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Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and becomes prime minister of Italy in 1922. -
Stalin Comes To Power
In 1912, in exile in Switzerland, Lenin appointed Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik party. -
The Holocaust
This was a genocide in which some six million European Jews by Adolf Hitlers Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with Germany. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, after a series of parliamentary elections. -
Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland and within weeks the Polish Army was defeated, and this was against the Treaty of Versailles, therefore WWII broke out. -
Lend Lease Act Passed
This act was proposed in late 1940, and it was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WWII.
