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Dictators come to power

  • Mussolini's March on Rome

    Mussolini's March on Rome

    On October 28, 1922, thousands of fascists marched toward the capital, threatening to seize power through the use of violence. This allowed Mussolini to gain power of Italy.
  • Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin became the Dictator of the USSR. Along with Stalin Socialism was implemented in the USSR
  • Hitler writes Mein Kampf

    Hitler writes Mein Kampf

    While in prison Hitler writes a book called Mein Kampf which told the struggles of Hitlers life
  • 1st Five Year Plan

    1st Five Year Plan

    In 1928, Stalin launched his First Five-Year Plan to speed up the process of industrialization in the Soviet Union so that it could compete with output levels in developed capitalist economies.
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invaded Manchuria seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries.
  • Holodomor Begins

    Holodomor Begins

    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.
  • Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany which was the highest government position in Germany
  • Knight of the long knives

    Knight of the long knives

    Adolf Hitler purged all of his opposers from June 30 to July 2
  • Nuremberg Laws enacted

    Nuremberg Laws enacted

    The Nazi regime's Nuremberg Race Laws of September 1935 made Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbors.
  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italy invaded the lesser advanced Ethiopia to make itself look stronger.
  • Spanish civil war

    Spanish civil war

    The Spanish civil war was a war between the nationalist backed by Nazi Germany and the Republicans backed by the USSR
  • Anti-Comintern Pact

    Anti-Comintern Pact

    Germany and Japan become "allies" in the sense that if the USSR attacked either of them the other would have their back.
  • The great purge begins

    The great purge begins

    In 1937 Stalin began eliminating his political opponents to have more control over the USSR.
  • The rape of Nanking

    The rape of Nanking

    The rape of Nanking involved the mass murder of 100's of thousands Chinese civilians. 20-80,000 Chinese women were raped during this time. The whole thing lasted six weeks
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    "The night of broken glass" when many Jewish businesses and shops were broken into and had their windows smashed with even some Jews dying.