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1935 Hitler announces a 36-division German army ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In March 1935 Hitler announced to the world the creation of a German peacetime army of no less than 36 divisions. ●●

1 July 1935 Bureau renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation 0 cit. The agency is officially renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Under Hoover, the FBI expands its jurisdiction over kidnapping, bank robbery, and organized crime, and cultivates a heavily promoted public image through radio, film, and press relationships Hoover personally managed. politics ●●

1 March 1935 Hitler publicly reveals the Luftwaffe 0 cit. Adolf Hitler publicly announced the existence of the Luftwaffe as an independent air force, openly violating the disarmament terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany had secretly been training pilots and developing aircraft designs for years beforehand. The Luftwaffe was rapidly built into one of the most powerful air forces in the world and became central to Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg strategy. politics / war ●●

1935 Eye and pyramid added to the dollar bill 1 cit. At the suggestion of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved placing both sides of the Great Seal, including the eye-and-pyramid reverse, on the redesigned one-dollar bill. Wallace was drawn to esoteric and mystical ideas, and Roosevelt was himself a Freemason, which has fed speculation about hidden Masonic intent; but the documented record shows the design was an adaptation of the 1782 seal, not a new Masonic emblem. economy / society ●●

1935 Eye of Providence placed on the one-dollar bill 0 cit. At the urging of Vice President Henry Wallace, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau approves putting both sides of the Great Seal, including the pyramid and Eye of Providence, on the redesigned one-dollar bill. The choice reflected Wallace's interest in the Seal's symbolism, not an Illuminati or Masonic directive; claims that the dollar bill proves ongoing Illuminati control of US government are widely circulated but are not supported by documentary evidence and are treated here as contested. economy / politics ●●

1935 Ludendorff Publishes Der Totale Krieg 0 cit. Former World War I commander Erich Ludendorff published Der Totale Krieg (The Total War), arguing that modern war required mobilizing an entire nation's economy, population, and politics under military direction, with civilian leadership subordinated to the demands of war. The book argued explicitly against the idea of civilian control over military strategy, inverting the standard civil-military relationship. It became an influential statement of militarist ideology in the interwar period. politics / war ●●

c. September 1935 Fischer's race theories cited in drafting the Nuremberg Laws 2 cit. Nazi legal drafters and race theorists cite Eugen Fischer's earlier work, including his 1908 study of the Rehoboth Basters, as scientific grounding for the Nuremberg Laws banning marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. Historians treat this as a documented, direct intellectual line from German colonial race science in South-West Africa to Nazi racial law. politics / science ●●

3 October 1935 Second Italo-Ethiopian War Begins 0 cit. Italian forces under Marshal Pietro Badoglio invaded Ethiopia in a war of colonial conquest condemned by the League of Nations but met with only token sanctions. The campaign employed systematic aerial bombing of civilian targets alongside conventional military operations. It ended with the Italian occupation of Addis Ababa in May 1936 and the proclamation of Italian East Africa. diplomacy / war ●●

c. December 1935 Italy Uses Mustard Gas in Ethiopia 1 cit. Italian forces repeatedly used mustard gas, sprayed from aircraft, against Ethiopian troops and civilian populations in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which Italy had signed. Mussolini personally authorized the gas attacks, and Badoglio expanded their use through the following months. Historians estimate the gas killed thousands of Ethiopians and contaminated water sources and grazing land used by civilians long after the war. technology / war ●●●

August 1935 Texas Rangers absorbed into the Department of Public Safety 0 cit. The Texas Legislature created the Texas Department of Public Safety and folded the Rangers into it as one of its divisions, ending the Rangers' history as a separate, loosely regulated state force. The reorganization was driven partly by scandals during Governor Miriam "Ma" Ferguson's administration, when Ranger commissions had been handed out as political patronage, and it imposed civil-service standards, training, and a modern chain of command that the force had previously lacked. politics ●●●

c. 1935 Herders frozen as timeless 'tribesmen' 0 cit. Colonial administrators and popular writing cast the Maasai and other herders as noble, unchanging primitives, a living picture of Africa before modernity, even as grazing curbs and quarantines wrecked their economies. The romantic image justified leaving the pastoralists outside development while their real conditions worsened. Historians argue this 'timeless tribesman' myth masked an active process of marginalisation. culture / society ●

