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Stalin was born
Stalin was born in Russia. His mother was Ketevan Geladze. His father was Besarion Jughashvili. His original name was Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashbili. He eventually adopted his name "Stalin" from the Russian word for steel. -
Mussolini was born
Mussolini was born in Dovia di Predappiio, a small town in the province of Forli in Emilia-Romagna. -
Hitler was born
Hitler was born in Austria at Braunau Am Inn. His parents were Alois and Klara. Upon being legistimised as the son of George Hitler at age 39. -
Mao was Born
He was a Chinese communist revolutionary. His fathers name was Mao Yichang, and his mothers name was Wen Qimei. -
Stalin was arrested
Stalin was arrested for the first time and exiled to Siberia -
Mussolini moves
Mussolini moved to Switzerland in 1902 -
Retaurned home
Mussolini retarned to Italy in 1904 -
Stalin's first child was born
Birth of Stalin's first child, Yakov -
Mussolini works in Austria
He lived for a short time in Austria working for a trade union -
Mussolini began work
Mussolini began work as the editor of the Italian Socialist newspaper, Avanti! -
Beginning of WWI
A global war that was centred in Europe that began on July 28,1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918. -
Mao meets second future wife
Mao meets his future second wife, Yang Kaihui -
Mussolini reported for duty
Mussolini, accepting his call to the draft, reported for duty in Milan and was assigned to the 11th Regiment of the Bersaglieri (a corps of sharpshooters). -
Beginning of Russian Revolution
The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. Bolsheviks, including Stalin, hasten to St. Petersburg -
Mao gets married
He married Yang Kaihui, daughter of Professor Yang Changji; three sons -
Lenin suffers a stroke
Lenin now suffers his first stroke -
Lenin dies
Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee in May -
KMT captures Mao's ex-wife
Kuomintang (KMT) captures Yang Kaihui and son Anying , Yang executed -
"Red Terror"
Communists torture and murder thousands of local people -
Dachau Camp was built
The first Nazi concentration camp is established on the outskirts of Dachau, the picturesque Bavarian town that will give the camp its name -
The Long March
Communist escape 8,000 miles to north and west -
The Great Purge
This was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union organized by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1939. Over 680,000 people were killed directly because of the Great Purge. -
The Holocaust
This was the mass murder (genocide) of about 6,000,000 Jews during World War II. Over one million Jewish children were killed, and approximately 2,000,000 Jewish women and 3,000,000 Jewish men, -
Mussolini died
Mussolini died at age 91, in Giulino di Mezzegra, Kingdom of Italy. -
Hitler died
He committed suicide by gunshot on April 30 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. -
Western Allied invasion of Germany
The military overrun of Nazi Germany that was conducted by the Western Allies in the final months of the European Theatre in World War II -
Stalin died
Stalin's health was deteriorating towards the end of World War 2. He suffered from atherosclerosis from his heavy smoking. He also suffered a mild stroke near the time of the Victory Parade, and a severe heart attack in October 1945. -
First 5 year plan
Mao undertakes instant industrialization of China -
Soviets threathen to Nuke China
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Mao died
Mao had been in poor health for several years, and he had declined visibility for 6 months prior to his death. Around 5:00 pm on September 2, 1976, Mao suffered a heart attack. He was taken off of life support and was announced dead at 12:10 am.