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The Treaty of Versailles angered Germany for they believed there was nothing fair in a treaty that blamed them for the start of the war.
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Hitler joins The German Workers Party otherwise known as the NAZI Party. He joins to spy for the govt. but realizes that they have potential.
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By 1921, Mussolini had established the Fascist
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After Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin took control of the country. Stalin focused on creating a model communist state. In so doing, he made both agricultural and industrial growth.
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The Great Depression helped the Nazis come to power. Because of war debts and dependence on American loans and investments, Germany’s economy was hit hard. By 1932, some 6 million Germans were unemployed. Many men who were out of work joined Hitler’s private army.
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German President Hindenberg appoints Hitler as Chancellor.
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In its first act of military aggression under the Hitler regime, Germany violates the terms of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by militarizing the Rhineland, a strictly demilitarized zone on Germany’s Western Front.
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Nazi Germany completes the Annexation or Anschluss of Austria. Austria was the first country to be annexed by Hitler’s Germany.
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Adolf Hitler, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, French Premier Édouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact. The Pact allows Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia where many ethnic Germans lived, in an effort to appease Germany and prevent war.
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World War 2 begins.
