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Mussolini's March on Rome
Mussolini became leader of Italy in late 1922, the March on Rome officially marked the beginning of the Facial Rule. He formed a new government and threatened violence on Rome if government wasn't handed over. He then was named Prime Minister. -
Hitler Writes Mein Kampf
The book described the process by Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future planes for Germany. He wrote 400-plus pages on; The French, who wished to dismember Germany, the lack of Lebensraum, "living space," and the need to expand east. -
1st "Five Year Plan" in USSR
The number of Soviet workers in industry, construction, and transport grew from 4.6 million to 12.6 million and factory output soared. This helped the USSR a leading industrial nation. The plan met industrial targets quicker. The plan lasted until 1932. -
Stalin becomes a Dictator
Stalin was the dictator of the USSR from 1929 to 1953. With his lead, the Soviet Union was turned from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. Unfortunately he ruled by horror and millions of his own citizens died under his reign. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan invaded without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations. Japan had a lack of resources and turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber and lumber in order to make up for lack of resources in their land. -
Holodomor
Was a man-made famine that convulsed the Soviet republic of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 which peaked in the late spring of 1933. Holodomor was part of broader Soviet Famine that also caused mass starvation. Drought has been assumed but with further studies it also came from plant disease. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
He was appointed Chancellor after a series of Electoral Victories of the Nazi Party. The ex Franz von Papen and backed by German businessman, convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor. -
"Night of the Long Knives" in Germany
Was a purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler in 1934, fearing that SA had become too powerful. Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Rohm. He killed over 400 members of the SA due to him not allowing businessmen or the army annoying him. -
Nuremburg Laws Enacted
The laws embodied many of the racial theories underpinning Nazi ideology. They then provided the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. The Jews were not easy to sight, due to them putting down traditional practices and getting more involved in the mainstream society. Nazis rejected the traditional view of Jews as members, they claimed instead that Jews were a race defined by birth and by blood. -
Italian Invasion on Ethiopia
They're goals of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige which was wounded by Ethiopia defeat of Italian forces at Battle of Adowa. The war demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations when League decisions were not supported by the great powers. -
The Great Purge and Gulags
More than a million other people were sent to forced labor camps, known as Gulags. It was a bloody operation caused rampant terror throughout the USSR. The Great Purge was a brutal political campaign led by the dictator, Joseph Stalin. They planned to eliminate dissenting member of the Communist Party and anyone who was considered a threat. -
Spanish Civil War
This was a result of many factors, the failure of Spanish democracy being the primary cause. This resulted from the refusal of the Spanish political parties and groups to compromise and respect democratic norms. In 1939, the Republicans finally surrendered Madrid, bringing the Spanish Civil War to end. Up to a million lives were lost during the conflict. -
The Rape of Nanking
This was an event of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the people of Najing. They butchered nearly 150,000 males and raped approximately 20,000 females of all ages who were being killed or already dead during the process. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. Also known as, "Night of Broken Glass," 30,0000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. They unfairly fined the Jews for the mess that was not caused by them. -
Nazi Germany Invades Poland
They invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the East. The Invasion shows Hitlers intention to wage war which would become the "blitzkrieg" strategy. Hitler had a base of operations within the target country, he immediately began setting up "security" to annihilate all enemies Nazi Ideology. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
The Attack was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. They intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia.