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Mussolini’s March on Rome
In October 1922, Mussolini marched on Rome with his followers named “Black Shirts.” When important government officials, the army, and the police sided with the Fascists, the Italian king appointed Mussolini head of the government. Mussolini extended Fascist control to every aspect of Italian life. Mussolini achieved this by making Italy a totalitarian state. -
Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
Stain became the prime minister of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladmir Lenin. Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned, forced labour camps, and at least 700,000 executed. He had absolute control over the party and government. -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf
Hitler set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that became the plan of action for the Nazi Party. Hitler believed that for Germany to thrive, it needed more lebensraum. Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, he hoped that publishing the book would earn him some money and serve as a propaganda platform to air his radical views and attack those whom he accused of betraying him and Germany. -
1st “five year plan” in USSR
In the Soviet Union the first Five-Year Plan, implemented by Joseph Stalin, was to develop heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. Initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan's ongoing industrialization and militarization ensured their growing dependence on oil and metal imports from the US.The US prevented trade which resulted in Japan furthering its expansion in the territory of China and Southeast Asia Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. -
Holodomor
Holodomor is the starvation of millions of Ukrainians as a result of Soviet policies. Ukrainians were starved if they resisted any form of USSR policies. Stalin did this so Ukrainians cant seek Independence. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
The Nazi party, assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government after the parliamentary elections of July and November 1932 had not resulted in the formation of a majority government. -
“Night of the Long Knives” in Germany
The Night of Long Knives, also known as the Röhm Putsch, was the purge of the SA leadership and other political opponents, Hitler felt a threat to Röhms power. He was killed so it can help Hitler and the Nazi Party to consolidate absolute power in Germany by removing their political opposition. -
Nuremburg Laws enacted
The Nuremberg Law were racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. The two laws were the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
It was a war of aggression by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to May 1936. It is seen as an example of the expansionist policy that characterized the Axis powers and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations and Italy's Military before the outbreak of the Second World. There was poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps were all employed. -
The Great Purge and gulags
The Great Terror of 1937, also known as the Great Purge, was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. Gulags were the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed the political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. -
Spanish civil war
The Nationalist group comprised a section of the royalist army officials, capitalists, landowners, and the affluents who stood against the Republicans. Although the causes of the Spanish Civil War were many, the immediate reason was the army coup against the Republican government. Generals Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco launched an uprising aimed at overthrowing the country's democratically elected republic. -
The Rape of Nanking
The Nanjing Massacre was the mass murder, rape, looting, and arson of Chinese civilians in Nanjing. Chinese soldiers were hunted down and killed by the thousands, and left in mass graves. Many of the Japanese troops, hungry, undisciplined and exhausted by weeks of marching and brutal fighting in the battle for Shanghai. They were seeking revenge for the comrades lost in that earlier battle. -
Kristallnacht
“Night of Broken Glass.” Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. Around 100 Jews were killed, and hundreds more were injured. Some 30,000 Jews were arrested and hundreds of synagogues were burned. Afterward, the Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This invasion marked the beginning of World War II. Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war. This is called the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
After capturing Manchuria, Japan became down in a full-scale war with China in 1937 and had to look elsewhere for the resources it needed to fight Japan decided to attack the U.S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, hoping that the U.S would negotiate peace. The attack at Pearl Harbor Though Japan took its objectives in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, the U.S did not respond as expected. Instead of reverting to isolationism, the U.S geared up for total war and Japan's fate was sealed.