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Stalin Becomes dictator of USSR
Once Stalin gained power he enforced his power through several methods, including fear, cult of personality, education and youth groups, propaganda, purges and force and compulsion. -
Mussolini's March on Rome
The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. In the end it resulted in the PNF ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
It is a autobiography manifeto by Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler. The work descibes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
1st "five year plan" in USSR
It was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialisation across the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics. The plan was already in it's second year when Harry Byers first set foot in the Soviet Union. -
Japan invades Manchuria
They invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the league of Nations. Japan had a highly developed industry, but the land was scarce of natural resources. Japan turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber, and lumber in order to make up for the lack of resources in Japan. -
Holodomor
The famine was cause by a combination of severe drought, chaotic implementation of forced collectivisation of farms, and the food requisition program carried out by the Soviet authorities. -
Hitler appointed chancllor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April of 1945. -
"Night of the Long Knives" in Germany
The purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization leaders, including Ernst Rohm. -
Nuremberg Laws Enacted
The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood" -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
In a response to Ethiopian appeals, the League of Nations condemned the Italian Invasion and voted to impose economic sanctions on the aggressor, The sanctions remained ineffective because of general lack of support. -
The Great Purge of Gulags
The Great Purge also known as the Great Terror. Was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. Although estimates vary most experts believe at least 750,000 people were executed during the Great Purge, -
Spanish Civil War
A military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control over the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. -
The Rape of Nanking
The Japanese butchared an estimaned 150,000 male "war prisoners" massacared an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process. -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues vandalised Jewish homes, schools, and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnact also called the "Night of broken Glass" some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and set to Nazi concentration camps. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
The Nazis justified the invasion by suggesting that Poland had been planning to invade Germany, and with false reports that poles were persecuting ethnic Germans. The Soviet Union joined forces with Germany and invaded Poland. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military action in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.