Ronald Reagan and the American Dream (TRIH ep 310, part 1)
1937 · Resource
This episode is the first of a multi-part series surveying the life of Ronald Reagan. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace Reagan's origins in Tampico, Illinois (born 1911), his Midwestern small-town upbringing, family dynamics, faith, and early love of sport and performance.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1937
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)