c. 1935 Studying Anthropology under Malinowski at the LSE 0 cit. From the mid-1930s Kenyatta studied social anthropology at the London School of Economics under Bronislaw Malinowski, a founder of the discipline. He turned the tools of European scholarship back on his own people, framing Kikuyu society as a coherent, functioning order rather than the 'primitive' subject colonial writing described. The seminars produced the thesis that became his book on Kikuyu life. culture / science ●●

c. 1935 Independent African churches break from the missions 0 cit. Alongside the schools, Kikuyu founded independent churches such as the African Independent Pentecostal Church and the African Orthodox Church, worshipping as Christians while keeping their own customs and clergy. They gained African ordinations from outside the established missions and grew into lasting institutions. The split gave the community a Christianity it governed itself, born directly from the oath crisis. religion / society ●●

3 October 1935 Fascist Italy invades Ethiopia 1 cit. Mussolini's forces crossed from Eritrea into Ethiopia without a declaration of war, seeking to avenge Adwa and build an Italian empire in East Africa. The League of Nations declared Italy the aggressor and voted economic sanctions, but left out oil and did not close the Suez Canal, so the measures failed to stop the war. The invasion became a test case for whether the League could deter aggression, and it failed that test. diplomacy / war ●●●

c. 1935 The Pan-African circle: James, Makonnen, Nkrumah, Abrahams, Du Bois 0 cit. Through the later 1930s Kenyatta moved in a tight Pan-African network with C.L.R. James, the Guyanese organiser Ras Makonnen, the young Kwame Nkrumah, the writer Peter Abrahams, and the elder statesman W.E.B. Du Bois. Many worked through Padmore's International African Service Bureau. These friendships, more than Moscow, shaped the politics he carried home. politics / society ●●

1935 Protesting Italy's invasion of Ethiopia 0 cit. Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 galvanised Black activists in Britain, and Kenyatta joined the campaigns defending the one African state that had kept its independence. The cause bound the London Pan-Africanists together and sharpened their anti-colonial edge. It was a formative moment for the movement that met again in 1945. politics / war ●

c. 1935 Enrolling at the LSE under Bronislaw Malinowski 0 cit. Kenyatta entered the London School of Economics to study social anthropology under Bronislaw Malinowski, a founder of the field. Malinowski's seminar taught that a culture had to be understood on its own terms. For Kenyatta it offered a scholarly language in which to defend Kikuyu life against colonial contempt. culture / science ●●●

1935 A bit part in Sanders of the River 0 cit. Short of money, Kenyatta took a small part as an extra in the 1935 film Sanders of the River, whose leads were played by the American singer Paul Robeson and Nina Mae McKinney. The film was a celebration of benign British rule in Africa that Robeson later disowned. For Kenyatta it was one of many odd jobs that kept him afloat in London. culture / economy ●

c. 1935 The negritude movement takes shape in Paris 0 cit. Black students from the French colonies, among them Aime Cesaire of Martinique, Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal, and Leon Damas of Guiana, launched the journal L'Etudiant noir. Cesaire is credited with coining the term negritude, which affirmed Black identity and African cultural values against French assimilation. The movement gave Pan-Africanism a strong literary and cultural voice in the French-speaking world. culture / politics / society ●●

1935 Makhan Singh builds militant trade unionism 0 cit. The Sikh activist Makhan Singh reorganised the Labour Trade Union of Kenya into the Labour Trade Union of East Africa, pushing a militant, multiracial model of organised labour. He argued that workers should combine across race against colonial employers. He is widely regarded as a father of the Kenyan trade union movement. economy / politics ●●

c. 1935 MI5 tracks George Padmore in London 0 cit. The Trinidadian pan-Africanist George Padmore, after breaking with the Communist International, settled in London and was watched by MI5 and Special Branch. He became a mentor to a generation of African and Caribbean nationalists, including Kwame Nkrumah. British intelligence saw his flat as a hub of dangerous anti-colonial organising. politics / society ●●

