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hitler becomes chancllor
http://school.eb.com.ezproxy.niles-hs.k12.il.us:2048/levels/high/article/274895
The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. -
treaty of versailles
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treaty of versailles
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/75152
peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and Associated Powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles -
The Weimar Republic
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The Weimar Republic
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/277696
The republic was proclaimed on November 8, 1918, by Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann in order to prevent a communist revolution. The forces of social revolution was defeated and the way was paved for the establishment of a democratic republic. -
start of soviet union
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During the period of its existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was by area the world’s largest country. It was also one of the most diverse, with more than 100 distinct nationalities living within its borders. The majority of the population, however, was made up of East Slavs -
Mussolini takes over
http://school.eb.com.ezproxy.niles-hs.k12.il.us:2048/levels/high/article/54467
Mussolini was hailed as a genius and a superman by public figures worldwide. His achievements were considered little less than miraculous. He had transformed and reinvigorated his divided and demoralized country he had carried out his social reforms and public works without losing the support of the industrialists and landowners -
Beer Hall Putsch,Mein Kampf
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/14106
, Adolf Hitler’s attempt to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic on Nov. 8–9, 1923. Hitler and his small Nazi Party associated themselves with General Erich Ludendorff, a right-wing German military leader of World War 1.Forcing their way into a right-wing political meeting in a beer hall in Munich on the evening of November 8, Hitler and his men obtained agreement that the leaders there should join in carrying the revolution. -
The great depression
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The great Depression
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/37849
the Great Depression caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of the world. Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering, especially in the United States, where the Great Depression represented the harshest adversity faced by Americans since the Civil War. -
sudetenland appeasement
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Chamberlain formulated a policy of accommodation with Germany and Italy. But Chamberlain was also the man who began British rearmament, pronounced appeasement a failure, and declared war upon Germany. -
Reichstag Fire
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/63085
burning of the Reichstag building in Berlin on the night of Feb. 27, 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and was to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to assume emergency powers -
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Rise of totalitarianism-facism-nazism-communism
http://school.eb.com.ezproxy.niles-hs.k12.il.us:2048/levels/high/article/73017
Totalitarianism is often distinguished from dictatorship, despotism, or tyranny by its supplanting of all political institutions with new ones and its sweeping away of all legal, social, and political traditions -
Nuremberg Laws
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forbade marriage or sexual relations between Jews and “citizens of German or kindred blood.” These measures were among the first of the racist Nazi laws that culminated in the Holocaust. -
Munich Conference
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/54283
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/46254
also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms. -
Invasion of poland
http://school.eb.com.ezproxy.niles-hs.k12.il.us:2048/levels/high/article/311390
the Nazis and the Soviets agreed to a division of Poland—Hitler’s next target. The German invasion of Poland finally provoked British and French retaliation, thus pushing Europe into World War II -
nazi/soviet non-aggression pact
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the two countries agreed not to attack each other, either independently or in conjunction with other powers not to support any third power that might attack the other party to the pact; to remain in consultation with each other upon questions touching their common interests not to join any group of powers directly or indirectly threatening one of the two parties to solve all differences between the two by negotiating -
stalin gains power
http://school.eb.com.ezproxy.niles-hs.k12.il.us:2048/levels/high/article/108469
for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power.
During the quarter of a century preceding his death, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin probably exercised greater political power than any other figure in history