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The march on Rome
The march on Rome was the plan for Mussolini to seize power. Mussolini had intended to march armed fascist squads into Rome and take key points for the king to surrender. The king surrendered without a fight but Mussolini was constitutionally added to the government. he later seized total power. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Hitler was in Landsburg prison after the beer hall putsch. He had a lot of free time and began writing down his philosophy and his plan for the third Reich in a book titled Mein Kampf. -
Stalin´s five year plan.
The idea of the five-year plan was to collectivize agriculture and turn the soviet union into an industrial powerhouse. -
Stalin becomes dictator
When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 there was a power vacuum that had to be filled and Stalin was there to fill it. -
japan invades manchuria
In 1931 japan invades Chinese-controlled Manchuria and by 1932 they are forced to surrender. This cemented japans status as an empire -
Holodomor
Holodomor was a famine in Soviet Ukraine caused by a severe drought, food requisition programs, and a sudden attempt to collectivize farms. -
Hitler appointed chancellor
Hitler had been spreading his ideology for a while by now and ran off the popular issue of the Treaty of Versailles. The Nazis controlled most of the government and Hitler was finally elected in his second election. -
Night of the long knifes
Hitler believed the main army was a threat to his power and ordered the ss to kill many officials. This was part of his plan to have complete control over the government -
Nuremberg laws enacted
The Nuremberg laws were general laws enacted in 1935 to deprive Jews of rights. They could no longer vote, hold public office, marry a non jew, and couldn't run any businesses. -
Invasion of Eithiopia
In 1935 Italy went against the wishes of the league of nations and invaded the independent country of Ethiopia. Italy had already tried in 1890 so were more determined this time. They supported the Ethiopian rebels with troops and weapons with the intent to conquer at the end. -
The great purge
The great purge is a campaign led by Stalin to eliminate all ¨dissenters¨ to the communist party. Over 750,000 people were executed and over a million others were sent to gulags (forced labor camps). -
Spanish Civil War
In 1936 there was a failed attempt at a coup and the once democratic country of Spain was being fought over by fascists supported by Germany and socialists supported by the USSR. Countries like America sent in troops to try and preserve democracy but democracy was long dead. -
Rape of Nanking
In the Sino-Japanese war, Japanese forces captured the capital of China (Nanking), and to break the Chinese resistance the city was burned and the men were killed and the woman was raped and mutilated. -
Kristallnacht.
Kristallnacht was the day Germany really came down on the jews. Synagogues were torched, Jews were killed and sent to concentration camps. Germany has been mostly nonviolent towards jews before. but they had now let their true intentions be clear. -
Germany invades Poland
In 1939 german forces under the control of Adolf Hitler attack Poland in an attempt to gain the land back they lost in the treaty of Versailles. They had attacked with artillery, aircraft, and an overwhelming amount of troops and tanks. -
Pearl Harbor
In 1941 on an American navy base in Hawaii, the Japanese launched a sneak attack despite not even being at war and thousands of Americans died, many of them not even soldiers.
This attack was an attempt to weaken America in the pacific so japan could take control of some more territory, they feared becoming a third-rate country.