In China, it was the year Edgar Snow arrived in Yan'an and Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped in the Xi'an Incident.
In Japan, the Imperial Way Faction was purged after a failed coup on February 26 of this year, while in the Middle East it was the year the Wafd was discredited by signing the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and the year the Arab Revolt began in Palestine. In China, it was the year Edgar Snow arrived in Yan'an and Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped in the Xi'an Incident. The Matignon Agreements were signed in France in this year, in which Léon Blum and the Popular Front first came to power, and it was the year of Haile Selassie's speech at the League of Nations. Britain had three kings in this year because of Edward VIII's abdication, while in the United States, the phrase "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont" was coined in this year after Alf Landon's defeat. For 10 points, name this year when Franklin Roosevelt was first re-elected.
In Japan, the Imperial Way Faction was purged after a failed coup on February 26 of this year, while in the Middle East it was the year the Wafd was discredited by signing the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and the year the Arab Revolt began in Palestine.
1936