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The Pact of Steel was
signed between Hitler and Mussolini on 22nd May 1939. -
Hitler commanded the invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939, which
actually involved the outbreak of WWII -
On
29th September 1938 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France reached the
Munich Agreement, where Germany annexed the Sudetes -
In November 1938 a Jew murdered a German diplomat in Paris.
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Mussolini conquered and annexed Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1936.
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Changes within Germany. Some areas of Germany had been occupied or controlled
by foreign powers after the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler could not tolerate this and began
some campaigns to re-take over those German regions(Saarland 1935, Rhineland
1936) -
On the 30th
June 1934, Hitler ordered to arrest Röhm and others. Several hundred people were killed.
This was called the Night of the Long Knives. Röhm was shot the next day. When Hindenburg
died, Hitler became Chancellor, President and Commander-in chief of the army. He was called
Der Führer (the leader). Democracy was dead. -
In January 1933 Hitler decided to call for another election (March 1933) hoping to make the
Nazis stronger in the Reichstag (Parliament) -
The Depression hit Germany deeply. By 1932 conditions were serious in Germany. Over five
million people were unemployed and the country was desperate for a strong government.
President Hindenburg called an election (April 1932) but did not get the majority -
Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty in 1929
with the Pope Pius XI: Italy acknowledged the independence of the Vatican as a
sovereign state. -
Germany joined
the League of Nations (1926) and became one of the permanent members of the Council. -
In 1924, fascist got the power
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In 1923 Germany suffered a hyperinflation.
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When socialists called
for a general strike in 1922, Mussolini's men terrorised them and controlled the situation. That
made him very popular -
on 27th and 28th
October 1922 Mussolini marched on Rome
with his 30,000 Blackshirts in order to
seize the power -
In 1919, Communists tried to take over Berlin in the Spartacist Revolt, but they were
defeated.
