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The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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Established himself as dictator of Italy in 1924 and founded the ideology of Fascism.
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Established himself as the Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Becomes Chancellor of Germany and and head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party.
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Establishes himself as dictator assuming the title of "Fuhrer". Nazism shared many features of Fascism but also featured racism.
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Italy invades Ethiopia in October 1935
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Japan joined Germany in signing the Anti-Comintern Pact (an anti-communist pact) against the Soviet Union
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Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany
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Adolf Hitler ordered German troops to invade Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939. The Germans also took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. German forces invaded Poland from the west.
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Britain and France respond to the invasion forces by declaring war on Germany September 3, 1939. The events leading up to WW2 had drawn to a conclusion. World War II had begun...
