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Dictators Come to Power Timeline

  • Mussolini coupe

    Mussolini coupe
    Successful fascist coup d'état Mussolini created a new administration.
  • Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
    On January 21, 1924, Lenin passed away. Stalin received the privilege of planning his burial. Stalin was recognized as Lenin's successor as the head of the Soviet Union's ruling Communist Party after Lenin passed away.
  • Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
    Hitler comes out of jail after only serving 9 months he left way earlier than expected and soon after he became chancellor of germany leading the jacobin club into the nazis
  • Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf
    Mein Kampf was a journal for hitler he would write ideas and his life struggles after he was thrown in jail for a protest of sorts this is also where he wrote about the idea of a master race
  • Five year plan

    Five year plan
    To start a quick and widespread industrialisation across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the first five-year plan was developed. Harry Byers' first trip to the Soviet Union took place during the second year of the plan, which started on October 1st, 1928.
  • Invasion of manchuria

    Invasion of manchuria
    Invading Manchuria in 1931, Japan was looking for raw resources to feed its expanding factories. By 1937, Japan had taken over a sizable portion of China, and atrocities against the Chinese had become routine.
  • holodomor

    holodomor
    The starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the years 1932–1933 as a result of Soviet policy is known as the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian).
  • Night of the long knives

    Night of the long knives
    For the German administration, the Night of the Long Knives marked a turning point. In his speech to the Reichstag on July 13th, Hitler referred to it as cementing his position as the chief administrator of justice for the German people.
  • numberg laws

    numberg laws
    The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor outlawed the union of Jews and non-Jewish Germans, made it illegal for them to engage in sexual activity together, and forbade Jews from hiring German women under the age of 45 as maids.
  • italian invasion of ethiopia

    italian invasion of ethiopia
    Italy and Ethiopia engaged in an aggressive conflict between October 1935 and February 1937 known as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War or Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
  • the great purge

    the great purge
    The Soviet Union had a purge from 1936 to 1938 known as The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian: оло теpрор). consolidation of power through the elimination of political rivals. It was a widespread "repression" of the kulaks, or richer peasants. Minority ethnic groups were slaughtered.
  • Spanish civil war

    Spanish civil war
    Due to the nation's political, economic, and social atmosphere, the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, took place amid internal unrest and conflict. Spain had nearly 25 million people living there at the time, 30% of them were illiterate, and there were significant socioeconomic differences.
  • Anti-comitern

    Anti-comitern
    Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, pledging their cooperation to halt the development of Communism throughout the world.
  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking
    Japanese General Matsui Iwane gave the order to demolish Nanking in an effort to shatter the spirit of Chinese resistance. A large portion of the city was set on fire, and Japanese forces began committing crimes against residents. In what became known as the "Rape of Nanking," the Japanese slaughtered an estimated 150,000 male "war prisoners," murdered 50,000 more male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were later maimed or killed.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    The Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary organization carried out the pogrom against Jews known as Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass or the November pogrom