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Things were going to be even worse. In 1940, the Jews were moved into ghettos; like Warsaw (the biggest one) where a lot of people died from starvation and disease (500,000 people)
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Albania and Somalia were occupied in 1939.
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The Pact of Steel was signed between Hitler and Mussolini on 22nd May 1939. Japan also joined this pact to fight against communism (Anti-Comintern Pact).
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Hitler commanded the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, which involved the outbreak of World War II
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Hitler wanted Austria to be a part of his Reich and promoted the so-called Anschluss. (1938)
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Czechoslovakia. In the Czech area of the Sudetes there were around 3.5 million Germans, who should be ruled by a German power based on Hitler’s principles. On 29th September 1938 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France reached the Munich Agreement, where Germany annexed the Sudetes
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Mussolini conquered and annexed Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1936.
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The Rome-Berlin Axis was created on 1st November 1936.
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Ernst Röhm controlled the SA (over 400.000 men). On the 30th June 1934, Hitler ordered to arrest Röhm and others. Several hundred people were killed. This was called the Night of the Long Knives. Röhm was shot the next day. When Hindenburg died, Hitler became Chancellor, President and Commander-in chief of the army. He was called Der Führer (the leader). Democracy was dead.
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n January 1933 Hitler decided to call for another election (March 1933) hoping to make the Nazis stronger in the Reichstag (Parliament).
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The Reichstag building (February, 1933) was burned down and hitler blamed the communists, being imprisoned and made illegal by the Communist Party.
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In1932 living conditions were serious in Germany. Over five million people were unemployed and the country was desperate for a strong government. President Hindenburg called an election (April 1932) but did not get the majority. The new government still could not govern properly, and after the new elections (November 1932) Hindenburg offered Hitler the post of Chancellor (head of government)
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Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty in 1929 with the Pope Pius XI: Italy acknowledged the independence of the Vatican as a sovereign state.
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in the next elections (1924) fascists got the power.
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In 1923 Germany suffered hyperinflammation. The production did not keep up with the money that had, then began to lose its value. Prices increased, the middle classes lost their savings and the market became useless.
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n 1923 they changed from chancellor to Strasmann, The National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis), created by Adolf Hitler tried to take over Munich (Munich Putsh). But they were defeated and Hitler went to prison for nine months
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Socialists summon a general strike in 1922
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Creation of the republic in February 1919. it was a democratic government.
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In 1919, Communists tried to take over Berlin in the Spartacist Revolt, but they were defeated.