Timeline (Pax Germanica)

This is the overview timeline for Pax Germania. Here the major events of the timeline are summarized at full extent.

1931

 * August 23, 1931: Winston Churchill ends up in a car accident during a visit to New York City. He dies just a few hours later, after being sent to the hospital and dying of his wounds.
 * September 18, 1931: Japan invades Machuria.

1933

 * January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany.
 * March 5 - 13, 1933:  The American government declares a "Bank Holiday" as the Great Depression reaches an all-time high.
 * May 18, 1933: American President FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) begins to establish a series of acts to repair the American economy known as the "New Deal".

1934

 * January 30, 1934: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the German Reich.
 * February 12 - 16, 1934: The Austrian Civil War occurs.
 * March 1, 1934: Following the invasion of Machuria, Japan establishes a puppet government in the region.
 * November 1934: American general Smedley Butler testifies before the McCormack-Dickenstein Committee about a potential coup to overthrow the American government. The Committee's investigation proves the evidence to be credible, despite ridicule from the American media, with a New York Times editorial describing it as a "gigantic hoax".

1935

 * March 1935: Germany begins a massive rearmament campaign in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
 * October 3, 1935: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins.
 * December 27, 1935: Mao Zhedong pushes for a united front against Imperial Japan.

1936

 * March 7, 1936: Germany reoccupies the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
 * May 7, 1936: Italy annexes Ethiopia.
 * July 17, 1936: The Spanish Civil War begins.
 * July 1937: German forces begin to send support to General Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
 * August 1, 1936: The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Germany, with it being the first worldwide sports event to be broadcasted on live television.
 * August 3, 1936: African-American Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash in the 1936 Summer Olympics. This enrages Hitler, as it the Olympics begin to fail to prove the strength of his "Aryan" race.
 * October 1936: Josef V. Stalin begins his Great Purge in the USSR.

1937

 * May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg Disaster occurs.
 * July 7, 1937: The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
 * November 5, 1937: Hitler announces his policy of acquiring Leberschaum.

1938

 * March 12, 1938: German forces occupy Austria. The nation is annexed a day later.
 * September 29, 1938: The Munich Agreement occurs over the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, which results in the "Peace in our time" declaration, a day later.
 * November 9, 1938: The Night of Broken Glass begins in Germany.
 * December 17, 1938: The world's first nuclear fission process is done by Otto Hahn. This is considered by many historians to be the start of the Atomic Age.

1939

 * April 1, 1939: The Spanish Civil War comes to an end.
 * August 2, 1939: The Einstein-Szilárd Letter is signed, thus beginning work on the creation of the atomic bomb. Little did they know that by the time they discovered the bomb, Germany would get its hand on it first.
 * September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, officially starting WWII.