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Ending on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was founded in November 1917 by the Bolshevik Party. Led by Vladimir Lenin and, after 1923, by Josef Stalin, the Bolsheviks (later known as the Communists) established Communist rule in the former Russian Empire after the conclusion of a bitter civil war in 1921.
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The country was formed in 1918 immediately after World War I as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia. It was commonly referred to at the time as the "Versailles state". Later, the government renamed the country, leading to the first official use of Yugoslavia in 1929.
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The Spanish flu killed around 50 - 100 million people worldwide.
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Disappointed with the failure of the British Army to recognise the importance of airfields in modern warfare, Prime Minister Churchill made the RAF responsible for the defence of its own bases and the RAF Regiment was formed on 1 February 1942, with its first headquarters established at RAF Belton Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
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Tandey, a native of Warwickshire, was transferred to the 9th Battalion in France and was wounded again during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. From July to October 1918, for which he earned a Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery.” Hitler is the one sitting down on the right
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Many Germans felt their country had received a very harsh deal in the Treaty of Versailles. They resented the government for agreeing to its conditions and signing it, even though they were forced to by the Allies. The Weimar Republic's unpopularity meant it faced violent uprisings from both sides of the political spectrum during 1919 and 1920.
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In 1919, a national assembly convened in Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, then adopted on 11 August of that same year. Beginning of a new constitution post ww1
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Franco's regime was the only fascist government to stay in power after World War II. Benito Mussolini's Fascist movement rose to power in the late 1920's as a reactionary force, responding to pervasive popular disillusionment with the ineffective government in place at the time. Perhaps the most infamous example of an interwar totalitarian regime can be seen in the NAZI party's control of Germany between 1933 and 1945. -
Mussolini started his time in power by buying support from both the working class and the industrial bosses. Changed Italy's constitution and brought about many changes in Italy. -
On November 8–9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempted coup d'état which came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch. They attempted to create a new government based on race. They failed but integrated it into a heroic effort.
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He rised to power and did three main things. The five year plan, collectivisation, and the purges. Fought as leader of Russia in ww2.
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The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. After the Great Depression Governments were more involved in the economic stability of the market.
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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. He immediately sent a powerful message of anti-Jew and anti-Communist feelings. He would remain chancellor until 1934. The picture is of Paul Avon Hindenburg(former chancellor of Germany) ‘metaphorically’ passing down the ‘torch’ to the newer generation. -
Hitler violates the Versailles Treaty even further by sending his army into the Rhineland area.
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The Olympic Games are held in Berlin. All of the "No Jews" posters are removed until August 16.
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Germany brought Austria under its control in 1938.
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Germany invades Poland and World War II begins.
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Germany invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France.