1935 John F. Kennedy enrols at the LSE 0 cit. The young John F. Kennedy, future president of the United States, enrolled at the LSE in 1935 to study under the political theorist Harold Laski. He fell ill soon after and returned home before he could take up his studies in full. The brief episode is often cited as a mark of the School's global draw. politics / society ●

c. 1935 Settles in London and reunites with C.L.R. James 0 cit. Padmore settled in London in the mid-1930s and reconnected with C.L.R. James, his boyhood friend from Trinidad. The two men, close allies and sometime rivals, became central to the city's anti-colonial scene. Their partnership helped turn London into an organizing center for African freedom. culture / politics / society ●●

October 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia and galvanizes Pan-African organizing 0 cit. Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in October 1935 outraged Africans and their diaspora, since Ethiopia stood as a symbol of independence. Padmore and C.L.R. James helped form the International African Friends of Abyssinia to rally support. The crisis pulled a scattered network into organized political action. diplomacy / politics / society ●●●

1935 Nkrumah enrolls at Lincoln University in the United States 0 cit. In 1935 Nkrumah sailed to the United States and enrolled at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a historically Black college. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and sociology in 1939 and later a bachelor of theology. He supported himself with menial jobs and read widely in Pan-African and socialist thought. politics / society ●●

July 1935 The Comintern retreats from colonial work at its Seventh Congress 0 cit. At its Seventh Congress the Comintern adopted the Popular Front line, seeking alliances with Britain and France against fascism. To avoid antagonizing those imperial powers, it softened its anti-colonial agitation and wound down bodies like the Negro workers' committee. Historians describe this as the moment Moscow put its own security ahead of the colonial cause, exposing the limits of Soviet support. diplomacy / politics ●●●

1935 Bernays sells Lucky Strikes for American Tobacco ai_extracted 1 cit. From the mid-1930s Bernays did extensive work for George Washington Hill's American Tobacco Company, helping sell Lucky Strike cigarettes. He later reversed course, gave up tobacco clients, and lobbied against the habit once its dangers were undeniable. ●●

c. 1935 Pass laws and grazing controls hem in Somali movement 3 cit. Under the closed-district regime, Somalis needed permits to move between areas, and the state controlled grazing and stock across the north. The rules cut into the mobility that pastoral life depended on. They also kept the region sealed from the wider colony and its economy. economy / politics ●●

c. 1935 The estates run on resident and migrant plantation labour 0 cit. The tea estates depended on a large workforce of pluckers and field hands, housed on the estates or drawn in from nearby reserves. Wages were low and the labour was tied to the plantation. This pattern of estate labour on land taken from local communities carried on well past the end of colonial rule. economy / society ●●

25 November 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact wikidata 0 cit. pact between Nazi Germany and Japan prior to World War II ●●●

7 March 1936 Remilitarization of the Rhineland 0 cit. German troops re-enter the demilitarized Rhineland in open breach of Versailles; Britain and France do nothing. politics / war ●●●

1936 Hirota cabinet puts economy on quasi-war footing ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1936 the Hirota cabinet agreed to put Japan's economy on a quasi-war footing, beginning with a boost to the military expenditure budget. ●●●

20 July 1936 Montreux Convention 0 cit. Convention giving Turkey control of the Bosporus and Dardanelles and regulating passage of warships in and out of the Black Sea. Its rules still govern the straits today. diplomacy / politics / war ●●●

August 1936 Founding of the World Jewish Congress 0 cit. Jewish delegates from 32 countries hold a first plenary assembly in Geneva, founding the World Jewish Congress as a permanent representative body of Jewish communities amid rising Nazi persecution. diplomacy / politics / religion ●●

17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 Spanish Civil War 0 cit. no story Franco's Nationalists, backed by Germany and Italy, defeat the Republic, backed by the Soviet Union and international volunteers. Around half a million die and Franco rules Spain until 1975. politics / war ●●●●

c. 1936 to c. 1938 The Great Terror 0 cit. Stalin's purges sweep the Soviet party, army, and society, with show trials of old Bolsheviks and mass executions by the NKVD. Around 750,000 people are shot and over a million sent to the Gulag. politics ●●●●

February 1936 Publication of The General Theory 2 cit. John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, arguing that governments must manage demand to prevent mass unemployment. Keynesian economics dominates Western policy for the next four decades. economy ●●●●

