Timeline

• 1933 JANUARY 30 – Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
• 1933 FEBRUARY 27 – The German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. Hitler issues emergency decrees that mark the end of all basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, assembly and protection from arbitrary arrest.
• 1933 MARCH 4 – Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd president of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1933. Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office marked the passage of 15 pieces of “New Deal” legislation to help America recover from the Great Depression.
• 1933 APRIL – German Laws exclude Jews from working as lawyers, judges, doctors and teachers, and in university and government positions.
• 1934 JUNE 30 – In Germany, a purge carried out by Adolf Hitler, called “Night of the Long Knives”, assassinates leadership of the SA (Sturmabteilung), a Nazi paramilitary group, where he ordered the assassination of many of their leaders, including Ernst Röhm.
• 1936 JULY 17 – In Spain, fascists attempt to overthrow the democratic government and starts the Spanish Civil War.
• 1937 MARCH – The first issue of “Detective Comics” is published in the United States. Twenty-seven issues later, “Detective Comics” introduces Batman.
• 1937 MAY 6 –The German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• 1937 JULY 2 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart’s attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
• 1937 DECEMBER 21 – Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes a smash hit.