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1933 -- Cinema takes a leap forward when King Kong hits the movie theaters. |
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January 30, 1933 -- Appointment of Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor (Prime Minister). |
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February 22, 1933 -- Nazis burn Reichstag building and create a sense of crisis. As a result, emergency powers are granted to Hitler. |
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February 1933 -- Stormtroopers actively create terror by beatings
and attacks in Berlin as well as all over Germany. |
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March 24, 1933 -- Enabling Act is passed in German parliament, giving Hitler dictatorial power. |
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March 20, 1933 -- Establishment of the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Dachau. |
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March 1933 -- Bette Davis wins the Best Actress award for her performance in "Dangerous"; the Outstanding Production award goes
to "Mutiny On The Bounty" by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
March 4, 1933 -- F. D. Roosevelt takes office as U.S. President.
March 12, 1933 -- FDR announces the "New Deal."
March 27, 1933 -- At a mass rally in New York's Madison Square
Garden, Jewish leaders threaten a counter-boycott against German-made
goods unless their anti-Jewish boycott is called off. |
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April 1, 1933 -- Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
April 23, 1933 -- The Gestapo is established. |
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May 10, 1933 -- Public burning of Jewish and anti-Nazi books throughout Germany. |
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July 14, 1933 -- Nazi party is declared the only legal party in Germany. |
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July 1933 -- Germany passes a law for forced sterilization of those with "genetic defects."
July 14, 1933 -- East European Jewish immigrants are stripped of German citizenship. |
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Autumn 1933 -- Jews are banished from art, broadcasting, literature,
music, theater, and the press. Jewish lawyers are forbidden to practice
law. German-Jewish doctors are permitted to treat only Jewish patients. Jews are forbidden to own land. |
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October 19, 1933 -- Withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations. |
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October 1933 -- The New York Giants take the World Series in five games. |
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November 24, 1933 -- German Law Against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals. |
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December 1, 1933 -- Hitler declares legal unity of German state and Nazi party. |
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December 1933 -- The 21st Amendment is approved, repealing
the "Prohibition Act." |
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1934 -- Assassination of Kirov in U.S.S.R., beginning of Great Purges. |
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1934 -- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in their first film, "The Gay Divorcee." |
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May 1, 1934 -- "Der Sturmer's" special 14-page issue accuses Jews of using Christian blood in their Passover baking and in other Judaic rituals. |
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June 30, 1934 -- "Night of the Long Knives," the murderous purge of the SA stormtroopers. |
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July 20, 1934 -- The SS becomes independent of the SA. |
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August 2, 1934 -- Death of Hindenberg. Hitler
becomes head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Hitler proclaims himself "Fuehrer" and forces all military personnel
to swear allegience to him.
August 19, 1934 -- Over 90% of Germans vote in favor of Hitler's new powers. |
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August 3, 1934 -- Three days of anti-Jewish rioting in Constantine,
Algeria leave 23 Jews killed and 35 wounded. The pogroms are traced
to Radio-Berlin and Radio-Stuttgart Nazi broadcasts. |
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October 1934 -- Lou Gehrig takes the American League batting title for the New York Yankees with an average of .363. |
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December 1934 -- Stalin begins a series
of purges that eliminates the political and military elite, and sends millions to Soviet labor camps. |
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1935 -- Italy invades Ethiopia. |
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January 13, 1935 -- Saar Region is annexed to Germany. |
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January 8, 1935 -- Citizens are jailed for failing to salute in Strazsund, Germany. |
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May 21, 1935 -- Jews are banned from Germany military service. |
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May 26, 1935 -- Police kill 10, wound 100 in the "Memorial Day Massacre" in South Chicago. |
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June 26, 1935 -- Forced abortion becomes law in Germany to prevent "hereditary diseases." |
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August 14, 1935 -- FDR signs Social Security into law. |
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September 15, 1935 -- Basic anti-Jewish racist legislation is passed, "The Nuremberg Laws". |
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February 10, 1936 -- Gestapo is no longer bound by the law. |
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March 7, 1936 -- Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty. |
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April 15, 1936 -- Palestinian Arabs begin a general strike to
protest Jewish immigration. Within a month, 21 Jews are killed in Arab attacks. |
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June 17, 1936 -- Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police. |
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Summer 1936 -- Jesse Owens stars in the Summer
1936 Olympics, held in Nazi Germany. |
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July 17, 1936 -- North African detachments of the Spanish Army led by Generalissimo Franco, and supported by Italy
and the Nazis, begin civil war against the five year old republic. |
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October 25, 1936 -- Hitler and Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis. |
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November 25, 1936 -- Germany and Japan sign military pact. |
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December 1936 -- 30,000 German Jews and 11,596 Polish Jews have by now been admitted to Palestine. |
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