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Soviet Russia and Poland War
Soviet Russia and Poland war is easily overlooked. The whole thing begins over border disagreements. The war was fought between the new Polish Republic, and Bolshevik Russia in Poland, in the Baltic and Galicia and Western Ukraine primarily. -
The British Arrest Gandhi
Seven years after he returned from South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested and tried for sedition. This trial led to a six-year jail sentence. However, he eventually served only two years of that term. -
German Foreign Minister Rathenau of Germany is assinated
Walther Rathenau was the foreign minister of Germany. He was a successful Jewish business. Two months after signing the treaty of Rapallo, he was assassinated in Berlin by the right-wing terrorist group organisation consul. After his assassination, the Nazis band all commemorations of him. -
Lenin dies
Lenin, head of soviet Russia dies from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. In his six years in power, Lenin struggled with the difficulty of implementing his utopian vision within the borders of the Soviet state as well as the failure of his predicted international revolution to materialize. Lenin had suffered many strokes, all leading up to his death. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Hoover
Roosevelt passed a flurry of economic legislation during the first hundred days of his administration as part of his New Deal domestic program. Roosevelt helped by creating ground work for lifting the United States out of the Great Depression by the beginning of WWII -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
Hitler put Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force. He composed a Nazis group dedicated to getting rid of anything and anyone who opposed. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. -
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss killed by Nazis
Austrians all thought that Dollfuss had resigned, however that was just a lie. Shortly after he had explained what happened, and apologized for everyone's misunderstanding, he was shot down by an Austrian Nazi. This Nazi longed to see the German dictator Hitler to seize their country. -
Civil war begins in Spain
The civil war of Spain began as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain. From the Canary Islands, General Francisco Franco broadcasts a message calling for all army officers to join the uprising and overthrow Spain’s leftist Republican government. -
Olympic Games begin in Germany
The Olympic games were first scheduled to be held in 1916, but was cancelled due to World War I. The Nazis intended to use the 1936 Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the "new Germany" -
Nazi soviet Nonaggression agreement
On August 23rd an economic agreement was signed providing that Germany would exchange manufactured goods for Soviet raw materials. The pact contained secret protocol for the partition of Poland and the rest of eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of interest
