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Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento, named after the Italian peasant revolutionaries, or “Fighting Bands,” from the 19th century.
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In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union even though he wasn't the natural successor or Lenin. click here
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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. Originally a revolutionary Socialist, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922.
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Volume One of Adolf Hitler’s philosophical autobiography, Mein Kampf, is published.
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The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support, winning 37 per cent of the total vote in the 1932 election.This made it the largest party in the Reichstag, but it was Franz von Papen and other conservatives who persuaded the German president, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, to appoint Hitler as chancellor in a coalition government.
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On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
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The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. Click here
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The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.
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Mussolini followed this policy when he invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) the African country situated on the horn of Africa. Mussolini claimed that his policies of expansion were not different from that of other colonial powers in Africa.
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In 1935, Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. Sending troops there .
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(2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was an armed conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco.
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Conflict that broke out when China began full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. In an effort to unseat the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese occupied large areas of eastern China. Click here
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Was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
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Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.
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At 4:45 a.m. , about 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
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