Editing 1938 (section)

== Events ==
* January 5 - [[Josip Broz Tito]] is named General Secretary of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]].
* February 18 - End of the [[Rape of Nanking]].
* March 12 - The ''Anschluss'': the [[Nazi Party]] annexes Austria as a part of Germany.
* May 21 - [[Mutsuo Toi|Tsuyama massacre]]
* May 25 - The [[Falange de las J.O.N.S]] carries out an aerial bombing of the city of Alicante, killing between 275 and 393 people and injuring a thousand.
* August 16 - The final victim of the [[Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run]] is discovered on East 9th Street in the Kingsbury Run neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. The victim, a male, has never been identified.
* October 2 - The [[1938 Tiberias massacre]] takes place.
* November 9 to 10 - The [[Nazi Party]] launches the ''[[Kristallnacht]]'' ("Night of Broken Glass") [[pogrom]] against Jewish citizens of Germany. The attacks, carried out primarily by the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'', result in the destruction of over 7,000 Jewish businesses,  30,000 Jewish men being arrested and incarcerated in [[concentration camp]]s, and at least 91 deaths. The event is considered to be the official beginning of [[the Holocaust]].
* November 17 - [[Joseph Stalin]] declares the [[Great Purge]] to be over.
* December 16 - [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]] is named Prime Minister of Siam and subsequently establishes a [[fascist]] [[military dictatorship]].