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Mussolini's National Fascist Party ended up ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy. -
After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin assumed leadership over the country. -
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, a book about his ideology as well as his life, his youth, his time as a soldier in WWI, and his 'conversion' to antisemitism. -
The purpose of the 1st “five year plan” in USSR was to develop heavy industry and collectivize agriculture at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. -
Japan invaded Manchuria seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries. War crimes against the Chinese became commonplace. -
Holodomor began because Stalin took measures to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry and the Ukrainian elites to prevent them from seeking independence, just because he felt threatened by Ukraine's cultural autonomy which was growing stronger. -
The Nazi Party assumed control when Hitler, the party leader, was appointed as Chancellor. -
A representation of Hitler's triumph and the German government's turning point. It established Hitler as "the supreme leader for the German people." -
The Nuremberg Laws, antisemitic and racist laws, were enacted in Nazi Germany forbidding marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans that soon extended to include Romanis and Black people. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia which launched a war led by Mussolini that would drive the Ethiopian Emperor into exile. -
The Great Purge was a political campaign led by Joseph Stalin to eliminate members with opposing opinions of the Communist Party, as well as any others he viewed as a threat. -
A military revolt against the Republican government of Spain. -
An agreement made by Germany, Italy, and Japan saying that they would work together in order to stop the spread of Communism around the globe. -
The capital of China, Nanking, fell to Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese government fled to Hankow. -
Nazis in Germany would torch synagogues, vandalize Jewish homes, businesses, schools, and murdered almost 100 Jews. Around 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps.