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Wolrd War I
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Bolshevik Revolution
Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days, involving mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) the forces of the capital's garrison sided with the revolutionaries. Three days later Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire. The Russian Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Council of Ministers of Russia. -
Founding of the NSDAP in Germany
Creation of the German Workers' Party in january of 1919 and on the 24 February 1920, the German Workers’ Party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), more commonly referred to as the Nazi Party -
Hitler joins the NSDAP
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Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party)
This Nazi party was made up of manual laborers, former soldiers, adventurers, and misfits. They were characterized by their violent nationalism, anti-Semitism, and opposition to democratic government. They organized a paramilitary force called the SA to help intimidate those who they saw as enemies. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler and Nazis attemped to take over the government by kidnapping government officials in a Munich Beer Hall and then marching on Berlin but it failed miserably. -
Release of "Mein Kampf"
The book Hitler wrote in prison -
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Staline's concept of "Socialism in one country"
Overcoming agricultural and industrial problems by the Soviet Union's own efforts and making its survival an absolute priority -
Death of Lenin
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Hitler Youth Formed
The Hitler Youth was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany, indoctrining the young german population into the nazi ideologies. -
Jews' obligation to carry identity card indicating their Jewish heritage
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Stalin's five year plan
When Stalin was in power, he set out to make the Soviet Union into a modern industrial power. In 1928, Stalin set out to propose the first of the several "five year plans" which was aimed at building heavy industry, imporving transportation, and increasing farm output. Stalin brought all economic activity under government control. The Soviet Union developed a command economy, in which government officials made made all basic economic decisions. The government owned all businesses. -
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Great Depression
The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy that lasted more than a decade, beginning in 1929 and ending during World War II in 1941. -
First Gulag in the USSR
The gulags were a system of labour camps maintained in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died as it was a combinaison of forced labour, extreme famine and poor life conditions. -
USSR huge strikes
The regime was rocked by a wave of workers' strikes and demonstrations starting in the spring of 1932 because of the collective famine especially in Ukraine. -
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Ukrainian famine
Over four million people starved to death between the fall of 1932 and the summer of 1933 in Ukraine and the Kuban, an administrative unit of the Russian Republic in the northern Caucasus populated largely by Ukrainians. -
Burning of the Reichstag
Although no one knows exactly who committed the arson, the Reichstag (Parliament building) fire in February 1933, provided Hitler with a pretext to persecute communist enemies and limit civil rights in order to protect the Germans from their enemies. He used SA to intimidate parliamentarians into voting in favor of a bill that would allow him to rule by decree, making him a dictator. -
First concentration camp
The first of many concentration was created and the official police called the "Gestapo" was in charge of arresting opposent to the regime and send them to the camps. -
Hitler merges the post of Chancelor and President
He names himself President and Chacelor, giving himself a lot of power and violating the laws. -
Hitler is elected Chancelor of Germany
Hitler spread his ideas of anti-Semitism and his nationalistic idea of making Germany a strictly German community. To make Hitler look more powerful, the Nazis adopted the swastika as the symbol of their party. Hitler had promised to create order in the streets of Germany and to end the economic crises in Germany. On January 30, 1933 Hitler was elected chancellor. -
Hitler's Enabling Act
This law is the final step to the destruction of the Weimar Constitution: it simply decides the abrogation of the separation of powers and the self-affirmation of the government in legislative matters, giving the Nazi party all the powers. -
The Knight of the Long Knives
One night, Hitler send his troups to execute the leaders of the SA without trial, therefore encouraging the next leaders of the SA to support his party and his ideas. -
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Third Reich
The Third Reich, meaning "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich,[l] ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe. -
The Great Purge in the USSR
Stalin's power was absolute, however, he had fears that rival party leaders were plotting against him. In 1934, he launched the "Great Purge." In this reign of terror, Stalin's secret police cracked down on Old Bolsheviks. He targeted army heroes, industrial managers, writers, and ordinary citizens. They were charges with crimes such as counterrevolutionary plots and failure to meet production goals. He staged public "show trials" in Moscow. Some were executed or sent to labor camps (gulags). -
Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany
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Creation of Lebensborn (factories of Aryan Babies)
Lebensborn (literally: "Fount of Life") was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics -
First wave of action against Jews in Germnay: Disenfranchisement
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German's Five Years Plan
The goal of this Five Year Plan launched by Hitler in 1936 was to make Germany self-sufficient in coal, iron, steel, and other basic raw materials -
Olympics in Munich
The Berlin Olympics had been awarded to Germany before the Nazis came to power, but in August 1936 they provided a perfect opportunity for the Nazis to showcase Hitler's Third Reich to the 49 nations of the world competing for Olympic gold. -
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Civil War in Spain
The war opposed the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and the opposing Nationalists were led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. -
Second wave of action against the Jews in Germany: Banned from schools/sports...
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The Munich Conference
Hitle had already annexed Austria the year before. Now he wanted to also take the "Sudetenland" region of Czechslovakia and make the territory a part of Germany. He claimed that because there were German speaking inhabitants Germany should have the territory. At the Munich Conf. Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy (without Czechslovakia). An agreement was reached that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland. -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and murdered close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” or the “Night of Broken Glass”), some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
Publicly, this agreement stated that the two countries - Germany and the Soviet Union - would not attack each other. If there were ever a problem between the two countries, it was to be handled amicably. The pact was supposed to last for ten years; it lasted for less than two because Hitler broke it. -
Founding of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)
The Weiße Rose were a group of german resistants that acted through the distribution of tracts denouncing the war and the violence of the government in the streets of Munich. It was a small group and they were all arrested by the Gestapo in february of 1943 and their leaders were all exeuted before the end of the year.