The Austrian Civil War was a brief conflict in February 1934 between the government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and the Social Democrats. Dollfuss had suspended parliament in 1933 and ruled by decree, and he banned several political groups, creating a corporatist, authoritarian regime that was opposed to both the socialists and the Nazis. When police searched for weapons at a Social Democratic party base in Linz, members of the party's paramilitary Schutzbund resisted, and fighting spread to Vienna and other industrial cities. The army and police used artillery against workers' housing blocks, including the Karl-Marx-Hof. The uprising was crushed in a few days, the Social Democratic Party was banned, and the divided country was left weaker against Nazi pressure.
Before and after
- 1934Founding of British Council
- 1934Construction of University of Tehran
- 1934Founding of Bank of Canada
- 10 January 1934Birth of Leonid Kravchuk
- from 12 February 1934 to 16 February 1934Austrian Civil War
- 9 March 1934Birth of Yuri Gagarin
- 3 April 1934Birth of Jane Goodall
- 29 April 1934Construction of Warsaw Chopin Airport
- 15 June 1934Establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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