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Mussolini's March on Rome
The March on Rome marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the proceeding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. The outcome of this event was Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party increased in power throughout the Kingdom of Italy. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf was Hitler's only complete book and the work became the bible of National Socialism, and was a part of the ideology idea. Hitler established the idea that Jews and "Bolsheviks" were inferior racially and ideologically and the "pure" "Aryan" race were racially superior and politically superior. -
The 1st "five year plan" in USSR
The 1st "five year plan" In USSR was created to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan invaded the Chinese raw materials to fuel its increase in industries. Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. -
Holodomor
Holodomor was the mass killing of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933. The Holodomor occurred because it was believed that the famine was caused by severe drought issues, chaotic implementation of forced collectivization of farms, and the food requisition program carried out by the Soviet Authorities. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
Following many negotiations between industrialists, Hindenburg's former chancellor and Hitler both agreed to it. Hitler was elected by the votes from the Nazi Party due to the fear that Hitler would take the more control and power. Hindenburg believed he could control Hitler and elected him chancellor January 20, 1933. -
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point for the German Government. It was a purge conducted by the Nazi Party to establish Hitlers power and control and establish Hitler as the Supreme Administer of Justice of the German People. -
Nuremberg Laws Enacted
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws enacted by Hitler at a meeting of the Reichstag. The Nazis enacted these laws so they could put their antisemitic ideologies into laws. The Nuremberg laws consisted of The Reich Citizenship Law and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. -
Italian Invasion of Ethopia
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as The Second Italo-Abyssinian War. This war was a war of aggression fought between Italy and Ethiopia between the dates of October 1935, and February 1937. Italy invaded Ethiopia to boost Italian National Prestige, after theirs was wounded by Ethiopians defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa. -
The Great Purge and Gulags
The Great Purge was a aggressive political campaign Joseph Stalin organized where the leaders caught political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union and housed them in transit camps and prisons. The Purpose of The Great Purge and Gulags was to eliminate political opponents within Germany so they could obtain complete power, fear, and reduce the fear of party infiltration and counterrevolution. -
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936-1939. The Main cause of the Spanish Civil War was the failure of Spanish democracy due to a refusal from the Spanish parties and groups to compromise and follow democratic norms. The Spanish Civil War was the bloodies conflict and mass killing Western Europe had experienced since World War 1. -
The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking was the mass murder and mass raping of Chinese Civilians in Nanjing by the Imperial Japanese troops. The Imperial Japanese troops committed the rapings and murders to break the spirit of Chinese resistance. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also referred to as the November Pogrom was a Pogrom against the Jews organized by The Nazi Party Paramilitary troops and civilians in Germany who did not like the Jewish community. -
Nazi Germany Invaded Poland
The Invasion of Poland also known as the September campaign was a 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign. An attack on The Republic of Poland by Nazi leaders and the Soviet Union which led to the beginning of World War II. Germany's purpose of invading Poland was to regain lost territory and rule the Eastern Side. The significance of the Invasion of Poland was it established the war strategy Hitler would use that we know as the "blitzkrieg" strategy. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. Japan launched this attack to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from destroying its planned military action in Southeast Asia. The significance of the bombing of Pearl Harbor was it ultimately drew the United States into World War II. -
Stalin becomes Dictator of USSR
After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin's main goal was to industrialize Russia and form leadership.