events leading up to WWII

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    mussolini

    mussolini took power by sending his black shirts out to kill socialist, communists, and labor organizers. they killed 3,000 political enemies from 1920 to 1922.
  • mussolini marches to rome

    mussolini and his black shirts marched to rome. this ended with mussolini taking controle of Italy
  • japan invaders Manchuria

    japan anexes Manchuria in 1931. angering china and showing there strength to the Western world.
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    hitler in power

    hitler rose to power with the help of the brown shirts who inited caous to make hitler look like a promising leader. hitler claimed he was the emperor of Germany after being appointed chancellor
  • japan invades china

    japan invades china expanding there empire through out the pacific. got nerves about the united states interfering with there expansion in 1941 they attacked perl harbor.
  • hitler invades Poland

    hitler invades Poland with his uneasy alliance with Joseph Stalin. invasion took less then a month