19 July 1936 to 1937 Anarchist revolution in Catalonia 0 cit. After defeating the military uprising in Barcelona, the anarchist CNT-FAI leads the collectivization of industry and land across Catalonia and Aragon. The experiment is rolled back after fighting among the Republican factions in May 1937. politics / society ●●●

1936 to 1939 The 1936-39 Arab Revolt 0 cit. Palestinian Arabs staged a widespread revolt against British rule and Jewish immigration from 1936 to 1939. Britain suppressed it and later curbed Jewish immigration. politics / war ●●●

26 September 1936 France abandons the gold standard 0 cit. France and the last members of the gold bloc finally devalued and left gold after years of grinding deflation. Countries that had clung to gold longest suffered the deepest and longest slumps. economy / politics ●●●

c. 1936 Founding of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 0 cit. A group of Caltech students and researchers, including Frank Malina and Jack Parsons, began rocket experiments in the Arroyo Seco. The work grew into the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, later run for NASA. science / technology ●●●●

31 October 1936 The GALCIT rocket group's first test firings in the Arroyo Seco 0 cit. Parsons and his colleagues, nicknamed the Suicide Squad, conducted their first static rocket motor tests in the Arroyo Seco canyon near Pasadena. JPL treats this experiment as the moment of its founding. science ●●●●

1936 Argus cameras are named for the hundred-eyed giant of Greek myth 0 cit. The Argus camera brand, launched in Michigan in 1936, borrows the name of Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed all-seeing giant of Greek myth. economy / religion / technology ●

1936 Germany rearms and remilitarizes the Rhineland (1935-1936) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Under British-driven appeasement, France gave away its advantages: Germany was allowed to rearm in 1935 and to remilitarize the Rhineland in 1936. ●●

1936 French devaluation of 1936 shatters the gold bloc ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The French devaluation law of October 2, 1936, reduced the franc's gold content and set up an exchange stabilization fund. It shattered the gold bloc but, Quigley argues, was mismanaged and did not end the deflation. ●●

1936 Four-Year Plan begins state control of the economy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Four-Year Plan, created in 1936, became the entering wedge of outside control over German business. After war began, the Ministry of Munitions under Todt and Speer came to dominate economic life. ●●

1936 Italy completes conquest of Ethiopia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ethiopia was conquered on 2 May 1936 and annexed to Italy a week later. League sanctions were then removed just as they were beginning to take effect. ●●

1936 Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Spanish republic lasted only five years before the Civil War began on 18 July 1936, after a period of shifting coalition governments and rising conflict between Right and extreme Left. ●●

1936 Popular Front wins Spanish election ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Spanish election of 16 February 1936 followed a violent campaign in which the Falange were the worst offenders; the Popular Front won 266 of 473 seats against 153 for the Right and 54 for the Center. ●●

1936 Sanjurjo seeks German aid in Berlin ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley reports that Sanjurjo went to Berlin on 4 February 1936 but could get no German commitment beyond a promise of transport planes to move Moroccan forces to Spain if the loyal fleet made sea transport dangerous. ●●

1936 French proposal for non-intervention in Spain ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Impelled by pacifism and a desire to avoid war, French Premier Léon Blum and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos proposed on 1 August 1936 that the chief Powers sign an agreement not to intervene in Spain. ●●

1936 Germany and Italy recognize the Franco government ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the failure to capture Madrid, Germany and Italy decided on extensive support for Franco, recognizing his government and withdrawing recognition from Madrid on 18 November 1936; Italy signed a secret alliance ten days later. ●●

1936 Japan joins the Anti-Comintern Pact ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On November 25, 1936, Japan joined the Anti-Comintern Pact, aligning with the aggressor states. Efforts to strengthen it into a full German-Japanese alliance dragged on for years, concluding only in September 1940. ●●

1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A 1936 treaty regulated relations between Britain and Egypt, establishing a twenty-year alliance and allowing Britain to keep 10,000 troops in the Canal Zone. Its creation of a new Egyptian army and a military academy opened officer careers to poor Egyptians like Nasser. ●●

1936 Neill Malcolm named High Commissioner for German Refugees (1936) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Hitler's persecutions grew, Sir Neill Malcolm was made High Commissioner for German Refugees in 1936, and the RIIA began a research program on refugees the following year. ●●

