dictators come to power

  • Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
    He won by using propaganda to help win an election and best his political rivals.
    And he led a group that marched on several cities to overthrow their governments.
  • Mussolini’s March on Rome

    Mussolini’s March on Rome
    This event marked the beginning of facist rule
  • Hitler writes Mein Kampf

    Hitler writes Mein Kampf
    This was his autobiographical book that he made when he was starting to become the nazi party leader
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
    They invaded them so they could get raw materials
  • Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
    This is when Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi Party assumed control
  • On this date, Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi Party assumed control

    On this date, Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi Party assumed control
    Adolf Hitler greets a crowd of enthusiastic Germans from a window in the Chancellery building
  • Night of the Long Knives in Germany

    Night of the Long Knives in Germany
    was a purge in which Adolf Hitler and the regime of Nazi Germany targeted members of the Sturmabteilung the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party
  • The Great Purge begins

    The Great Purge begins
    this was a purge in the soviet Union that was started to Elimination of political opponents
  • The Rape of Nanking

    The Rape of Nanking
    in 1937 the japanese Army began its take over of the capital of the Republic of china. japanese troops killed remnant Chinese soldiers and murdered Chinese civilians raped Chinese women and stole chinese property
  • Spanish civil war

    Spanish civil war
    this was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.