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 Abrams, Creighton
 Alcala Zamora, Niceto
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 Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal
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 Ciano
 Colijn, Hendrikus
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 Deverell, Cyril
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 Farouk I
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 Haile Selassie I
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   1st Flight   Edward VIII
  19th Jan   1st British monarch to fly in a plane
   Abdication   Baldwin, Stanley
     Baldwin's Government negotiates the abdication of Edward VIII
   Abdication   Bowes-Lyon
  11th Dec London   Albert, Duke of York, becomes George VI & Elizabeth becomes Queen Consort
   Abdication   Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer
   London   Supports Edward VIII during the abdication, loses much political support
   Abdication   Edward VIII
     Abdication is legislated by Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act, 1936
  16th Nov   Informs Baldwin he wishes to marry Wallis Simpson
  16th Nov   Wallis Simpson & Edward VIII become the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
  3rd Dec   The press informs the public of the King's desire to Mary Wallis Simpson
  10th Dec   Chooses to abdicaterather than give up, "The woman I love"
  11th Dec   Broadcasts to the nation after his decision to abdicate
   Affair Braun   Braun, Eva
   Berchtesgaden   Braun joins Hitler in his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden
   Alliance   Schuschnigg, Kurt von
   Mar   Austria, Hungary & Italy sign the Three Power Pact
  11th July   Austria agrees that her foreign policy would be determined as a "German State"
   Alliance   En-Lai, Chou
   Oct   Chang Hsueh-Liang signs a secret non-aggression pact with Chou En-Lai
   Alliance   Hsueh-Liang, Chang
   Oct   Chang Hsueh-Liang signs a secret non-aggression pact with Chou En-Lai
   Alliance   Kai-Shek, Chiang
     Nationalists & Communists form an Alliance against the Japanese
   Alliance   Hitler, Adolf
   Feb   France ratifies a treaty with Russia, Hitler uses this to march into the Rhineland
  11th July   Austria agrees that her foreign policy would be determined as a "German State"
  1st Nov Berlin   Signs the agreement, effectively ending the Treaty of Versailles
   Alliance   Nehring, Walter Kurt Josef
     Ordered to take control of the flow of guns, tanks & volunteers to Franco's army
   Alliance   Neurath, Constantin Freiher von
   Locarno   Advises Hitler to withdraw from the 1925 Locarno pact
   Alliance   Ribbentrop, Joachim von
   Berlin   Negotiates the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact
  25th Nov Berlin   Signs the Anti-Commintern Pact with Japan
   Alliance   Ciano
  1st Nov Berlin   Signs the Axis agreement in Berlin on behalf of Italy
   Alliance   Ciano, Galeazzo
  1st Nov Berlin   Signs the Axis agreement in Berlin on behalf of Italy
   Alliance   Mussolini, Benito Amilicare Andrea
   Mar   Austria, Hungary & Italy sign a Three Power Pact
  1st Nov Milan   During a speech Mussolini publicly refers to an "Axis" without divulging it's details
   Alliance   Hirohito
   Nov Berlin   A Japanese-German Convention is signed in Berlin
   Nov Berlin   To "combat the subversive activities" of the Comintern
   Alliance   Stalin, Joseph
  26th July   The Comintern agree to furnish volunteers & money to support the Spanish Republic
  6th Oct   Russia decides to supply the Republicans in Spain
   Alliance   Franco-Bahamonde, Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo
     Supported by Italy & Germany
     The Republicans are supported by Russia & the international brigade
  26th July   The Russian led Comintern agree to supply volunteers & money to the Spanish Republic
  28th July   1st arrival of German and Italian planes in aid of the Nationalist side
   Ambassador   Ribbentrop, Joachim von
   London   Appointed Ambassador to Britain