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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. -
Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin became the Dictator of the USSR. Along with Stalin Socialism was implemented in the USSR -
While in prison Hitler writes a book called Mein Kampf which told the struggles of Hitlers life -
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 invaded Manchuria seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries. -
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. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany which was the highest government position in Germany -
Adolf Hitler purged all of his opposers from June 30 to July 2 -
The Nazi regime's Nuremberg Race Laws of September 1935 made Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbors. -
Italy invaded the lesser advanced Ethiopia to make itself look stronger. -
The Spanish civil war was a war between the nationalist backed by Nazi Germany and the Republicans backed by the USSR -
Germany and Japan become "allies" in the sense that if the USSR attacked either of them the other would have their back. -
In 1937 Stalin began eliminating his political opponents to have more control over the USSR. -
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 -
"The night of broken glass" when many Jewish businesses and shops were broken into and had their windows smashed with even some Jews dying.