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In 1940, the Jews were moved into ghettos; like Warsaw (the biggest one) where a lot of people died from starvation and disease (500,000 people).
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The Pact of Steel was signed between Hitler and Mussolini on 22nd May 1939.
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Albania and Somalia were occupied in 1939.
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Hitler commanded the invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939, which actually involved the outbreak of WWII.
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He wanted Austria to be a part of his Reich and promoted the so-called Anschluss. (1938).
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In November 1938 a Jew murdered a German diplomat in Paris.
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Mussolini conquered and annexed Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
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The Rome-Berlin Axis was created on 1st November 1936
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Hitler could not tolerate this and began some campaigns to re-take those German regions(Saarland 1935, Rhineland 1936).
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Fascist campaing 1934.
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In January 1933 Hitler decided to call for another election (March 1933) hoping to make the Nazis stronger in the Reichstag (Parliament)
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A fire broke out in the Reichstag (February, 1933) building, and Hitler blamed the communists. He used emergency decrees against terrorists, so communists were arrested and soon he declared the Communist party illegal.
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By 1932 living conditions were serious in Germany.
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President Hindenburg called an election (April 1932) but did not get the majority.
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The new government still could not govern properly, and after the new elections (November 1932) Hindenburg offered Hitler the post of Chancellor (head of government).
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Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty in 1929 with the Pope Pius XI: Italy acknowledged the independence of the Vatican as a sovereign state.
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He died in October 1929, just before the disaster of the Wall Street Crash. His plans would only work with some help from the USA.
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Germany joined the League of Nations (1926) and became one of the permanent members of the Council.
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He had the support of the SS (1925), a personal force for Hitler and the leading Nazis
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He changed the election system and in the next elections (1924) fascists got the power.
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In 1923 Germany suffered a hyperinflation.
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In 1923 there was a new chancellor, called Stresemann, and Germany was starting to recover.
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General strike
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In the elections (1919 and 1921) he didn't get many votes .
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After the Great War a republic was set up in February 1919
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In 1919, Communists tried to take over Berlin in the Spartacist Revolt, but they were defeated.
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On the 30th June 1934, Hitler ordered to arrest Röhm and others. Several hundred people were killed
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On 29th September 1938 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France reached the Munich Agreement, where Germany annexed the Sudetes
