar 13, 1938 - Germany incorporates Austria into the Reich (the
"Anschluss"). |
| Jul 1938 - At Evian, France, the
U.S. convenes a League of Nations conference with delegates from 32 countries to consider
helping Jews fleeing Hitler, but results in inaction as no country will accept them. |
| July 24, 1938 - Dick Seaman
wins the German Grand Prix scoring the first victory for a British driver in a Grand Prix
since Sir Henry Segrave. SEE MORE |
| Sep 30, 1938 - Neville Chamberlain
returned from Germany and proclaimed: "We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the
British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing
that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two
countries and for Europe. Later at 10 Downing street he remarked, "My good friends,
for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany
bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time..." |
| Nov 9-10, 1938 - Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken
Glass" -- rioters burned over 1,000 synagogues, vandalized and looted 7,000 Jewish
businesses and homes, and killed dozens of Jews in an assault instigated by Propaganda
Minister Joseph Goebbels. |
| Dec 14, 1938 - Hermann Göring takes charge of resolving the
"Jewish Question." |
1939
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| Mar 13, 1939 - German troops march into Czechoslovakia. |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland. |
| Sep 3,
1939 - Yugoslav GP. Last Grand Prix until the end of the war. |
| Sep 3, 1939 - England and France
declare war on Germany. |
1940
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