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1917 Bolshevik Takeover
it was also know as the Great October Socialist Revolution. t took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd.The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917. -
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Russian Civil War Begins
A multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces. Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies. The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919. -
Hitler Joins NSDAP
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. -
March on Rome
The 1922 March on Rome was to establish Mussolini and the Fascist Party he led, as the most important political party in Italy.
In November 1921, the fascist parties of Italy joined forces to create the Fascist Party. It became an official political party. -
Mein Kampf
In 1923 Adolf Hitler was arrested for attempting to overthrow the government in Munich. His National Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazi party) was still relatively small, and he used his trial to attract national attention. In due course he was convicted and sentenced to prison; while there he wrote Mein Kampf outlining his political ideas. Mein Kampf was not taken seriously at first, but it includes many of the ideas the Nazis put in practice in the 1930s and 1940s. -
Beer Hall Putsch
On November 8th and 9th1923, Hitler used the anger felt against the Berlin government in Bavaria to attempt an overthrow of the regional government in Munich in prelude to the take-over of the national government. This incident is generally known as the Beer Hall Putsch. -
Lenin's Death
Baltimore A doctor says stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, debunking a popular theory that a sexually-transmitted disease debilitated the former Soviet Union leader. -
Collectivization of Agriculture
The Soviet Union introduced collective farming in its constituent republics between 1927 and 1933. The Baltic states and most of the Central and East European countries adopted collective farming after World War II, with the accession of communist regimes to power. -
Creation of 5 Year Plans
The initial five-year plans were created to serve in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union, and thus placed a major focus on heavy industry. The first one was accepted in 1928, for the period from 1929 to 1933, and completed one year early. The last Five-Year Plan was for the period from 1991 to 1995 and was not completed, as the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. -
Invasion of Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, which caused many blames by the League of Nations. By 1931, Japan had invested vast sums of money into the economy of Manchuria, which was effectively controlled by the South Manchuria Railway Company. -
"Great Purges"
In the summer of 1932 Joseph Stalin became aware that opposition to his policies were growing. Some party members were publicly criticizing Stalin and calling for the readmission of Leon Trotsky to the party. When the issue was discussed at the Politburo, Stalin demanded that the critics should be arrested and executed. Sergey Kirov, who up to this time had been a staunch Stalinist, argued against this policy. When the vote was taken, the majority of the Politburo supported Kirov against Stalin. -
Nazi Wins Majority In Election
Despite massive violence and intimidation, the Nazis won 43.9% of the vote, rather than the majority that he had expected. -
Greates Fascist Party
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi party) is one of the most infamous political systems in the history of the earth, made famous by their severe acts of cruelty and completely inhuman behavior. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Hitler became obsessed with German nationalism from a young age. Hitler expressed loyalty only to Germany, despising the declining Habsburg Monarchy and its rule over an ethnically-variegated empire. -
Re-Militariezes Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and was the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. -
Invasion of Ethiopia
The Second Italo–Abyssinian War was a brief colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. -
"Rape of Nanjing"
The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. -
Anschluss (Annexation of Austria)
On March 12 1938, Austria was merged into Nazi Germany. During this time Germany had put much pressure on Austria to perform Anschluss as well as many inside supporters for the “Heim ins Reich” movement both Nazi’s and non-Nazi’s. -
Munich Comterence
The Munich Agreement was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans -
Creation of Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis
Rome (Italy), Berlin (Germany) and Tokyo (Japan) were the capitals of the three main Axis powers in the Second World War.The Axis was the name given to the opponents of the Allies, Great Britain and it's Empire countries (Canada, Australia and many others), many countries which had been invaded, and after Pearl Harbor the USA -
Capture of Sudentenland
On April 1, Germany directly annexed the Sudetenland and established the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia as a Reich Protectorate. Hungary annexed Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine. In the aftermath of the invasion, a collective of underground resistance organizations formed the Czech Underground State within the territory of the former Czechoslovak state. -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
On August 23, 1939, four days after the economic agreement was signed and a little over a week before the beginning of World War II, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
