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Explore September 20, 1936 – June 14, 1939

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1932-03-01 - 1939-09-16
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Siege of the Alcázar 1936-07-21 - 1936-09-27
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Abdication of Edward VIII 1936-11-16 - 1936-12-11
Xi'an Incident 1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Battle of Málaga (1937) 1937-02-03 - 1937-02-08
Battle of Jarama 1937-02-06 - 1937-02-27
Battle of Guadalajara 1937-03-08 - 1937-03-23
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Hindenburg disaster 1937-05-06
Battle of Brunete 1937-07-06 - 1937-07-25
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Belchite (1937) 1937-08-24 - 1937-09-07
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22
Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1938-03-05 - 1938-03-06
Aragon Offensive 1938-03-07 - 1938-04-19
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Catalonia Offensive 1938-12-23 - 1939-02-10
Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War 1939-03-26 - 1939-03-31
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16

People

Adolf Hitler age 47
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 54
President - United States
Hirohito age 35
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 40
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Edward VIII age 42
King - United Kingdom
Reza Shah age 58
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 54
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 66
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 34
King - Belgium
Albert Lebrun age 65
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 41
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 13
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 57
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 36
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Miguel Mariano Gómez age 46
President - Cuba
Benito Mussolini age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 46
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Stanley Baldwin age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Léon Blum age 64
Prime Minister - France
Édouard Daladier age 52
Prime Minister - France
Fumimaro Konoe age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Kōki Hirota age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Senjūrō Hayashi age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 70
Prime Minister - South Africa
Milan Stojadinović age 48
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Dragiša Cvetković age 43
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Joseph Avenol age 57
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Jamil Mardam Bey age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Ata al-Ayyubi age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Lutfi al-Haffar age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 67
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 35
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 36
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 43
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 42
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 65
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 59
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 49
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 63
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Murphy age 46
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 55
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Homer Stille Cummings age 66
Attorney General - United States
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 43
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Malin Craig age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 35
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 41
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 55
President - African National Congress
James Clark McReynolds age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 55
President - African National Congress
J. C. C. Davidson age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Cathal Ó Murchadha age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Margaret Buckley age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Robert H. Jackson age 44
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
J. Howard McGrath age 32
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 52
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 58
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 54
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 72
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 78
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson age 28
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 58
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 43
Governor of Ohio - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Frank Merriam age 70
Governor of California - United States
Culbert Olson age 59
Governor of California - United States
James Michael Curley age 61
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James V. Allred age 37
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 58
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 39
Governor of Maryland - United States
A. Harry Moore age 59
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George C. Peery age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Junius Marion Futrell age 66
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles F. Hurley age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin L. Davey age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Paul V. McNutt age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Harold G. Hoffman age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Nice age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
Hill McAlister age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 13
New York State Senate - United States
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 55
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 46
President - Indian National Congress
Francisco Franco age 43
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 60
Pope - Vatican City
Pius XI age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 52
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 56
Queen - Netherlands
Subhas Chandra Bose age 39
President - Indian National Congress
Haakon VII of Norway age 64
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 78
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 40
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 11
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 62
President - Estonia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 27
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 58
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 62
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 74
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 76
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 59
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 63
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 42
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 40
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 37
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 68
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 40
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 66
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 67
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 66
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 26
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 31
King - Bhutan
Agustín Pedro Justo age 60
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 53
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 57
President - Chile
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 36
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 60
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 50
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 60
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 54
President - Liberia
Óscar R. Benavides age 60
President - Peru
Giuseppe Motta age 64
President - Switzerland
Eleazar López Contreras age 53
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 48
President - Colombia
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 50
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 51
Emir - Kuwait
Germán Busch age 33
President - Bolivia
Philipp Etter age 44
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 52
President - Uruguay
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 50
President - Panama