| 1930: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States. |
| 1931: British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh. |
| 1932: The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol. |
| 1940: The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. |
| 1942: Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication. |