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The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals -
Mein Kampf was Hitler's plan or "blueprint" of his agenda for the third Reich -
The first five-year plan was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the USSR -
Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, Stalin consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's de facto dictator by the 1930s -
Japan was highly developed but the land had little resource so they turned to Manchuria for resources such as oil, rubber, and lumber. -
Holodomor was the starvation of millions of Ukrainians who resisted the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet state. -
Hitler rose to power and was able to pull off his plan of making Germany a unified one-party state -
This event helped Hitler become all-powerful by removing his political opposition -
These laws deprived Jews of their rights -
The League of Nations condemned the Italian invasion in 1935 and voted to impose economic sanctions on the aggressor -
A political campaign led by Joseph Stalin as an attempt to eliminate disagreeing members of the communist party between 1936 and 1938 -
The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. It shifted the powers in Europe -
The Japanese massacred 150,000 male war prisoners and 50,000 male civilians. 20,000 women were raped and mutilated. -
The Nazis vandalized Jewish properties and killed/ injured over 100 Jews. -
Germany invades Poland from Sep 1, 1939 – Oct 6, 1939, marking the beginning of the war. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and leads to the US involvement in the war.