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Mussolini's march on Rome
Benito Mussolini was a Fascist dictator that assumed his control over Italy when marched on it's capital, Rome. This marked the fall of parliamentary regimes in Italy. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
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Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote a book describes his troubles and ideals of Nazism, an extremely nationalistic version of Socialism. -
First Five Year Plan
To achieve economic goals, Stalin enforce a strict set of rules to optimize industrialisation. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
The land that Japan sought to control was rich in materials such as oil, rubber, and lumber, which were scarce back home. -
Holodomor
A famine occurred in the Soviet Union that took the.lives of 3.9 million citizens. This was caused by the collectivization, implemented by Stalin, that led to a drop in production. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
HIndenbrug appoints Hitler as chancellor of Germany. -
Night of Long Knives
In fear of the Nazi's fellow leaders becoming too powerful, Hitler ordered the SS to murder all of them, including Ernst Rohm, a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung. -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
The Nuremburg Laws were a set of rules that ethnically targeted the Jews and lead to the massive Anti-Semitism of the Nazi Party. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
Mussolini want to build Italian prestige by invading Ethiopia, a country struggling to stay afloat. After occupying the land for 5 years, Italy finally realized that these efforts proved futile when it came to nationalistic support and they evacuated the land. -
The Rape of Nanking
The mass murder of 200,000 Chinese citizens by the invading Japanese after the Second Sino-Japanese war. This massacre lasted a total of six weeks. -
Kristallnacht
On this night, the Nazis began terrorizing the Jews and destroyed business' and blamed the damages on the Jewish population. This was the breaking point for many, revolts soon followed. -
The Great Purge and Gulags
Joseph Stalin began to push for optimal industrialization by shorting food production and killing 1.2 million citizens. Majority of those who survived, were thrown into labor camps, or Gulags, to carryout work for the government, especially construction. -
Spanish Civil War
The failure of a Spanish Democracy led to an uprising that left more than 200,000 Spaniards dead. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
Following a staged attack from the "Polish", Nazi's swarmed into Poland and began prosecuting Jews. Warsaw, Poland, was a centralized gathering of the Jewish population, meaning this was were most atrocities were witnessed. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the U.S. in an Air Raid on Hawaii's naval base at Pearl Harbor. 2,043 total American lives were lost in this tragedy. This event ultimately catapulted the United States into WWII.