Hitler's Rise to Power

  • Stalin Born

  • Hitler Born

    Hitler, born in Austria.
  • Expelled from being Chruchboy

    Turning point, from church boy to Communist Leader.
  • Stalin meets Lenin

    Goes to deligate for the Bolsheviks meets Lenin for the first time.
  • Stalin Appointed to the Party's central committee.

    Bolsheviks officially separate from Social Democrats, Stalin appointed to the Party's Central Committee by Lenin.
  • Moves to Germany

    [Date not specific] In 1913, Hitler moves to Germany for the first time, avoiding military service in Austria.
  • Gets involved with Military Politics

    At the start of the First World War, Hitler joins Germany at the Western Front and does astonishingly with the 16th Barvarian Reserve Infantry Regiment.
  • Russian Revolution

    Beginning of Russian Revolution. The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. Bolsheviks, including Stalin, hasten to St. Petersburg
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    Stalin's first command

    Civil war in Russia. Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere.
  • Hitler's Tongue Trained

    [Date not specific] Hitler then goes to the propaganda department and joins the German Worker's Party- and extreme right wing organisation. This is where he learned to be so persuasive and trained his manipulative tongue.
  • Nazis are born

    [Date not specific] Hitler changes the name of the German Worker's Party to the NAZIS. They were against the government because of their signing of the treaty of Versailles and their innaction to save face and economy for Germany.
  • Hitler Becomes te Leader of the Nazis

    Challeneges previous chair and recieves position.
  • Stalin moves up in the world

    Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
  • USSR is born

    Official founding of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Mein Kampf

    Served time in prison for trying to overthrow the government- writes book on his ideals, soidifies his plans.
  • Lenin Dies

    Death of Lenin. Earlier, he had wrote in his last testament that Stalin should be removed from power. However, Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee in May.
  • Zinoviev

    Allied with Bukharin and the "Rightists," Stalin begins attacks on Zinoviev.
  • Beginning of the first Five-Year Plan

    Rapid Industrialisation - planned to make Russia into a modern superpower. Added to his credibility
  • Goodbye Kulaks.

    Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class"; collectivization begins in earnest.
  • Start of the Famine.

    Terrible famine across the Soviet Union; millions die
  • Became a Citizen

    He could finally run for President / absolute leader of Germany at that point.
  • Leading Absolutely

    The Enabling Act passed—powers of legislation pass to Hitler’s cabinet for four years, making him virtual dictator. He proclaims the Nazi Party is the only political party permitted in Germany. All other parties and trade unions are disbanded. Individual German states lose any autonomous powers, while Nazi officials become state governors
  • Leaves League of Nations

    Showing his lack of cooperation solidly, ignores arms restriction in Treaty of Versailles.
  • Night of the Long KNives

    Crushes all other opposition within Germany to his party.
  • I Am Abosolute

    Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others are arrested, accused of complicity in Kirov's assassination.
  • Meeting to tap Hitler on the Hand

    Hitler signs treaty to get the surrounding areas of Czech.
  • Crystal Night

    One of the large massacre days of killing Jews.
  • The Great Terror, Ended.

    At Eighteenth Party Congress, Stalin announces end of the Great Terror. After eliminating all his enemies and suspicions with little evidence against his condemdees.
  • WW2

    Outbreak of World War II
  • Bye Trotsky

    Trotsky assassinated, by Stalin's agents, in Mexico City.
  • Treaty between Hitler and Stalin.

    Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed in Moscow
  • Invades Russia

    Ignores treaty and invades Russia.
  • USA is here

    Pearl Harbour bombed, USA enters the fight
  • Germans Defeated

    Battle of Stalingrad. Germans are defeated, marking the turning point in the war.
  • Hitler Commits Seppuku with his Family

    Commits suicide with his family in war bunker.
  • War Ends, Atom Bomb

    United States uses atomic bomb against Japan, bringing an end to the war in the Pacific.
  • Czech is now apart of the USSR.

    Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia, cementing Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
  • Soviets Blockade East Berlin.

  • Sino-Soviet Treaty

    They signed the Sino-Soviet treaty, non-agression pact between China and USSR.
  • Start of the Korean War

    This includes relations with USA and USSR, causes the North/South split.
  • Stalin Dies

    Of illness