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He marches on Rome and forms a fascist government
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adopted by Lenin to allow for partial infusion of capitalism to instigate economic revival
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics composed of 15 Euro-Asian republics, all controlled by Communist Party headquartered in Moscow
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League of Nations adopted the policy made by British government in 1917--- to make room for Jews in Palestine---into British Mandate for Palestine
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Came into power after death of Lenin in 1924, rules as Soviet dictator until death in 1953
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Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf
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more radical scheme than New Economic Policy. violent peasant resistance resulting in deadly famine in Russia and Ukraine
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First games to allow women to compete
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U.S. securities losing $26 billion, first phase of Depression
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Brits were enforcing extreme taxation on India, Gandhi walked 240 miles to Dandi on the Arabian Sea and picked up a lump of salt and encouraged India to break the British tax law. Brits arrested many including Gandhi.
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Signed by Britain, US, Japan, France, and Italy
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Japan blew up their own train tracks and blamed the Chinese in efforts to war for control (esp. Manchurio). Japan = "government by assassination" -
Communist members who were kicked out of office by Jiang Jieshi (1927) and regrouped in peripheral areas of southeast China. Eventually they were exterminated by 1934 by Jieshi. Attempt to rebuild power in the northwest occurred (Long March).
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First woman to fly Atlantic solo -
resulting from Stalin's aggressive 5 year plan failure, resistors were deported to gulags (labor camps) where 400k died
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67 days later, anti-semitistic laws issued to remove anyone related to Jews -
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Guernica, prewar order in Asia and Europe, long-time control of Palestine by the Arabs, collapse of British Raj in India, and prewar global political and economic institutional framework.
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Mao Zedong begins the Long March north with 100k soldiers (Chinese communists)
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Power struggle between left and right
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Countless murders and rapes of civilians by Japanese
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First air raid on a European civilian population, introduction of twentieth century warfare -
Hitler annexes German-speaking Austria and Sudetenland, seizing all of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, then Poland later in 39
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Brilliant Austrian physicist born into a Jewish family, later converted to Protestantism. She along with Otto Hahn discovered the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. -
Hitlers wars in Northern Europe, conquering Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. Less infantry, more tanks. -
First major campaign fought entirely by air forces. Hitler's first loss.
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Japan reaction to Chinese communist forces in the north, all Chinese were fair game for unrestrained terror.
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Offered a job to clean at a provincial hotel only for it to be a brothel for Japanese soldiers
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Soviet forces murdered an estimated 22-25,700 Polish military and police officers and intellectuals to be buried then in the Katyn Forest in western Russia (Stalin)
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The beginning of many mass killings by the Germans, later killing many at Odessa, Nikolaev, Transnistria, Kaunas, Kovel
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Germany invades Soviet Union to make more living space for the Germans, which pushes them to join the Allies
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Japanese surprise attack on US Navy installation at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Kicked off war in the Pacific and brought the US into WWII -
Germans locked Jews who had tried to escape in the Great Synagogue then murdered them
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movement to resist Britain's attempt to use India in WWII by threatening nation-wide civil disobedience, failed
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Atomic bombings by the US on Japan, ending the terror of Japan in the war when they agreed to unconditional surrender.
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US conquers Saipan in the Mariana Islands which gave them access to Japan by plane, they dropped fire bombs, killing 100k civilians in Tokyo.
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formed: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (replaced later by World Trade Organization), International Monetary Fund.
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Nazi collaborator serving as prime minister of German-occupied Norway, executed 1945 -
French Nazi collaborator, greatest WWI hero turned enemy collaborator...willingly and actively deported French and non-French jews to concentration camps. Tried for treason. -
Brit government was too exhausted and removed themselves from their rule in India, India split into Dominion of Pakistan and Union of India
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by a militant Hindu nationalist upset with his concern for Muslims
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5 Arab states on that day sent military forces into Palestine: Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and noncontiguous Iraq. 1947-1948