WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1933
Find out what all happened March to May 1933

Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". (12. March 1933)

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions. (2. May 1933)

The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois. (27. May 1933)

Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. (5. March 1933)

Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. (17. May 1933)

Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet. (4. March 1933)

The Humanist Manifesto I published (1. May 1933)

An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage. (10. March 1933)

The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (27. May 1933)

The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman. (1. May 1933)

The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. (23. March 1933)

Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies. (9. March 1933)

Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship. (15. March 1933)

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau Concentration Camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. (20. March 1933)

The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. (26. April 1933)

Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. (20. March 1933)

Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (7. April 1933)

Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed. (21. March 1933)

Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. (24. April 1933)

English cricketer Wally Hammond sets a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand. (1. April 1933)