TIME LINE
| 1920 | * Hitler changes the name of his party to
the National Socialist German Worker's Party,
the German equivalent of which was often shortened to Nazi. |
| 1922 | * Mussolini made Prime Minister in Italy |
| 1923 | * Hitler begins writing Mein Kampf while in jail |
| 1924 | * Stalin becomes leader of the U.S.S.R. after Lenin dies |
| 1925 | * Mein Kampf is published |
| 1926 | * Mussolini ruling Italy as IL Duce, the leader
* Hitler established himself as the Führer (leader) of the Socialist party * Hitler meets Joseph Goebbels and makes him head of propaganda.
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| 1929 | * Stalins dictatorship is established
in the Soviet Union
* Lateran Accords with Catholic Church Mussolini recognized
Vatican City, Catholic Church
* The Great Depression hits |
| 1930 | * Reichstag elections of the National Socialists polled almost 6.5 million votes |
| 1931 | * Beginnings of National Government coalition
in Britain, as a reaction to the Depression
they were under. |
| 1932 | * Franklin Roosevelt is elected President
of the United States
* July --> The Nazi Party receives the
largest share of the vote in German
elections,
but they fail to |
| 1933 | * Reichstag fire fire in Reichstag building, decree passed that gave government
emergency powers(to turn Germany into a police state.) * Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), known as the Gestapo, created to suppress * Enabling Act --> granted Hitler dictatorial powers and signified the end of the Weimar Republic * President Von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor March --> The Nazis open the first concentration camp at Dachau, just outside Munich, Germany. * Japan's draw back from the League of Nations. * Oct --> Germany's quits from the League of Nations and its withdrawal from all disarmament talks |
| 1934 | * President Hindenberg dies; Hitler is sole
ruler of Germany Third Reich begins
* Purge of the SA killing of SA leaders in return for army support of Hitler taking over Germany. * February riots in France. Fascist
leagues marched through French streets
threatening
to seize * Sept 19 --> Soviet Union joins the League of Nations. |
| 1935 | * Nuremberg Laws excluded German Jews
from German citizenship and forbade marriages
and extramarital relations between Jews and German citizens. * October-->Mussolini invades Ethiopia- army led by Badoglio |
| 1936 | * Beginnings of Stalins purge
killings of government officials.
* Formation of Popular Front in France. Coalition of Communists, Socialists, and Radicals * Rome-Berlin Axis formed |
| 1938 | * Sept 30th --> Munich Conference (Agreement): Britain (British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain) France (Daladier) and Italy (Mussolini) grant Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to Hitler to avoid war; Hitler gives Chamberlain his personal word on future cooperation (the height of the policy of Appeasement): ("Peace in our time"). * Nov --> Japan proclaims a "New Order in East Asia", with Japan as the lead nation. * Kristallnacht Nazi led destructive rampage against
Jews, where synagogues were burned, 700 |
| 1939 | * Fascist School Charter educational
system in Italy used as an instrument to
create the "new Fascist man.". * May 22 --> Germany and Italy sign "The Pact of Steel," a formal alliance * Aug 26 --> Hitler's guarantees the neutrality
of Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg , Denmark
& * Sept 17 --> Russian troops invade Poland from the East. * Sept 27 --> Poland surrenders to Nazi Germany
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| 1945 | * May 7 --> Germany surrenders
* August 6 --> atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima * August 14 --> Japan surrenders |
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