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Japan invades Manchuria
Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria. -
Mussolini’s March on Rome -outcome
It marked the first fascist takeover of power in the world, set in place a regime which would govern for 20 years, and inspired other far-right movements. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
He wrote it in prison, where he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted. It was the most sold nazi text. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
Was created in order to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. -
Holodomor
This was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions in order to suppress Ukrainians. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
Hindenburg formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor. -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders. -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
Race Laws that made Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbors. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
Launched a war that would drive Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie into exile, pave the way for Italian occupation, and test the capacity and will of the League of Nations to check the aggression of expansionist states. -
Spanish civil war
Spain was governed by Franco, whom Hitler had supported during the Spanish Civil War which kept him from invading during the Spanish civil war. -
The Rape of Nanking
This was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic. -
The Great Purge and gulags
After thepurge over a million survivors were sent to forced labor camps, known as Gulags. -
Kristallnacht
Also known as Night of Broken Glassthis was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
Germany immediately overpowered Polanded with advanced technology for the time. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the US against the naval base at Pearl Harbor.