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Mussolini’s March on Rome
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 result of this march was Fascist coup d'état successful Mussolini formed a new government. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
It was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It begun on October 1st, 1928. In all, there were thirteen Soviet five-year plans.The first ran from the autumn of 1928 to 1933; at that time the accounting year began in October with the end of the harvest.The third plan (1938-1942) was interrupted in mid-1941 by World War II. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
Stalin had held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922 to 1952. He than held Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union in 1941 to 1953.He had initially governed the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become dictator by the 1930s. -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese did this because Japans 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. -
Holodomor
The Holodomor, was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The causes of the famine was forced collectivization in the Soviet Union of agriculture as a part of the first five-year plan, forced grain procurement, combined with rapid industrialization, a decreasing agricultural workforce, and several severe droughts. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
the Nazi Party, assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
The ¨Night of the Long Knives¨ in Germany is when they feared that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful; so Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm This event represented a triumph for Hitler, and a turning point for the German government. It established Hitler as "the supreme leader of the German people". -
Nuremberg Laws enacted
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
On 6 October, Adwa was conquered, a symbolic place for the Italian army because of the defeat at the Battle of Adwa by the Ethiopian army during the First Italo-Ethiopian War.The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century (1896), which saved Ethiopia from Italian colonisation. -
The Great Purge and gulags
The Great Purge was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to solidify his power over the party and the state.Opposing members of the Communist Party, military officers and government officials were among the first targeted. Later, educated people and ordinary citizens—doctors, writers, intellects, students, artists and scientists—were sent to the Gulag. Anyone who had ties to disloyal anti-Stalinists could be imprisoned. Over 700,000-1200000 where killed in the Gulag. -
Spanish civil war
The Spanish Civil War was the bloodiest conflict western Europe had experienced since the end of World War I. About 200,000 people died as the result of systematic killings, mob violence, torture, or other brutalities. The main cause of the Spanish Civil War, was the failure of Spanish democracy. This was because there was a refusal by the Spanish parties and groups to compromise and respect democratic norms. -
The Rape of Nanking
The Nanjing Massacre (The Rape of Nanjing) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing that happened immediately after the Battle of Nanjing in the Second Sino-Japanese War,by the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning on December 13, 1937,the massacre lasted for six weeks.The Imperial Japanese Army had; killed suspected Chinese soldiers,massacred families living outside the Safety Zone,and raped tens of thousands of women.The Japanese army also looted the city and burned down many buildings. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00 a.m., on Sunday, December 7, 1941. Japan decided to attack the U.S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, hoping that the U.S would negotiate peace. The attack at Pearl Harbor was a huge gamble, but one which did not pay off.