1937: In the middle of an around-the-world flight, Amelia Earhart and her plane disappear somewhere in the Pacific.

These party purges, however, are only a small part of the death toll now being exacted in a country undergoing forced industrialization, much of it by means of slave labor.

1937: Stalin uses carefully staged show trials in Moscow to eliminate all rivals for leadership.

1937: Japan attacks China and annexes most of that nation's coastal areas.

Like the two others before it, Italy now withdraws from the League of Nations.

1937: Italy signs the Anti-Comintern Pact, signed by Germany and Japan the preceding year.

On a 'bloody Sunday' in July, communists in Hamburg attack Nazis with guns, and a fierce battle ensues.

1932: In German elections, Nazis gain a 37 percent plurality of Reichstag seats, raising tensions between the far right and the far left.

Farnsworth demonstrates a working model of the television, and Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître proposes the Big Bang Theory. Eliot's poem The Waste Land will transform literature and inaugurate the era of modernism.

1922: Published this year James Joyce's novel Ulysses and T.

Their version was validated by the investigation conducted by the La Follette Committee. To the contrary, the strikers argued that the police had started to shoot the peaceful demonstrators with no reason. Accounts in newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, fostered paranoia of an imminent communist revolution, describing the strikers as a trained military unit. The police claimed that they had been attacked by demonstrators with clubs and bricks and that they had to respond with reasonable force to defend themselves and break up the mob. In the violent riots that ensued, 10 strikers were killed and 40 were wounded.

On Memorial Day 1937 strikers and their families joined with sympathizers in a demonstration in front of the Republic Steel plant in Chicago. This refusal led to bitter confrontation and violence.

A group of smaller steel companies, the so-called Little Steel group, refused to sign the same agreement. Steel Corporation, the largest American steelmaker, that warranted an eight-hour workday and a 40-hour workweek. In March 1937 the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) signed an agreement with U. Chicago, Illinois, United States 1937 Synopsis

Homestead strike cause and effect