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Rise of Totalitarianism
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Mussolini takes over
Mussolini started his time in power by buying support from both the working class and the industrial bosses. I think this evemt is historically significant because it had changed Italy's constitution and brought about many changes in Italy. -
Beer Hall, Putsch, Mein Kampf
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Stalin gains power
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
His plan embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. He began immediately, ordering a rapid expansion of the state police, the Gestapo, and putting Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, composed entirely of Nazis and dedicated to stamping out whatever opposition to his party might arise. -
Reichstag Fire
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Nuremburg Laws
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Munich Conference
This conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. On this night a Czech government statement agreed to cede Czech terrioty where 50 per cent or more of the population were German, but protested against the demand for a plebiscite in areas without a German majority. This event is historically significant, because Munich Hitler gained what he had wanted, which was the domination of Central Europe. -
Sudetenland/Appease
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Nazi- Soviet Non- Agression
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two cuntries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. Joseph Stalin the Soviet leader viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to bild up the Soviet military. Adolf Hitler the German chancellor had used this pact ro make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed.
