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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. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. -
Japan invades Manchuria
It began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
A bloody purge that took place with his own member's of his party. -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
The Nuremberg Race Laws consisted of two pieces of legislation: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century -
The Great Purge and gulags
It 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 -
Spanish civil war
It was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic -
The Rape of Nanking
Rape of Nanjing was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu