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Start of Totalitarianism and World War II

  • Mussolini Organizes Fascist Party in Italy

    Mussolini Organizes Fascist Party in Italy
    Mussolini Founds the Fascist Party
    The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political representation of fascism.
  • Mussolini Named Prime Minister of Italy

    Mussolini Named Prime Minister of Italy
    He created a Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922.
  • Joseph Stalin Became Leader of Soviet Union

    Joseph Stalin Became Leader of Soviet Union
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953.
  • Hitler Writes "Mein Kampf"

    Hitler Writes "Mein Kampf"
    Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
    Mein Kampf is an (auto)biography of Hitler, published in July 18, 1925, of his childhood and reign in Germany.
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    Japan Invades Eastern China

  • The Manchurian Incident

    The Manchurian Incident
    The Manchurian Incident, or Mukden Incident, was a staged event engineered by Japanese military as a distraction for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China (Manchuria).
  • Hitler Became President of Germany

    Hitler Became President of Germany
    Hitler Becomes President of Germany
    Already chancellor, Hitler succeeded Paul von Hindenburg as president of Germany.
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    U.S. Passes Neutrality Acts

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    Italy Invades Ethiopia

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    The Spanish Civil War

  • Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Formed

    Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Formed
    Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
    Officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan sign the ten-year Tripartite Pact (the Three-Power Agreement).
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    Anschluss
    Anschluss was the term for Nazi propaganda for adding Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    The conference for which the Munich Agreement (a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's adding Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers).
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Night of Broken Glass (Primary Source)
    Also known as the Night of Broken Glass, it was a attack against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians.
  • Germany Takes The Rest of Czechoslovakia

    Germany Takes The Rest of Czechoslovakia
    This was the result of the signing of the Munich Pact, which was a worthless attempt to prevent Germany’s army
  • Hitler and Stalin Sign Non-Aggression Pact

    Hitler and Stalin Sign Non-Aggression Pact
    A nonaggression pact between Germany( Hitler) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.