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Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf was published. He wrote it in prison, where he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted in 1923 -
The March on Rome came about as part of a drive to establish Mussolini and his Fascist Party as the key political party in Italy. -
Stalin assumed leadership over the Soviet Union following Lenin's death in 1924. -
The first five year plan was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the USSR -
immediately following the Mukden Incident Japan invaded Manchuria. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Joseph Stalin feeling threatened by Ukraine's strengthening cultural autonomy, Stalin took measures to destroy the Ukrainian -
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the Nazi party as chancellor of Germany -
The purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler to get rid of any threat. Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders. -
The Nazis enacted the Nuremberg Laws because they wanted to put their ideas about race into law. -
Italian troops invaded Ethiopia forcing the country's Emperor, Haile Selassie, into exile. Italy soon took control and used it for its resources. -
The “Great Purge,” the Soviet secret police arrested millions of people, including government officials, scientists, artists, and intellectuals, and sent them to gulags (work camps). -
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists with the Nationalists being led by Francisco Franco. -
The Rape of Nanking was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking -
the Nazi regime coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence. This became known as Kristallnacht or the "Night of broken glass" -
German troops invaded Poland triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.