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MUSSOLINI
Entered Parliament after having been defeated in 1919 -
MUSSOLINI
Became premier of Italy -
STALIN
Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party -
HITLER
He is given a derisory five-month prison sentence. -
HITLER
He is released from jail, where he wrote the beginning of "Mein Kampf." -
HITLER
Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf," a ranting exploration of what passes as his ideology. -
MUSSOLINI
Mussolini declared Italy a fascist dictatorship and took control over society, politics, and economics, as well as the military. -
STALIN
At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky. -
STALIN
Beginning of first Five Year Plan -
STALIN
After the death of the first Communist dictator in the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, there was a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin won out and immediately set out to diminish any struggle for power. He further abolished all opposition and sent political prisoners to “re-education” camps. By 1928 Stalin was undoubtedly the leader of the Soviet Union -
HITLER
Defeated von Hindenburg in national election. Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany. -
HITLER
Hitler declares himself the “Fuhrer of Germany taking dictatorial power. -
Period: to
WWII
