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Hitler, born in Austria.
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Turning point, from church boy to Communist Leader.
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Goes to deligate for the Bolsheviks meets Lenin for the first time.
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Bolsheviks officially separate from Social Democrats, Stalin appointed to the Party's Central Committee by Lenin.
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[Date not specific] In 1913, Hitler moves to Germany for the first time, avoiding military service in Austria.
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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.
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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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Civil war in Russia. Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere.
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[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.
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[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.
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Challeneges previous chair and recieves position.
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Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Official founding of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Served time in prison for trying to overthrow the government- writes book on his ideals, soidifies his plans.
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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.
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Allied with Bukharin and the "Rightists," Stalin begins attacks on Zinoviev.
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Rapid Industrialisation - planned to make Russia into a modern superpower. Added to his credibility
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Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class"; collectivization begins in earnest.
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Terrible famine across the Soviet Union; millions die
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He could finally run for President / absolute leader of Germany at that point.
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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
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Showing his lack of cooperation solidly, ignores arms restriction in Treaty of Versailles.
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Crushes all other opposition within Germany to his party.
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Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others are arrested, accused of complicity in Kirov's assassination.
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Hitler signs treaty to get the surrounding areas of Czech.
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One of the large massacre days of killing Jews.
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At Eighteenth Party Congress, Stalin announces end of the Great Terror. After eliminating all his enemies and suspicions with little evidence against his condemdees.
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Outbreak of World War II
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Trotsky assassinated, by Stalin's agents, in Mexico City.
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Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed in Moscow
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Ignores treaty and invades Russia.
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Pearl Harbour bombed, USA enters the fight
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Battle of Stalingrad. Germans are defeated, marking the turning point in the war.
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Commits suicide with his family in war bunker.
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United States uses atomic bomb against Japan, bringing an end to the war in the Pacific.
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Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia, cementing Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
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They signed the Sino-Soviet treaty, non-agression pact between China and USSR.
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This includes relations with USA and USSR, causes the North/South split.
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Of illness