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Hitler
joined a struggling group called the national socialist German workers' party, "Nazi Party" -
Mussolini
established the Fascist party -
Mussolini
marched on Rome with thousands of his followers -
Soviet Union
Russia hopes for democracy gave way to civil war, resulting in the establishment of a communist state, officially called the Soviet Union -
Death
V.I. Lenin died -
Joseph Stalin
Takes control of the country -
U,S.
The united states signed the Kellogg- Briand pact -
soviet dictator
outlined the first of several "five-year plans" to direct the industrialzations -
Japan
moderate japanese officials, the militarists launched a surprise attack and seized control of the chinese province of Manchuria -
Germany
Some 6 million Germans were unemployed -
Nazis
had become the strongest political party in Germany -
Hitler
was appointed Chancellor (prime minister) -
Hitler
pulled Germany out of the Leauge -
Hitler
began a military build up in violation of the treaty of Versailles -
Neutrality Acts
Congress passed a series of neutrality acts(acts that allowed sales or loans to nations at war) -
Italian soildiers
tens of thousands of Italian soildiers stood ready to advance on Ethiopia -
Ethiopia
had fallen -
Rebelled
A group of Spanish army officers led by General Fransico Franco, rebelled against the Spanish republic -
Soviet Union
Had become the world's second-largest industrial power -
Japan
launched a new attack on China -
Hitler
met secretly with his top military advisers: he boldly declared that to grow and prosper Germany neede the land of its neighbors -
German
German troops marched into Auatria unopposed -
Stalin
had firmly established a totaltarian government that tried to exert complete control over its citozens -
Germany
Fascist Germany and communist Russia now commited never to attack eachother -
Germany
invades poland; used tanks, air force, bombs, etc. -
Stalin
sent his Soviet Army into Finland -
Franco
francos victory established him as Spains fascist dictator -
Hitler
handed French officers his terms of surrender -
German
approxiametly 2,000 German planes range over Britian every night for two solid months, bombers pounded london -
KAF
shot down over 185 german planes; at the same time, they lost only 26 aircraft -
Germans
the germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast
