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Mussolini's March On Rome
This was a march led by Mussolini and his men that was meant to symbolize the governments fall and his fascist rule rising. -
Stalin Takes Power
Stalin started out by robbing banks to fund the Bolshevik party, and after some time of causing a ruckus he was exiled to Serbia. In 1912 Lenin appointed him to a position of power in the Bolshevik party and all started to snowball from there. When Lenin died in 1924 he trumped all competition and took control of the company. -
Hitler Writes Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote his book "Mein Kampf" in prison, and it basically highlighted what all he planned to do with Germany for his take over. -
Stalin Enacts His First 5 Year Plan
Stalin enacted these plans in hopes of making the USSR a stronger empire. This plan was mostly there to increase and strengthen industrialization and collectivize agriculture. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
The main reason why Japan invaded Manchuria was for raw resources because Japan is a volcanic island, and the resources it offers could be subpar to what the growing country needed. -
Holodomor
The case of holodomor was when Stalin starved out a whole area of people. He did this because he was afraid that they would try to gain independence as the people of the area were starting to cause upheaval in hopes of gaining independence for Ukraine. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Hitler was appointed the Chancellor of Germany on this date. This officially gave him the necessary power that he needed to enact his plans of horror in the country. -
Night Of Long Knives
This was a night in which all opposing people of power in the Nazi party were killed. This was in attempt to strengthen Hitler's position and to ensure that he would rise to power. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Italy just felt like they were the only European country who didn't have a colony in Africa, so they thought to invade Ethiopia. They largely did it as a power display and to boost national pride. -
The Great Purge & Gulags
The great purge was a campaign lead by Stalin where anybody who was deemed an enemy to his party was locked away or killed. Any political opponents, people who opposed Stalin, and even some scientists, anyone who could cause trouble were sent to gulags and held prisoner or killed so that Stalin could rise to power. This lasted primarily between 1936 and 1938. -
Spanish Civil War
Due to labor and political unrest a schism occurred in the country. People soon found themselves proudly belonging to either the nationalist or republican parties, and this broke into a civil war over how the country should be governed. The war was the bloodiest war in Europe after WW1 before WW2 and 200,000 died in the war. The fighting lasted from July 1936 to April 1939 -
Rape of Nanjing
Japan wanted to expand and gain resources, so they invaded China. They pillaged and raped and killed all in hopes of destroying the Chinese spirit and to kill any and all Chinese officers that they happened across. This was really just killing for sport at some point. -
Kristallnacht
The night of broken glass was a night in which Nazi officials and soldiers destroyed hundreds if not thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses. This was ll in attempt to ring down Jewish moral and teach the general public a lesson -that Jews were to be hated and discouraged, which made further efforts to exterminate them easier. -
Nuremberg Laws Enacted
The Nuremberg laws in Nazi Germany were a set of laws formally denouncing Jews in the country. The laws restricted and stripped almost all their rights, which allowed for the final solution to take place easier. -
Nazi Germany Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland in hopes for more land and power, and it just caused them the most trouble it could have because it started world war II. With the invasion, Poland's allies and Germany's allies were thrown into the mix,and next thing you know it's a full blown war. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because they needed to ensure that they could expand to get their needed resources from the dutch islands (AKA Indonesia area), and they were afraid the U.S would get in the way. They attacked pearl harbor because it was the closest U.S base to where they were, but they didn't realize they would be awakening a sleeping giant.