Manchukuo founded
1932 · Event
Japan installs Puyi, last Qing emperor, as figurehead ruler of puppet state of Manchukuo; League of Nations condemns; Japan withdraws.
On these timelines: Master, Japan, China, World War II
Around 1932
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)