Hitler comes to power
The Nazis build a dictatorship within months
On 30 January 1933 President Hindenburg appointed the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Within months the Nazis banned other parties and set up a dictatorship that led to the Second World War and the Holocaust.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 15 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 6 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 14 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 15 years later
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 4 years earlier
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 3 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 8 years later
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 9 years later
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 12 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 25 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 18 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 17 years earlier
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 1 year earlier
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 15 years later
Africa
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 11 years earlier
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 2 years later
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — 23 years later
- 1958 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart — 25 years later
Asia
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 10 years earlier
- 1931 China floods — 2 years earlier
- 1934–1935 Long March — 1 year later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 12 years later
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 20 years later
Americas
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 19 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 4 years earlier
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 3 years earlier
- 1945 ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer — 12 years later
- 1947 Invention of the transistor — 14 years later
Oceania
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 21 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 3 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 8 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 9 years later
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Nikola Tesla (aged 77)
- Marie Curie (aged 66)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 64)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 62)
- Winston Churchill (aged 59)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 55)
- Albert Einstein (aged 54)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 52)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (aged 52)
- Adolf Hitler (aged 44)