1928
The first of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans imposes collectivization on agriculture in the Soviet Union.
Former Chicago city council member Oscar DePriest is elected to the 71st U.S. Congress (Nov. 6). He is the first black Representative to be elected in a northern state.
U.S. voters elect Herbert Hoover president (Nov. 6) over Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York
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1935
Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria is assassinated by Nazis.
Hitler becomes Führer when chancellorship and presidency are united.
U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations.
Dionne sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond infancy, born in Canada. Background: Multiple Births
Mao Zedong begins the Long March north with 100,000 soldiers.
1935
Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty, introduce compulsory military service.
Mussolini invades Ethiopia; League of Nations invokes sanctions.
Persia becomes Iran under Reza Shah Pahlevi.
Nazis enact Nuremberg Laws against Jews to prevent "racial pollution." Heinrich Himmler starts breeding program to produce "Aryan super race
1936
Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.
1937
Italy withdraws from League of Nations.
U.S. gunboat Panay sunk by Japanese in Yangtze River.
Japan invades China, conquers most of coastal area.
Britain begins 999 emergency telephone number. The United States starts 911 service in New York in 1968.
The dirigible "Hindenburg" explodes at Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36
Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Fred Noonan vanish over the Pacific Ocean on their Round-the-World Flight.