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Russian war begins
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces -
creation of faciast party
This was a symbol of authority in ancint Rome. Mussolini talked about reviving roman greatness in his speeches. He organized veterans and other discontented Italians into the Fascist party. -
Hitler Joins NSDAP
Hitler joined a small group of right wing extremists. In a year, he was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers, or Nazi Party. His Nazi "Storm Troopers" fought against communists and enemies. -
NEP
an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it state capitalism. Allowing some private ventures -
march on rome
Fascists made a bid for power. They demanded that the government make changes. Tens of thousands of Fascists chanted "onto Rome" as they swarmed into the capital. -
beer hall putsch
Hitler's attempt to overthrow the weimer government of Ebert and establish a right wing nationalistic one in its place. -
mein kampf
Means " My Struggle." Written by Hitler while in jail and it was the "Holy book of Nazi goals and ideology. -
lenin's death
a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician -
5 year plan
series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union. -
collectivation of agreculture
The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms -
invasion of Manchuria
when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
nazi win majority
With the government paralyzed by divisions, Nazi's and Communists won more seats in the reichstag, which is the lower house of the legislature. -
hitler becomes chancelor
Conservative politicians decided that Hitler must become chancellor. They said he was a vulgar rabble-rouser but planned to use him for their own ends. -
invasion of ethiopia
Also remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian war, Mussolini wanted to annex Ethiopia into one of Italy's newly created colonies in East Africa. Italy occupied Ethiopia but the Abyssinians did not surrender to the Italian forces. -
hitler re-militerizes the rhineland
The Treaty of Versailles had prevented Germany from having armed forces in the area of Germany between the Rhine river & France or Belgium. Hitler marched 22,000 of his troops into this area even though he was not supposed to. -
the great purge
The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and murder in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from. -
rape of nanjing
a mass murder, and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of -
Anschluss
Union of Austria and Germany. This also violated the treaty of Versailles and created a brief war scare. -
munich conferance
British and French leaders again chose appeasement. Hitler assured them both that he had no further plans for expansion. -
Capture of Sudetenland
Hitler persuaded the Czechs to surrender the sudetenland without a fight while at the Munich conference. -
berlin rome tokyo axis
a military alliance in under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies. -
nazi soviet non-agression pact
signed in Moscow, under which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany each pledged to remain neutral in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party.
