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(note: I will periodically use interludes to cover spans of time and to mention events in the world at large. Items in italics are ahistorical, non-italicized items actually happened)

1934

* December 1 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev (it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder).
* December 5 - Abyssinia Crisis: Ethiopian and Italian troops exchange gunfire. Reported casualties for the Ethiopians are 150, and for the Italians 50.
* December 29 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

1935

* January 1 - Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined together as Libya
* January 7 - Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims
* January 11 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California
* February 26 - The Luftwaffe is created as Germany's air force. (March 11?)
* March 16 - Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
* April 14 - Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads". The hardest hit areas were where in Eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma.
* May 6 - Square Deal: Works Progress Administration (WPA) creation, originally planned by FDR, is scrapped by President Garner.
* May 27 - In the case of Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, aka the "Sick Chicken Case", U.S. Supreme Court declares the National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
* June 9 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: China's Kuomintang government concedes Japanese military control of north-eastern China.
* June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
* August 14 - United States Senate votes down Social Security Act, one of the final "pet" projects of late president FDR to receive support from his successor.
* September 8 - Carl Weiss fatally shoots US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", in the Louisiana capitol building.
* September 13 - Howard Hughes sets new aviation speed record in his H-1.
* September 15 - Nuremberg Laws in Germany legalize discriminatory practices against people with one or more Jewish ancestors.
* October 2-3 - Italian army invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)
* November 14 In General Election in Britain, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.
* December 27 - Mao Zedong issues the Wayaopao Manifesto: On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against Japanese Invasion.

1936

* February 6 - The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
* February 29 - Emperor Hirohito orders the Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices - 19 of them are executed in July.
* March 7 - In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
* July - A major heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States, hundreds of high temperature records are set
* July 13 to 14 - Peak of July 1936 heat wave. The states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature.
* August 1 - The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany.
* October 28 - US President John Nance Garner rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.