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Mussolini’s March on Rome
The March on Rome was an organized mass demonstration in October 1922 which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's death in 1924. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's ideology. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
On 18 July 1925, Hitler’s book, Mein Kampfwas published. He wrote it in prison, where he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted in 1923. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
In the Soviet Union the first Five-Year Plan (1928–32), implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. -
Japan invades Manchuria
In September 1931 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Manchuria, and refugees fled their burning cities. -
Holodomor
Holodomor was also know as the Ukrainian Famine and was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
Hindenburg acquiesced and on 30 January 1933, he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
The Night of Long Knives was the purge of the SA leadership and other political opponents from the 30 June 1934 to the 2 July 1934. Over 150 people were murdered and hundreds more were arrested. -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935. -
The Great Purge and gulags
Hundreds of thousands of victims were accused of various political crimes (espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-Soviet agitation, conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups). They were quickly executed by shooting or sent to the Gulag labor camps. -
Spanish civil war
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. -
The Rape of Nanking
The Japanese military committed bloody atrocities against the residents of Nanjing and prisoners of war, killing them in extremely cruel methods including mass execution, burning, burying alive, beheading, and biting by dogs. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffe -
Nazi Germany invades Poland.
After the Axis attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, the entirety of Poland was occupied by German -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
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By attacking Pearl Harbor Japan believes that it can severely cripple the U.S fleet and buy them time in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.