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Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party (PNF) ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy -
Serving in the Russian Civil War before overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922, Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's death in 1924 -
Mein Kampf promoted the key components of Nazism: rabid antisemitism, a racist worldview, and an aggressive foreign policy geared toward gaining Lebensraum (living space) in Eastern Europe. -
to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
By the end of the 1920s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidated his control over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Feeling threatened by Ukraine's strengthening cultural autonomy, Stalin took measures to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry and the Ukrainian intellectual and cultural elites to prevent them from seeking independence for Ukraine. -
Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, -
German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. -
It established Hitler as the supreme administrator of justice of the German people -
The Nazis enacted the Nuremberg Laws, because they wanted to put their ideas about race into law. -
A war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937 -
The Great Terror of 1937, also known as the Great Purge, was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. -
(1936–39), Military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, -
An agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan, that they would work together to stop the spread of Communism around the globe -
the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” and massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, -
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary