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Entered Parliament after having been defeated in 1919
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Became premier of Italy
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Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
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He is given a derisory five-month prison sentence.
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He is released from jail, where he wrote the beginning of "Mein Kampf."
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Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf," a ranting exploration of what passes as his ideology.
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Mussolini declared Italy a fascist dictatorship and took control over society, politics, and economics, as well as the military.
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At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky.
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Beginning of first Five Year Plan
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After the death of the first Communist dictator in the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, there was a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin won out and immediately set out to diminish any struggle for power. He further abolished all opposition and sent political prisoners to “re-education” camps. By 1928 Stalin was undoubtedly the leader of the Soviet Union
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Defeated von Hindenburg in national election. Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany.
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Hitler declares himself the “Fuhrer of Germany taking dictatorial power.
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