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In China, frustrated military commanders actually kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek to force him to make peace with the Communists and unite against the Japanese invaders. In Japan, radical right-wing Army officers assassinated their enemies and attempted a coup.

The end results in China were a Second United Front and a new determination to resist the Japanese. In Japan, they were a strengthened determination to dominate East Asia. War is coming.

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The Spanish coup failed, but the rebel generals began a civil war against the Republic. Early efforts to take Madrid failed, but the Nationalists were on the advance everywhere else.

The Basque town of Guernica became world famous, following a brutal bombing by Spanish, German, and Italian aircraft.

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Performed by Gordon Rowland. Public domain recording. Source.

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Literature changed after the Great War. New writers emerged, famously dubbed “the lost generation” by Gertrude Stein, who challenged their literary elders.

Old conventions were out, replaced by new, more internalized, and more subjective ways of looking at the world.

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“From Uncle Remus” from Woodland Sketches
Composed by Edward MacDowell in 1896. Public domain.
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Franklin Roosevelt went into the 1936 election confident, although he faced challenges from both the right and the left.

This was the first election in which pollsters used modern sampling techniques to predict the result. Some came quite close. Others, notably Literary Digest, flubbed.

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