Unemployment in Germany exceeds 3 million. 107 Nazis win seats in Reichstag. War breaks out between Paraguay and Bolivia. Revolution in Brazil. Revolution in Argentina.
Japan invades Manchuria.
Hunger marches by unemployed in Britain. U.S. deploys first atomic bomb, destroying Hiroshima and, later, Nagasaki. U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Feminist Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex . World population at 2.5 billion.