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March on Rome
March on Rome, the insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/508871/March-on-Rome
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U.S. Stock Market Crash
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First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
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Creation of the Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. picture-http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/archive/nuremberg-race-laws-chart/
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Italy invades Ethiopia
The Italians had claimed Ethiopia as their territory. With economic conditions worsening at home, Mussolini needed to take actions that would distract the Italians people. In 1936, the Italians fought against poorly-armed Ethiopian troops in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia's capital). http://www.historycentral.com/Europe/ItalyInvadesEthiopia.html
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Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-reoccupies-the-rhineland
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Germany annexed Austria
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-annexes-austria
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Munich Conference
On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. Upon return to Britain, Chamberlain would declare that the meeting had achieved “peace in our time.” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-appeased-at-munich
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Kristallnacht
On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. picture -http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/learning_environments/kristallnacht.asp
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Nazi invasion of Poland
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Operation Barbarossa
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/52772/Operation-Barbarossa
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Creation of the United Nations
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Bataan Death March
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The Wannsee Conference and the “Final Solution”
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Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day
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Operation Valkyrie
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Discovery of Majdanek
The SS evacuated most of the prisoners to concentration camps further west during the spring of 1944. In late July 1944, as Soviet forces approached Lublin, the remaining camp staff hastily abandoned Majdanek, without fully dismantling the camp. Soviet troops first arrived at Majdanek during the night of July 22–23 and captured Lublin on July 24. Captured vir picture - http://www.timesrecordnews.com/lifestyle/no-headline-sarah_religion
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Beginning of the cold war
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japanese war crimes trial
