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1932
• In India, Mahatma Gandhi campaigns for better treatment of the 'untouchable' caste. • The kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Iraq become independent. • On 15 June, Chaco war over disputed border territory between Bolivia and Paraquay begins (ends June 1935). • In the United States, unemployment reaches 14,000,000 (see Great Depression). • In October, Sir Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists. • On 8 November, the Democratic candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the US presidential election by a landslide against incumbent Herbert Hoover, so becoming the 32nd president. He begins to introduce the New Deal, which aims to tackle the social effects of the Great Depression. • In a Cambridge laboratory, British scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split an atom of lithium. • The first autobahn, or motorway, is opened between Cologne and Bonn in Germany. • British writer Aldous Huxley's visionary novel about the future, Brave New World, is published. • Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic gold medal swimmer-turned-actor, stars in the first Tarzan 'talkie'. |
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