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WW1
World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1 or known as the First World War began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. -
Mussolini starts his own newspaper
It was founded by Benito Mussolini as a pro-war newspaper during World War I, and it later became the main newspaper of the Fascist movement in Italy after the war. -
February Revolution
the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the Provisional Government. -
October Revolution
the second Russian revolution of 1917 -
The Treaty of Versailles is signed
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. The treaty was one of several that officially ended five years of conflict known as the Great War—World War I. -
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister
On 31 October 1922, following the March on Rome, Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III, becoming the youngest individual to hold the office up to that time. -
Hitler is arrested
Adolf Hitler is sentenced for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch of November 8, 1923. The attempted coup in Munich by right-wing members of the army and the Nazi Party was foiled by the government, and Hitler was charged with high treason. -
Stalin takes power in the Soviet Union
Serving in the Russian Civil War before overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922, Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's death in 1924. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's dogma. -
Spain becomes a Republic
Primo de Rivera brought the Moroccan War to a successful end. His economic policies and public works programs benefitted Spain and reduced unemployment. By 1930, however, he had lost the support of the army and the king forced him to resign. But the king's years of cooperation with a dictator had cost him public support. A year later, he too stepped down, and Spain became a republic. -
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The Holodomor
The Holodomor also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. -
Mussolinini invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on Oct. 3, 1935 by Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians committed countless atrocities on the independent African state. Poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps were all employed. -
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Stalin’s Great Purge
In 1934, Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people perished -
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The Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War, military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country -
Franco takes power in Spain
The general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening