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Mussolini March
Blackshirts marched in Rome, while Mussolini formed his government. Mussolini's Blackshirts conquered strategic points across the country and gathered outside Rome. -
Joseph Stalin
Born on December 6 1878 Joseph Stalin held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He also put the Soviet Union on a course of crash collectivization and industrialization. -
Hitler writes the Mein Kampf
A book writen by Hitler explaing the betrayal of Germany’s collapse in 1918 and also expresses Hitler’s racist ideology, identifying the Aryan as the “genius” race and the Jew as the parasite and declares the need for Germans to seek living space. -
The 1st Five Year Plan in the USSR
The development of heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods in the USSR. Stalin's purpose was because he wanted to to speed up the process of industrialisation in the Soviet Union -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
German President Paul Von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan invaded China because of an explosion destroyed a section of railway track near the city of Mukden -
The Holomodor
It was the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies ran by Joseph Stalin. -
Night of the Long Knives in Germany
Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders. -
Nuremburg Laws
The Nazis enacted the Nuremberg Laws because they wanted to put their ideas about race into law. The Nazis believed in the Aryan race was above everyone else. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
The Italians committed lots of atrocities on the independent state. Poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps were all put in Ethiopia. -
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Military revolted against its own country against democracy and revolted against the Republican government of Spain. -
The Great Purge and Gulags
The purge was an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenge from potential opposition groups -
The Rape of Nanking
The mass killing and the ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after taking over Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and murdered around 100 Jews. -
Nazi Germany Invades Poland
The Nazis and Hitler had attacked Poland for the Germans to live there. -
Japan Bombs the Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled and destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes.