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was a major war centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in November 1918.
The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was the proximate trigger of the war. -
The party grew out of smaller political groups with a nationalist orientation that formed in the last years of World War I.
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The National Fascist Party was an Italian party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It existed from 1922 until 1991.
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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Strongly believing in socialism, Mussolini was against Italy’s involvement in war; in fact, he was imprisoned for his pacifist propaganda when Italy declared war on Turkey in 1911.
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917.
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The Kellogg–Briand Pact was signed on August 27, 1928 by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other countries. The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.[1] It made no provisions for sanctions. The pact was the result of a determined American effort to avoid involvement
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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.
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Starting in his "First Hundred Days" in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt launched major legislation and a profusion of executive orders that gave form to the New Deal
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In 1935 he abandoned the Versailles Treaty and began to build up the army by conscripting five times its permitted number.
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The four Neutrality Acts of the late 1930s represented an effort to keep the United States out of "foreign" wars, an effort resulting in part from widespread questioning of the reasons for and results of America's participation in World War I. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/neutrality-act#ixzz1Bay0NUTX
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After the end of World War II, Franco maintained his control in Spain through the implementation of austere measures:
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In 1936 Hitler ordered German troops to enter the Rhineland. At this point the German army was not very strong and could have been easily defeated. Yet neither France nor Britain was prepared to start another war.
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Italian troops captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abeba in the spring of 1936, and, on May 9, 1936,
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On July 7, after long-time plans to conquer China, Japan started what has been called the first battle of World War II. The Japanese army was training near Lugouqiao, a bridge across the Yongding River about ten miles west of Beijing, China, when a soldier went missing.
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Hitler began his conquests by occupying Austria in March 1938 and annexing it to Germany. Next he demanded from Czechoslovakia the Sudetenland, a region bordering Germany and peopled mostly by a German-speaking population.
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The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia.
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German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement.
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The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War
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The command of the German air forces started intensive studies of the capabilities of the Great Britain's air forces as early as in January 1939.
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The history of Spain spans from prehistoric Iberia, through the rise and fall of a global empire, to the recent history of Spain as a member of the European Union.
