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March on Rome, the insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. -
The 1st "five-year plan" was implemented by Joseph Stalin, which concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. -
Stalin was appointed dictator of the USSR. This is important because Stalin will play a huge role in World War II as helps the allies defeat Germany. -
In 1931 Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations. Japan had a highly developed industry, but the land was scarce of natural resources. Japan turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber, and lumber in order to make up for the lack of resources in Japan. -
Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933. Hitler being one of the most famous villains in this time period played a huge role in World War II. He is most known for his massacre of the Jewish population during his time as chancellor. -
It was part of a broader Soviet famine (1931–34) that also caused mass starvation in the grain-growing regions of Soviet Russia and Kazakhstan. -
Night of the Long Knives, in German history, the purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm. -
When the Italians invaded Ethiopia it causes a lot of turmoil in Europe. The League of Nations condemned the Italian invasion, but it had no effect as the sanctions lacked general support from the public. -
The Spanish civil war took place from 1936-1939. It was a military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, This is important because it stopped Germany from gaining a strong ally, which could have changed the outcome of the war. -
The Great Purge, also known as the “Great Terror,” was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. -
The Rape of Nanking was a horrible event that took place in late 1937. The Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanking. -
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
When Hitler invaded Poland it was a very significant event because it was the beginning of the Second World War. -
Japan bombing Pearl Harbor was a very important event in World War II. Japan bombing the US forced the US to get involved in the war.
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The trials began November 20, 1945, in Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, which had somehow survived the intense Allied bombings of 1944 and 1945. The so-called "Nuremberg Laws"— a crucial step in Nazi racial laws that led to the marginalization of German Jews and ultimately to their segregation, confinement, and extermination