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Mussolini starts his own newspaper
In 1917 the United Kingdom financed the newspaper: Mussolini made a commitment, for the sum of 100 pounds a week, to boycott any pacifist demonstrations in Italy -
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WWI
WWI started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and ended with Germany signing an agreement -
October Revolution
The Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia -
February Revolution
The monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the Provisional Government -
The Treaty of Versailles is signed
This Treaty ended everything that had to deal with WWI -
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister
Mussolini's obvious pride in his achievement at becoming the youngest prime minister in Italian history was not misplaced. -
Hitler is arrested
Hitler was sentenced to five years in the Langsberg prison -
Stalin takes power in the Soviet Union
Stalin was officially hailed as his successor as the leader of the ruling Communist Party and of the Soviet Union itself. -
Spain becomes a Republic
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Holodomur
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
Mussolinini invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on Oct. 3, 1935 by Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians committed countless atrocities on the independent African state. Poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps were all employed -
Franco takes power in Spain
The general and dictator Francisco Franco ruled over Spain. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic -
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Stalin's Great Purge
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The Spanish Civil War
military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country -
Kristallnacht
referring to the thousands of shattered windows that littered the streets afterwards, but the euphemism does not convey the full brutality of the event. Kristallnacht was a turning point in the history of the Third Reich, marking the shift from antisemitic rhetoric and legislation to the violent, aggressive anti-Jewish measures that would culminate with the Holocaust -
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Spain becomes a republic
First Spanish Republic, was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874