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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. The outcome resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
It was Hitler's only complete book, and the work became the bible of National Socialism. ays out the ideological program Hitler established for the German revolution, by identifying the Jews and "Bolsheviks" as racially and ideologically inferior and threatening, and "Aryans" and National Socialists as racially superior and politically progressive. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
The first five-year plan was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invaded the Chinese Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. -
Holodomor
The Holodomor was the mass killing of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933. The Holodomor happened because it was believed that 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
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. The purpose of him becoming Chancellor was because of fear that Hitler would take the power but came to believe he could control him and appointed him chancellor in 1933, with three other Nazis in the Cabinet. -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
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Nuremburg Laws enacted
The Nazis enacted the Nuremberg Laws because they wanted to put their ideas about race into law. The Reich Citizenship Law and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression that was fought between Italy and Ethiopia.The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century -
The Great Purge and gulags
The Great Purge was Joseph Stalin's campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union. The purpose of this was too Elimination of political opponents, consolidation of power, fear of counterrevolution, fear of party infiltration -
Spanish civil war
The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. The main cause of the Spanish Civil War was the failure of Spanish democracy. This was because there was a refusal by the Spanish parties and groups to compromise and respect democratic norms. -
The Rape of Nanking
The rape of Nanjing was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops. The purpose of it was to break the spirits of the Chinese resistance. -
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 paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war, and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.
Poles provided significant contributions to the Allied effort throughout the war, fighting on land, sea, and air. ... The Polish forces as a whole may be considered to have been the 4th largest Allied army in Europe, after the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor 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, Territory of Hawaii.Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he became the dictator of the Soviet Union. The rapid industrialization of Russia was Stalin's main goal.