AP 27 By Bayne Y 1920 Mussolini gains power 1921 New Economic Policy in USSR Oct 31, 1922 Mussolini seizes dictatorial power 1928 Collectivization begins in the USSR Nov 1, 1928 Stalin’s first five-year plan 1929 Great Depressionn Feb 11, 1929 Lateran Agreement Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 1932 Famine in Ukraine Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor Mar 23, 1933 Enabling Act Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Laws 1936 Stalin's Great Purge Mar 7, 1936 Germany militarizes the Rhimeland Jul 17, 1936 Spanish Civil War Begins Jul 7, 1937 Japanese army invades China 1938 Germany occupies the Sudetenland Nov 10, 1938 Kristallnacht Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Period: Sep 3, 1939 to Sep 5, 1939 Britain & France declare war on Germany Jun 25, 1940 Germany defeats France Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Oct 31, 1940 Battle of Britain Period: 1941 to 1945 The Holocaust Jun 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack 1942 Operation Torch 1942 Battle of Midway 1942 Stalin gains power in the USSR Period: Aug 23, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943 Battle of Stalingrad Jun 6, 1944 D-Day May 8, 1945 VE Day Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bomb drops on Nagasaki Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb drops on Hiroshima Aug 14, 1945 VJ Day