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March on Rome, the insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/508871/March-on-Rome
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http://www.history.com/topics/1929-stock-market-crash
Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. Panic set in, and on October 24, Black Thursday, a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. -
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The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. picture-http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/archive/nuremberg-race-laws-chart/
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The Italians had claimed Ethiopia as their territory. With economic conditions worsening at home, Mussolini needed to take actions that would distract the Italians people. In 1936, the Italians fought against poorly-armed Ethiopian troops in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia's capital). http://www.historycentral.com/Europe/ItalyInvadesEthiopia.html
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-reoccupies-the-rhineland
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In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-annexes-austria
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On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. Upon return to Britain, Chamberlain would declare that the meeting had achieved “peace in our time.” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-appeased-at-munich
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On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. picture -http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/learning_environments/kristallnacht.asp
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Pbs.org,. 2015. 'American Experience . D-Day . The Film Description | PBS'. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/filmmore/fd.html.
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The SS evacuated most of the prisoners to concentration camps further west during the spring of 1944. In late July 1944, as Soviet forces approached Lublin, the remaining camp staff hastily abandoned Majdanek, without fully dismantling the camp. Soviet troops first arrived at Majdanek during the night of July 22–23 and captured Lublin on July 24. Captured vir picture - http://www.timesrecordnews.com/lifestyle/no-headline-sarah_religion
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picture & info - http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
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