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| 1932, Jan. 22 | |
| Simultaneous uprisings, organized by Farabundo Martí and his followers, were set to begin throughout the countryside. Martínez, however, was informed of the plan, and suppressed the rebellion easily. In the aftermath, in a series of actions known as LA MATANZA (The Massacre), perhaps as many as 30,000 people were hunted down and killed by government forces on the pretext of their Communist or otherwise subversive tendencies. These actions set the tone for the Martínez dictatorship. | 1 |
| 1937, Aug. 10 | |
| El Salvador withdrew from the League of Nations. | 2 |
| 1939 | |
| Salvadoran women were granted the vote. | 3 |
| Jan. 20 | |
| A constitutional congress abrogated the constitution of 1886 and adopted a new regime, headed by Gen. Andrés I. Menéndez. | 4 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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