World Events
- Germany leaves the League of Nations; the first concentration camps are established; Germany becomes a one party state.
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany; forms Nazi Cabinet and gains dictatorial powers.
- Freud's books are burnt in Berlin; Nazis attack modernism. Artists and writers begin to leave Germany (60,000 between 1933 and 1939).
- Japan leaves the League of Nations.
- Prohibition is repealed in the USA.