History

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    start - end

  • Hitler

    Hitler

    joined a struggling group called the national socialist German workers' party, "Nazi Party"
  • Mussolini

    Mussolini

    established the Fascist party
  • Mussolini

    Mussolini

    marched on Rome with thousands of his followers
  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union

    Russia hopes for democracy gave way to civil war, resulting in the establishment of a communist state, officially called the Soviet Union
  • Death

    Death

    V.I. Lenin died
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin

    Takes control of the country
  • U,S.

    U,S.

    The united states signed the Kellogg- Briand pact
  • soviet dictator

    outlined the first of several "five-year plans" to direct the industrialzations
  • Japan

    Japan

    moderate japanese officials, the militarists launched a surprise attack and seized control of the chinese province of Manchuria
  • Germany

    Some 6 million Germans were unemployed
  • Nazis

    Nazis

    had become the strongest political party in Germany
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    was appointed Chancellor (prime minister)
  • Hitler

    pulled Germany out of the Leauge
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    began a military build up in violation of the treaty of Versailles
  • Neutrality Acts

    Neutrality Acts

    Congress passed a series of neutrality acts(acts that allowed sales or loans to nations at war)
  • Italian soildiers

    tens of thousands of Italian soildiers stood ready to advance on Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia

    had fallen
  • Rebelled

    Rebelled

    A group of Spanish army officers led by General Fransico Franco, rebelled against the Spanish republic
  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union

    Had become the world's second-largest industrial power
  • Japan

    launched a new attack on China
  • Hitler

    met secretly with his top military advisers: he boldly declared that to grow and prosper Germany neede the land of its neighbors
  • German

    German

    German troops marched into Auatria unopposed
  • Stalin

    Stalin

    had firmly established a totaltarian government that tried to exert complete control over its citozens
  • Germany

    Germany

    Fascist Germany and communist Russia now commited never to attack eachother
  • Germany

    Germany

    invades poland; used tanks, air force, bombs, etc.
  • Stalin

    sent his Soviet Army into Finland
  • Franco

    Franco

    francos victory established him as Spains fascist dictator
  • Hitler

    handed French officers his terms of surrender
  • German

    German

    approxiametly 2,000 German planes range over Britian every night for two solid months, bombers pounded london
  • KAF

    shot down over 185 german planes; at the same time, they lost only 26 aircraft
  • Germans

    the germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast