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| 1935 |
| | | New Nazi laws announced at Nuremberg strip Jews of their German citizenship | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Stalin stages the first of the Moscow show trials, designed to eliminate any surviving high-level opponents | |
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| 1936 |
| | | In response to the gang violence of Oswald Mosley's black-shirted thugs, a Public Order Act in the UK bans political uniforms | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Unemployed English workers march for 26 days from Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, to demonstrate at Westminster | |
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| 1936 |
| | | US publisher Henry Luce launches a new picture magazine, calling it simply Life | |
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| 1937 |
| | | The first can of Spam goes on sale, produced by the Hormel company of Austin, Minnesota | |
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| 1937 |
| | | George Orwell reveals the harsh realities of contemporary British life in The Road to Wigan Pier | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Two million Anderson air-raid shelters are distributed to British homes, to be constructed in the garden from corrugated steel panels | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Civilian heroism is rewarded in Britain with a new medal, the George Cross | |
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| 1940 January 8 |
| | | The ration book is introduced in Britain, at first just for bacon, butter and sugar, but soon also for meat, eggs, tea, milk, cheese, jam, and clothing | |
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