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Mussolini’s March on Rome
The 1922 March on Rome was to establish Mussolini and the Fascist Party he led, as the most important political party in Italy. It soon resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf shows Hitler's personal grievances and his ambitions for creating a New Order. Hitler also wrote that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated text which purported to expose the Jewish plot to control the world, was an authentic document. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
This was made in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union. The first Five-Year Plan, implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931, Japanese militarists hoped to build an empire and gain resources. -
Holodomor
The Holodomor 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. Soviet police contain descriptions of the immense suffering and despair of Ukrainian farmers, including instances of lawlessness, theft, lynching, and even cannibalism. This Famine, the Holodomor, resulted in widespread deaths and mass graves dug across the countryside. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
As the Nazi Party was now the largest party in the Reichstag, it was entitled to select the President. Energised by the success, Hitler asked to be made chancellor. -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
The pupose was that it provided a legal grounding for the Nazis, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extrajudicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point for the German government. -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
On September 15, 1935, the Nazi regime announced two new laws:
The Reich Citizenship Law
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
These laws informally became known as the Nuremberg Laws or Nuremberg Race Laws. This is because they were first announced at a Nazi Party rally held in the German city of Nuremberg. -
Italian invasion of 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 (1896), which saved Ethiopia from Italian colonisation and forced the country's Emperor, Haile Selassie, into exile. -
The Great Purge and gulags
The Great Purge, was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat, The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps established during Joseph Stalin's long reign as dictator of the Soviet Union. -
Spanish civil war
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
An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, at that time the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A breakdown in discipline, caused by supply shortages, led Japanese troops to engage in atrocities. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht , 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 on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland.
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
Serving in the Russian Civil War before overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922, Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's death in 1924. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's dogma. By 1941, he had absolute control over the party and government. -
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, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.