Timeline 1924-1933 (Twilight of a New Era)

For more details see Twilight of a New Era (1914-1964).

1924

 * Establishment of the Pan-American Union
 * US Congress approves the Commonwealths and Americas Relations Act.

1925

 * Battle of Mecca (Confederation of Arab States)
 * Occupation of Riyadh (Confederation of Arab States)
 * 26 June – Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: A 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

1926

 * 1 January Flooding in the Rhine River strikes Cologne.

1927

 * 7 March – A Richter Scale 7.6 magnitude earthquake kills at least 2,925 at Toyooka and Mineyama area, western Honshu, Japan.
 * 22 April – 5 May – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in U.S. history at that time.
 * 22 May - An 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000.
 * 11 July - An earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300. The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Trans-Jordan such as Amman, Salt and Lydda.

1928
Invasion of Cuba by the US

1929

 * Inauguration of the Associated Free State of Cuba

1930

 * 6 May – The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran (7.3 on the Richter Scale) kills 4,000 people.
 * 25- November 25 – An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.
 * 19 December– Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupts, killing 1,300.

1931

 * 31 March – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people.
 * July The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people
 * 31 August – The Yangtze River floods, leaving 23 million homeless.

1932

 * 25 December – An earthquake in the Kansu Province in China kills 70,000.

1933

 * 3 March A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan, killing some 3,000.
 * 25 August August 25 – The Diexi earthquake shakes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.