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  • Ending of World War 1

    Ending of World War 1
    Germans agreed to cease fire on this day wich later became known as Armistice Day.
  • Fascist Party Established

    Fascist Party Established
    was an Italian party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism
  • Mussolini takes over italy

    Mussolini takes over italy
    Mussolini became the 40th Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce by 1925. After 1936, his official title was "His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Founder of the Empire".[2] Mussolini also created and held the supreme military rank of First Marshal of the Empire along with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, which gave him and the King joint supreme control over the military of Italy.
  • USSR Establisment

    USSR Establisment
    The Soviet Union was founded in December 1922 when the Russian SFSR, which formed during the Russian Revolution of 1917
  • Death of

    Death of
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system. And at this point anmd time Joesph Stalin took control of the USSR and 8-13 million Russians died.
  • US and 61 other contries sign Kellogg-Briand Pact

    US and 61 other contries sign Kellogg-Briand Pact
    The Kellogg–Briand Pact (also called the Pact of Paris, formal name: General Treaty for the Renunciation of War) was signed on August 27, 1928 by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other countries. The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.[1] It made no provisions for sanctions. The pact was the result of a determined American effort to avoid involvement
  • Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
    The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Hitler joins Nazi party

    Hitler joins Nazi party
    Adolf Hilter Joins Nazi party and becomes ruler
  • Roosevelt takes office

    Roosevelt takes office
    Roosevelt launched major legislation and a profusion of executive orders that gave form to the New Deal—a complex, interlocking set of programs designed to produce relief (especially government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (of the economy), and reform (through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation). The economy improved rapidly from 1933 to 1937, but then went into a deep recession. The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Co
  • US begins passing Neutrality

    US begins passing Neutrality
    Roosevelt's State Department had lobbied for embargo provisions that would allow the President to impose sanctions selectively. This was rejected by Congress. The 1935 act, signed on August 31, 1935, imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war.