Arson in the 1930s

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. It took place immediately after the Battle of Nanjing and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933

Kurdish and Zaza uprising against the Turkish government in Dersim, eastern Turkey

1939 battle

massacre of Ethiopian civilians during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia

during the Soviet invasion of Poland, World War II

Anti-Semitic pogrom during the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine

1932 massacre in China by Japan

Fire during the Sino-Japanese War

period of civil unrest