Adolf Hitler - Battleship Tirpitz
Time: Friday Apr 1, 1938
Place: Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Details: In a speech in Wilhelmshaven for the launch of the battleship Tirpitz on 1 April, he threatened to denounce the Anglo-German Naval Agreement if the British continued to guarantee Polish independence, which he perceived as an "encirclement" policy.
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Irish War of Independence-Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising against British rule
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Adolf Hitler-Five years' imprisonment
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The Holocaust-Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
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Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels composed the text of the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
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Francisco Franco-Victory was proclaimed
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Apple Inc.-Foundation
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April 1938


Adolf Hitler-Fall Grün
 Apr, 1938  - Germany


Benito Mussolini-Britain and Italy signed the Easter Accords
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 Sunday Apr 3, 1938  - Germany


Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Uncle Lord Milford Haven died
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Adolf Hitler-Renounced both the English and Polish Agreement
 Thursday Apr 28, 1938  - Germany
1938


Pope John Paul II-Germans Occupied Poland
 1938  - Karkow, Poland


Pope John Paul II-Jagiellonian University
 1938  - Karkow, Poland


Ho Chi Minh-Returning to China
 1938  - China


Richard Nixon-Opening up his own branch of Wingert and Bewley
 1938  - La Habra, California, U.S.


Martin Bormann-Bormann was Granted SS Number 555
 1938  - Germany


Martin Bormann-Organizing the 1938 Nuremberg Rally
 1938  - Nuremberg, Germany


Martin Bormann-The Trips to Austria
 1938  - Austria


Martin Bormann-Bormann ruled that any members of the Clergy Who Were Holding Party Offices should be Dismissed
 1938  - Berlin, Germany


Cameras-The Super Kodak
 1938  - U.S.


Juan Carlos I-Born
 Wednesday Jan 5, 1938  - Rome, Italy


Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle became a disciple of Émile Mayer
 1938  - France


Spanish Civil War-Tarragona fell
 Saturday Jan 15, 1938  - Tarragona, Spain


Spanish Civil War-Barcelona fell
 Wednesday Jan 26, 1938  - Barcelona, Spain


Adolf Hitler-The Sino-German alliance
 Feb, 1938  - Germany


Spanish Civil War-Girona fell
 Wednesday Feb 2, 1938  - Girona, Spain


Winston Churchill-Matters came to a head
 Feb, 1938  - London, England, United Kingdom


Second Sino-Japanese War-Japanese raiders hit Chongqing
 Friday Feb 18, 1938  - Chongqing, China


Spanish Civil War-United Kingdom and France recognized the Franco regime
 Sunday Feb 27, 1938  - Spain


Samsung-Founding
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Winston Churchill-Churchill warned the government against appeasement and called for collective action to deter German aggression
 1938  - London, England, United Kingdom


Spanish Civil War-Nationalists launched the Aragon Offensive
 Monday Mar 7, 1938  - Aragon, Spain


Adolf Hitler-Unification of Austria with Nazi Germany
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The Holocaust-Germany annexed Austria
 Saturday Mar 12, 1938  - Austria


World War II-Germany annexed Austria
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Father's Day-Dodd had the help of the Father's Day Council
 1938  - New York, U.S.


Itzak Stern-Stern was engaged to Sophia
 1938  - Poland


Second Sino-Japanese War-The Battle of Tai'erzhuang
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Adolf Hitler-Secret meeting with Henlein
 Monday Mar 28, 1938  - Berlin, Germany


Adolf Hitler-Fall Grün
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Benito Mussolini-Britain and Italy signed the Easter Accords
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Adolf Hitler-Prepare for Fall Weiss
 Sunday Apr 3, 1938  - Germany


Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Uncle Lord Milford Haven died
 Friday Apr 8, 1938  - London, England, United Kingdom


Anna May Wong-Dangerous to Know
 1938  - U.S.


Anna May Wong-"The World's most beautiful Chinese girl"
 1938  - Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.


Anna May Wong-Chinese Benevolent Association of California honored Wong
 1938  - California, U.S.


Adolf Hitler-Renounced both the English and Polish Agreement
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Alan Turing-Turing Obtained His PhD From The Department of Mathematics
 Wednesday Jun 1, 1938  - Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.


DC Comics-Action Comics
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Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle appointed government minister
 Sunday Jun 5, 1938  - France


W. E. B. Du Bois-Canceled project
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Juneteenth-Texas governor J. V. Allred issued a proclamation
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Library of Congress-John Adams Building completed
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Howard Hughes: The Aviator-Around the world record
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Spanish Civil War-Battle of the Ebro
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Hirohito-The Emperor authorized the use of Toxic gas in Wuhan invasion
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The Holocaust-Adolf Eichmann was put in charge of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna
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Alan Turing-Turing had been Working Part-Time With The Government Code and Cypher School
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Winston Churchill-Four volumes of Marlborough: His Life and Times were published
 Sep, 1938  - England, United Kingdom


Severo Ochoa-Ochoa in Oxford
 1938  - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom


Adolf Hitler-Munich Agreement
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Nobel Prize-Forbidden laureates
 1938  - Germany


Winston Churchill-Chamberlain signed up to the Munich Agreement
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World War II-Munich Agreement
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Martin Bormann-Moving To Munich
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Winston Churchill-Churchill called the Munich Agreement "a total and unmitigated defeat"
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Lucky Luciano-U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case
 Monday Oct 10, 1938  - Washington D.C., U.S.


Second Sino-Japanese War-The Japanese captured Wuhan
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Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels were distributed Free radios
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Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Joining the Nazi Party
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The Holocaust-Polish Jew shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the German Embassy in Paris
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Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels instigated the murder of Jews
 Tuesday Nov 8, 1938  - Germany


The Holocaust-Ernst vom Rath died
 Wednesday Nov 9, 1938  - Paris, France


The Holocaust-30,000 Jews were sent to the Buchenwald, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
 Wednesday Nov 9, 1938  - Germany


The Holocaust-Kristallnacht
 Thursday Nov 10, 1938  - Germany


Xerox-Chester Carlson invented a process for printing images
 1938  - U.S.


Mao Zedong-4th Marriage
 Sunday Nov 20, 1938  - China


Nuclear Power-Contradicting Fermi
 1938  - Germany


Benito Mussolini-Members of "TIGR" plotted to kill Mussolini
 1938  - Italy


The Holocaust-Approximately half the German Jewish population had left Germany
 1938  - Germany


Jimmy Hoffa-First Child
 1938  - Detroit, Michigan, U.S.


Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels urged to produce inexpensive home receivers, called Volksempfänger
 1938  - Germany


Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels redirected his propaganda machine against Poland
 1938  - Germany

