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This was a demonstration of where thousands of Fascist Black shirts Storm on Rome and forced King Victor Emmanuel the third to appoint Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. It was the event that brought Mussolini to power constitutionally, ending Italy's democracy and establishing the first Fascist rise in Europe also had Hitler Inspired. -
This autobiography was written by Adolf Hitler while he was imprisoned after the "Beer Hall Putsch". This autobiography laid out Hitlers main political purpose which included his concept of living space for the German people, his future plans for Germany, and how he will rise to power. Effectively serving as the map for the Nazi Party's goals. -
This was a list of economic goals that were implemented by mostly focusing on rapid industrialization and the force of collectivization and of agriculture all across the Soviet Union. The purpose was to transform the USSR from a primarily agrarian society into an industrial power and showed the foundation for strengthening Stalin's control over the economy and population. -
After the death of Lenin, Stalin eliminated his political rivals, like Leon Trotsky, to gain total control over the Communist Party and the country. Through his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party, he had controlled appointments that allowed him to stack the key posts with loyalists, this led to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship and the start of the cult of personality. -
The Japanese Army, using the Mukden Incident as an excuse. They invaded and occupied the rich region of Manchuria in northeastern China. The Japanese forces staged the Mukden incident to make the Invasion look better because they needed to secure natural resources like coal and iron that was needed for its industry and military expansion. The natural resources where for Japan’s industries and military, setting for aggressive expansionism and challenging the authority of the League of Nations. -
This was a man-made massacre in Soviet Ukraine resulting from the economic and agricultural policies of the Soviet regime under Stalin. Why: It was a deliberate act resulting from the confiscation of grain from Ukrainian peasants to enforce collectivization and crush Ukrainian nationalism and resistance to Soviet rule. Millions died. -
The German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as head of the German government. It was the key legal step in Hitler's rise to power, allowing him to dismantle democratic institutions and begin establishing the totalitarian Nazi regime, the Third Reich. -
This was a purge where the Nazis participated in political assassinations and targeting leaders of the SA, like Ernst Röhm, and other opponents. The main purpose was to eliminate rivals in the Nazi Party especially the SA leadership and to secure the support of the German Army making Hitler’s absolute power as the unchallenged leader of Germany ensured. -
The two legislative acts that were passed at the Nazi rally in Nuremberg, the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour. they were institutionalized racial theories, that defied who was considered Jewish based on ancestry and not on religion and it striped Jews of German citizenship and ending all marriages or sexual relations between Jews and Germans or related blood. They were the legal foundation for the persecution of Jews in Germany. -
The Italian forces invaded the African nation of Abyssinia Ethiopia as part of Mussolini's goal to build an Italian empire. It was a demonstration of the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations, which had failed to stop the strong aggression besides the imposing of weak sanctions, farther encouraging Hitler's own territorial goals. -
This was a conflict between the Republican government and the Nationalist led by General Francisco Franco. It was seen as a rehearsal for WWII, when Germany and Italy supported Nationalists with troops and weapons, testing out new military tactics and hardware, while the Soviet Union supported the Republicans. -
This was a campaign of repression in the Soviet Union where Stalin ordered the arrests, trials, and executions of millions "enemies" of the state, many of who were sent to forced labor camps known as gulags. The mass arrests and executions, combined with the forced labor system, eliminated all Stalin's doubts about his totalitarian control and terrorizing the population into obedience. -
During the Japanese War the Japanese Army captured the city of Nanking, witch is the capital of China, and engaged in a mass murder and rape of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers. The Japanese Army committed a mass murder and rape in the Chinese capital. This had revealed the brutality of the Japanese military when they conducted this inhuman act during the war in China. It was an uproar that shocked the world and made the conflict between the two nations more serious than it was before. -
The Night of Broken Glass organized pogroms against Jews. This marked the shift from discrimination to an organized physical violence act. On that night Synagogues were burned, Jewish businesses and homes were looted and destroyed, and thousands of Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This marked the transition from discrimination to organized physical violence against the Jewish population. -
German forces invaded Poland using the lightning war tactic. This invasion led to Britain and France declaring war on Germany two days later, officially marking the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
The Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It killed over 2,400 Americans and damaged the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The next day, the United States declared war on Japan, formally bringing the U.S. into World War II and extending the conflict globally.