1932
A famine in Russia brings mounting opposition to Stalin within his own party. Brutally suppressing the peasant resistance, Stalin refuses to slacken the pace of his collectivization.
1932
Eamon de Valera is elected president of the Republic of Ireland.
1932
Engelbert Dollfuss is elected chancellor of Austria.
1932
Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt pledges a New Deal.
1932
Karl Maria Wiligut, the Austrian occultist, flees his family and emigrates to Munich. He is 66 years old. (Roots)
1932
Churchill signs a contract for A History of the English-Speaking Peoples with Cassall and Company. He soon enlists some of Britain's best young historians to assisting him with the project: F.W. Deakin, G.M. Young, Keith Feiling and Maurice Ashley. (Churchill Center)
1932
Within six weeks of graduating from Eureka College, a small Christian college near Peoria, Illinois, Ronald Reagan finds work at WOC radio in Davenport, Iowa.
1932 January
Japan establishes the puppet state of Manchukuo.
1932 February
Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels writes a letter to a member
of the (ONT) Order of the New Templars stating "Hitler is one of our
pupils...you will one day experience that he, and through him we, will one day
be victorious and develop a movement that makes the world tremble." (Ellic
Howe; Roots)
1932 March
The Romano-Soviet negotiations are held in Riga. The
French have asked their allies Romania and Poland to come to a nonaggression
agreement with their Russian neighbors.
1932 March
Theodor Eicke is arrested and accused of terrorism.
Several dozen homemade bombs are found in his possession. After posting bail,
Eicke flees to Italy, where he takes command of a group of SS exiles.
1932 March 13
Hindenburg fails to win a majority in the Presidentiall elections. Hitler receives 11,339,446 votes (30.1%).
1932 April
Romano-Soviet negotiations are broken off in Riga when
the Russians attempt to introduce a clause alluding to Russia's pretensions upon
a part of Romanian territory.
1932 April 10
Hindenburg is re-elected President in a runoff
election with Hitler. Hindenburg receives a clear majority, but Hitler receives
13,418,547 votes (36.8%).
1932 April 13
The SA and SS are banned after plans for a coup are
discovered.
1932 May 6
Paul Doumer, President of the French Republic, is
assassinated by Dr. Paul Gourgoulov, a Russian emigre.
1932 May 12
The body of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey.
1932 May 20
Amelia Earhart makes her most historic flight, leaving Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1932 May 29
World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington D.C. to demand cash bonuses they are not scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1932 May 30
President Hindenburg ousts Heinrich Bruning and appoints
Franz von Papen as Chancellor. Papen, only hours before, had promised Monsignor
Kaas that he would not undertake the formation of a new government. The Center
Party quickly censures Papen.
1932 May 31
Franz von Papen becomes Chancellor and declares his exit
from the Catholic Center Party. The Center Party, angry over Bruning's
dismissal, soon begins negotiations with the National Socialists aimed at the
formation of a coalition government. (Lewy)
1932 June
Nearly 500 pitched battles take place between Nazis
and Communists in Prussia alone. At least least 82 people were killed and 400
wounded. (The SS, Time-Life)
1932 June
The government ban on the SA and SS is lifted.
1932 June 3
President Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag.
1932 June 16
President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
