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Japan begin takeover of Manchuria, which is later renamed Manchukuo
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Fighting between China and Japan in Manchuria ends with Japan in control of Manchuria.
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Hindenburg is elected President in Germany defeating Nazi Party candidate Adolph Hitler and another candidate.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is elected president of the United States.
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Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of Germany.
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Japan leaves the League of Nations.Nazi Germany had withdraw earlier in the year.
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FDR makes his first "fireside chat" speaking to the United States population over the radio.
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Dachau, the first concentration camp, is established in Germany. By the 1945 over 1000 concentration camps will be established.
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Adolph Hitler seizes power in Germany. Hindenburg is reduced to a figure head.
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party or "Nazi" becomes the official party of Germany
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Italy invades Ethiopia.
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In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland.
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The failed Spanish coup of July 1936 by Nationalist forces marks the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
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The two sides in the Chinese Civil War temporarily suspend hostilities to fight the Japanese.
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The Spanish Civil War ends in Nationalist victory. Spain becomes a dictatorship with Francisco Franco as the head of the new government.
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Italy leaves the League of Nations.
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Austria is annexed by Nazi Germany.
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The Munich Agreement is signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The agreement allows Germany to annex the Czechoslovak Sudetenland area in exchange for peace in an attempt to appease Hitler.
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Germany occupies Czechoslovakia in violation of the Munich Agreement. The Czechs do not attempt to put up any organized resistance having lost their main defensive line with the annexation of the Sudetenland.
