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  Mussolini organized the fascist party on March 23, 1919 and it was a right-wing organization that advocated Italian nationalism, had black shirts for uniforms, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against its leftist opponents.
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  Joseph Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin's death.
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  Hitler's Book Mein Kampf was Hitler's philosophical autobiography with the title translating to "My Struggle"
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  Staged event by Japanese military as a pretext to invading Eastern China
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  Before he was president, he was Chancellor. But after the president's death in 1934, he held a plebiscite vote that voted him as president.
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  The U.S. Neutrality Acts were a series of attempts to keep the U.S. neutral and uninvolved in the foreign war.
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  A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland gave Mussolini an excuse to invade. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935.
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  Hitler sent troops into Rhineland, despite it being against the Treaty of Versailles
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  The Spanish Civil War was between the Mexican liberals and the Republicans. The Republicans rebelled against the leftist ruling and government.
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  Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland. This was after Hitler had threatened to take the Sudetenland by force.
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  Hitler and Stalin had opposing views, but they set those aside due to Hitler needing help and Stalin not being friends with the opposing countries.
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  The Non-Aggression pact allowed Germany to invade Poland without being attacked by Russian forces
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  In Berlin, Germany, officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan sign the ten-year Tripartite Pact which sealed cooperation among the three nations.