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| 1928 |
| | | Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Adolf Hitler visits his SA commander, Ernst Roehm, in his hotel before having him shot | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, is assassinated in his office, giving Stalin the pretext for his first massive purge | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Avraham Stern forms the Stern Gang, a new Jewish terrorist group in Palestine and an offshoot of Irgun | |
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| 1940 |
| | | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Yitzhak Shamir becomes leader of the terrorist Stern gang in Palestine | |
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| 1942 May 27 |
| | | Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded by Free Czech agents parachuted in from Britain | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin becomes leader of the underground terrorist group Irgun | |
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| 1944 July 20 |
| | | Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes death from a bomb placed by Claus von Stauffenberg | |
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