Italy annexes Ethiopia. Trotsky exiled to Mexico. Spanish civil war begins. Italy withdraws from League of Nations . U.S. gunboat Panay sunk by Japanese in Yangtze River.
Japan invades China, conquers most of coastal area.
Picasso 's Guernica mural. Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage. Orson Welles 's radio broadcast War of the Worlds. Einstein writes FDR about feasibility of atomic bomb. New York World's Fair opens.