Events - Timeline

King George V dies in January only a year after celebrating his Silver Jubilee

Edward VIII, the Prince of Wales, becomes Great Britain's ruling monarch from January to December

The depression lingered on with unemployment continuing to fall to 16.9%, and Hitlers Germany continued to show the world it was not scared of anyone but the 36 Olympics caused Hitler humiliation when his Aryan Supermen were dominated by the great Jesse Owens

Walt Disney premieres "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" on December 21st at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles, California

The popular Looney Tunes character Daffy Duck appears for the first time during April in the animated short “Porky’s Duck Hunt.”

1931 Construction of the The LZ 129 Hindenburg starts as the largest German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH ( Zeppelin Company )

The War of the Worlds was a radio adaption of the H.G. Wells' novel of the same name

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, later known as the March of Dimes, was founded on January 3rd

At the end of World War I the Treaty of Versailles was signed to end the state of war between Germany and the Allied forces in 1919

In December of 1938 uranium fission is discovered and physicists begin to study nuclear physics

Germany begins an invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg on May 10th

Germany begins an invasion of Northern France on May 12th

Germany and Italy agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom

The war in Europe continued to dominate world affairs but a new threat was growing which would soon involve America as the Japanese caused a threat Asia in the Pacific and preparations for war continued

Following the US entering the war , the mobilization of war efforts were quick and effective with car makers and other manufacturers changing to production of weapons of war

The Pentagon, considered to be the world's largest office building is completed

On June 6th the D-DAY invasion ( Operation Overlord ) starts with allied forces crossing the English Channel to land in Normandy which signaled the end of the war in Europe

Following effects from Polio as a young man President Roosevelt died on April 12th