1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley calls Hitler's March 1936 remilitarization of the Rhineland the most crucial event in the whole history of appeasement, since a demilitarized Rhineland had been the one thing deterring German moves eastward. ●●

1936 Franco's fascist revolution underway in Spain ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says that by early August 1936 Franco's fascist revolution was well underway, aided by Mussolini, Hitler and Portugal. It presents Franco's rise as enabled by British and French policy. ●●

1936 Keynes publishes The General Theory ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Keynes's masterwork, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, appeared in February 1936. It transformed the understanding of the modern monetary economy and still underpins much of central-bank policy. ●●

1936 United Fruit wins Guatemala concession negotiated by Dulles ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ubico showered United Fruit with concession agreements, including one in 1936 that his agents negotiated personally with Dulles (1936) ●●

1936 Gestapo becomes supreme police organ of the Reich ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bettina never publicized this heroic work and before her death destroyed all documents related to the effort, save a simple list of beneficiaries.39 — The Warburgs’ special influence during the Third Reich depended upon their matchless access to government officials, a situation threatened on February 10, 1936, when the Gestapo, under Heinrich Himmler, emerged as supreme police organ of the Third Reich. ●●

1936 Jack Parsons: the occultist who helped found JPL 0 cit. Jack Parsons, a self-taught genius of rocket propulsion, co-founds what becomes NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory while devoutly practicing Crowley's Thelemic magic. Rocket science and ceremonial magick sat side by side in the same brilliant, reckless mind. religion / science ●●●

1936 Franco's coup triggers the Spanish Civil War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In July 1936 a military coup led by General Francisco Franco triggered the Spanish Civil War, with Franco openly supported by large shipments of equipment from Germany and Italy. ●●

1936 Schacht received in Paris by Léon Blum ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1936, five months after the reoccupation of the Rhineland, Germany's Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht was received in Paris by Léon Blum, Socialist Party head and Prime Minister of a Popular Front government. ●●

1936 Turing conceives the Universal Machine ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Von Neumann’s project was the physical realization of Alan Turing’s Universal Machine, a theoretical construct invented in 1936 ●●

1936 Air Ministry contracts IG Farben for Leuna fuel plant ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On ro June 1936 the Air Ministry signed a second major contract with IG Farben, this time to build a plant at Leuna capable of turning out 200,000 tons of air fuel per annum. ●●

1936 Spanish officers rebel against the Popular Front ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two months later, in July 1936, right-wing officers launched their rebellion against the newly elected Popular Front government of Spain. ●●

1936 Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Shortly after- wards, in November 1936, Germany allied itself with Japan, the chief aggressor in Asia, in the anti-Comintern pact. ●●

1936 Publication of Keynes's General Theory 0 cit. John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, arguing that government spending could counteract unemployment during downturns. The book became the foundation of postwar economic policy across the West and the chief target of the free-market economists gathered around Hayek and, later, Milton Friedman. economy ●●●

1936 Turing goes to Princeton to study under Church ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Turing crosses the Atlantic to study at Princeton, where he works alongside Alonzo Church and John von Neumann. ●●

1 August 1936 The Berlin Olympics become a Nazi propaganda showcase 0 cit. Nazi Germany hosts the Summer Games and uses elaborate ceremony, architecture, and Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia to project an image of national strength and unity to the world. The Games are documented as the clearest case of a state using the Olympics as deliberate soft-power propaganda, notwithstanding Jesse Owens's four gold medals undercutting the regime's racial claims. culture / politics ●●●

1 August 1936 1936 Berlin Olympics opening ceremony 0 cit. Adolf Hitler's government used the Berlin Games as a propaganda showcase for Nazi Germany, staging a massive opening ceremony filmed by Leni Riefenstahl for her documentary Olympia. This Games introduced the Olympic torch relay from Olympia, Greece to the host city, an idea devised by sports official Carl Diem specifically for these Games and continued at every Olympics since. The event is documented as a deliberate use of mass spectacle for political image-building, separate from any conspiracy claims about the games. culture / politics ●●●

c. 1 January 1936 Palestine Police CID expands during the Arab Revolt 0 cit. During the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt, the Palestine Police CID and its political intelligence branch greatly expanded surveillance, informant networks, and interrogation of Arab nationalist organizers. Zionist paramilitary and political groups were also monitored, and the CID's methods and personnel later influenced British colonial policing elsewhere, including Malaya. politics / war ●●

