Abt 1935 - Abt 1944 (9 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1935 | - 1935: First 'Kit Kat' sold in UK
- 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
- 1935: Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws
- 1935: John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
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| 2 | 1936 | - 1936: BBC starts regular TV broadcasts
- 1936: Carnegie Publishes 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'
- 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates
- 1936: Nazi Olympics in Berlin
- 1936: Spanish Civil War Begins
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| 3 | 1937 | - 1937: German planes, aiding insurgents in the Spanish Civil War, bomb the historic Basque town of Guernica in Northern Spain, killing women and children and inflaming world opinion against facism.
- 1937: Hindenburg airship crash broadcast coast to coast in US
- 1937: Amelia Earhart Vanishes
- 1937: Golden Gate Bridge Opened
- 1937: The Hindenberg Disaster
- 1937: Japan Invades China
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| 4 | 1938 | - 1938: UK's first weekly radio comedy series, Band Wagon
- 1938: Biro brothers invent ballpoint pen
- 1938: Broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' Causes Panic
- 1938: Chamberlain Announces 'Peace in Our Time'
- 1938: Extinct Fish Found
- 1938: Hitler Annexes Austria
- 1938: The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
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| 5 | 1939 | - 1939: Second World War starts
- 1939: First Commercial Flight Over the Atlantic
- 1939: German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Signed
- 1939: Helicopter Invented
- 1939: Refugees on the St. Louis Refused Entry Everywhere
- 1939: World War II Begins
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| 6 | 1940 | - 1940: London Blitz
- 1940: Igor Sikorsky invented the heliocopter
- 1940: Disney's 'Fantasia'
- 1940: Battle of Britain
- 1940: Leon Trotsky Assassinated
- 1940: Nylons on the Market
- 1940: Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France
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| 7 | 1941 | - 1941: Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
- 1941: Jeep Invented
- 1941: Manhattan Project Begins
- 1941: Mount Rushmore Completed
- 1941: Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission
- 1941: Siege of Leningrad
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| 8 | 1942 | - 1942: Battle of Midway
- 1942: Battle of Stalingrad
- 1942: Japanese-Americans Held in Camps
- 1942: Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death
- 1942: T-shirt Introduced
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| 9 | 1943 | - 1943: Autism identified
- 1943: French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed
- 1943: Italy Joins the Allies
- 1943: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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| 10 | 1944 | - 1944: Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale
- 1944: D-Day
- 1944: First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
- 1944: Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
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