History Thread for “1937”

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December 13, 1937 Wars & Conflicts

Nanjing Massacre Historical Overview

The Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War after Japanese forces captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of China, on Dec...

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October 5, 1937 Politics

David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record

Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote a letter to his son Amos following the Peel Commission’s proposal to partition Mandatory Pales...

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October 5, 1937 Politics

David Ben-Gurion 1937 Letter Controversy

Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

David Ben-Gurion 1937 Letter Controversy On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion, then head of the Jewish Agency Executive, wrote a letter to his son Amos during the period following the Br...

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October 2, 1937 Wars & Conflicts

Haitian Parsley Massacre Overview

Dajabón · Dajabón Province · Dominican Republic

The Haitian Parsley Massacre, also known as the 1937 Parsley Massacre or the Haitian Massacre, was a mass killing carried out by the Dominican Army under the orders of Dominican dictator ...

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April 19, 1936 Wars & Conflicts

Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936–1939)

Nablus · West Bank · Palestine

The Arab Revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration under the British Mandate, which followed the 1917 B...

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Bombing of Guernica

26 April 1937 — German Condor Legion aircraft and Italian forces attack the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The raid kills civilians and destroys large sections of t...

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Full-Scale Sino-Japanese War Begins

7 July 1937 — Fighting near the Marco Polo Bridge escalates into a major war between Japan and China. Japanese forces capture major cities including Shanghai and Nanjing, but China does n...

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Hossbach Conference

5 November 1937 — Hitler meets senior military and foreign-policy leaders and discusses Germany's need for territorial expansion. The surviving memorandum records Austria and Czechoslovak...

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Hossbach Memorandum

5 November 1937 — Adolf Hitler addresses senior military and foreign-policy leaders and discusses Germany's need for territorial expansion. The surviving memorandum records Hitler present...

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

1937–1945 wartime expansion — Mitsubishi becomes one of Japan's most important industrial groups supporting naval construction, aircraft production, machinery and other military requireme...

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Neville Chamberlain

28 May 1937 — Chamberlain becomes British prime minister and becomes closely associated with appeasement. His policy seeks negotiated revision of some grievances while buying time for Bri...

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R7

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Untitled5 November 1937 — During the Hossbach meeting, Hitler presents territorial expansion as necessary for Germany's strategic future. Austria and Czechoslovakia are discussed as poten...

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