17 July 1936 Military uprising ignites the Spanish Civil War 0 cit. A group of generals launches a coup against the elected Republic, splitting Spain into war. Franco takes command of the Nationalist side, which absorbs the fascist Falange and receives troops and aircraft from Hitler and Mussolini. The war becomes a proving ground for the Axis powers. politics / war ●●●

1 November 1936 Proclamation of the Rome-Berlin Axis 0 cit. Mussolini declares that the agreements with Nazi Germany form an axis around which European states can turn, giving the alliance its name. The bond deepens through the Pact of Steel in 1939 and later draws in Japan, forming the wartime Axis. diplomacy / politics ●●●

June 1936 The Somoza dynasty rules Nicaragua 0 cit. Anastasio Somoza Garcia seizes power and founds a family dynasty that ran Nicaragua as a private estate for over four decades. Backed by the US-trained National Guard, the Somozas relied on long American support during the Cold War. The often-quoted line that a US president called Somoza "our son of a bitch" is likely apocryphal, but it captured how Washington tolerated the dictatorship. diplomacy / politics ●●

1936 Turing defines computation and its limits 0 cit. Alan Turing described an abstract machine that captured what it means to compute, and proved that some problems can never be solved by any such machine. His work answered a question left open by Godel and Hilbert about the limits of mechanical reasoning. The theoretical machine he imagined became the blueprint for the digital computer. science / technology ●●●●

1936 Nazi racial science targets the Roma 3 cit. Under the Nazis, the Roma were classed both as asocial and as racially inferior. The psychiatrist Robert Ritter and his Racial Hygiene Research Unit examined and catalogued Roma to sort them by supposed racial type, work that fed later deportation lists. Around the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Roma in the capital were rounded up into a guarded camp at Marzahn. Forced sterilizations of Roma followed under the regime's racial laws. politics / science / society ●●●

c. 1936 Kenyatta studies anthropology under Malinowski 0 cit. In London Kenyatta studied social anthropology under Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics, learning the discipline's tools of fieldwork and functional analysis. He turned that training back on his own society, preparing a scholarly defense of Kikuyu institutions. The seminar work became the basis for his book on Kikuyu life. science / society ●

1936 Italy folds Somaliland into Italian East Africa 0 cit. After Fascist Italy invaded and occupied Ethiopia in 1935 and 1936, it merged Italian Somaliland, Eritrea, and conquered Ethiopia into the colony of Italian East Africa. For a brief period much Somali-inhabited land, including the Ogaden, sat under one administration. Italian rule was harsh and short-lived, ended by British conquest during the Second World War. politics / war ●

31 March 1936 Italy uses poison gas at Maychew and beyond 0 cit. As Ethiopian resistance stiffened, Italy sprayed mustard gas from aircraft over troops, civilians, herds, and water sources, in breach of the Geneva Protocol it had signed. The decisive Battle of Maychew broke the emperor's main army and opened the road to the capital. The gas attacks were widely reported and condemned, yet no power moved to punish Italy for them. technology / war ●●

30 June 1936 Haile Selassie appeals to the League of Nations 0 cit. In exile after the fall of Addis Ababa, Haile Selassie stood before the League of Nations in Geneva and described the gassing of his people and the failure of collective security. He warned that if the world let Ethiopia fall, the same fate would reach other small nations, a line often paraphrased as it is us today, it will be you tomorrow. The speech made him a global figure and a symbol of principle against appeasement, even as the League did nothing. diplomacy / politics ●●●

c. 1936 Malinowski's seminar and the making of a native ethnographer 0 cit. In the seminar Kenyatta was the rare thing of an African writing anthropology about his own people rather than being the object of study. He turned his thesis toward the Kikuyu, drawing on his own upbringing as evidence. Malinowski championed him as proof that an insider could produce serious ethnography. culture / science ●●

c. 1936 Poverty, odd jobs, and a storytelling persona 0 cit. Kenyatta lived close to the edge for years, scraping by on lecture fees, small stipends, and casual work. He became a well-known figure in London, sociable and vivid, given to elaborate dress and long stories about Africa. The performance drew people to him and to the cause of Kenya. culture / society ●

