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Mussolini’s March on Rome
The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. -
Stalin become dictator of USSR
Stalin became the dictator of the Soviet Union. After growing up in Georgia, he became a political activist, conducting discreet activities for the Bolshevik Party for twelve years before the Russian Revolution -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
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 -
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 -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria because they were Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries -
Holodomor
the famine was caused by a combination of a severe drought, chaotic implementation of forced collectivization of farms, and the food requisition program carried out by the Soviet authorities -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
Je became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945 -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point for the German government. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
Law of the Reich Citizen
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour -
The Great Purge and gulags
Joseph Stalin's campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union -
Spanish civil war
military revolt against the Republican government of Spain -
The Rape of Nanking
It was a mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany -
Nazi Germany invades Poland.
an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
It 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