1936 Publishes How Britain Rules Africa 0 cit. Padmore published How Britain Rules Africa, a detailed indictment of colonial administration, land seizure, and forced labor across the continent. The book combined reporting with sharp political argument. It cemented his standing as a leading anti-colonial writer in Britain. culture / economy / politics ●●

1936 Walter Benjamin on art in the age of reproduction 0 cit. Walter Benjamin, working at the edge of the Institute, argued that mechanical reproduction stripped art of its aura and changed how the masses saw the world. Fleeing the Nazis in 1940, he took his own life at the Spanish border. His essays became central to critical theory and cultural studies. ●●

1936 Moi is baptized Daniel at Kabartonjo 2 cit. At the Africa Inland Mission school Moi became Christian and adopted the name Daniel, with official Kenyan accounts placing the baptism in 1936. The conversion mattered politically because Moi later presented himself as a disciplined evangelical teacher and moral public figure. religion / society ●●

6 February 1937 to 27 February 1937 Battle of Jarama wikidata 0 cit. no story 1937 part of the Spanish Civil War ●●

1937 Full-scale war with China begins ai_extracted 1 cit. When hostilities with China turned into full-scale war in 1937, the Japanese military pushed through major changes under emergency war legislation, giving reform bureaucrats a mandate to build a mobilized economy. ●●●●

1937 Konoe cabinet promulgates three wartime control laws ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1937 the promilitary Konoe cabinet promulgated three wartime control laws that directed critical materials and capital to the munitions industry and expanded bureaucratic control over the economy. ●●●

October 1937 Cabinet Planning Board established ai_extracted 1 cit. The Cabinet Planning Board, set up in October 1937, was designed as the economic general staff of the militarized economy, tasked with building a system for maximum growth and directing resources to priority industries. ●●●

1937 to 1945 Wartime transformation of the Japanese economy ai_extracted 1 cit. Between 1937 and 1945 the New Economic Order transformed Japanese firms from private profit-seeking undertakings into quasi-public ones focused on growth, replacing the prewar market mechanism with planning and government guidance. ●●●●

1937 Temporary Funds Adjustment Law ai_extracted 1 cit. With the reform bureaucrats in power after hostilities opened in China, the Temporary Funds Adjustment Law of 1937 brought banks' investment and loan decisions under strict control by the central bank and the Ministry of Finance. ●●●

28 May 1937 Founding of Volkswagen 0 cit. The Nazi labor front founds Volkswagen to build Ferdinand Porsche's 'people's car,' with a factory at what becomes Wolfsburg. After the war the Beetle becomes the best selling car in history and VW a global auto giant. economy / politics / technology ●●●●

28 August 1937 Founding of Toyota 0 cit. Kiichiro Toyoda spins the Toyota Motor Corporation out of his father's loom works. Its lean production system becomes the world's most studied manufacturing method, and Toyota becomes the largest automaker. economy / technology ●●●●

1937 The jet engine 0 cit. Frank Whittle ran the first bench test of a working turbojet engine. Jet propulsion led to fast, high flying aircraft and made mass air travel practical. technology ●●●

21 December 1937 Disney's Snow White, the first animated feature 0 cit. Walt Disney released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated feature in color. Its success proved animation could carry a major film. culture ●●●

1937 Second Sino-Japanese War and the Nanjing Massacre 0 cit. Full-scale war with Japan began in 1937 after a clash at the Marco Polo Bridge. Japanese forces committed atrocities including the mass killing and rape at Nanjing. war ●●●●●

July 1937 The Peel Commission Partition Proposal 0 cit. A British commission in 1937 proposed partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Zionist leaders were divided and Arab leaders rejected it, and the plan was shelved. politics ●●

23 May 1937 John D. Rockefeller Sr dies 0 cit. John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, died in May 1937 at the age of 97. He left much of his fortune to philanthropy managed by his family and foundations. economy / society ●●●

14 March 1937 Mit brennender Sorge condemns Nazism 0 cit. Pope Pius XI issued an encyclical, read from German pulpits, that attacked the racism and idolatry of the Nazi state. It was a rare open Church criticism of the regime. politics / religion ●●