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Lenin/Stalin and the Bolsheviks perform a coup in Russia, founding
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1917 |
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Mussolini and Fascists come to power in Italy, 1922 |
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Empire of Japan invades Manchuria, China, September 18, 1931 |
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Hitler and Nazis come to power in Germany, forming the Third Reich,
March 1933 |
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Italy invades Ethiopia, 1935 |
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German troops cross the Rhine River against Treaty of Versailles,
1936 |
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Italy conquers Ethiopia, May, 1936 |
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(Italian dictator Benito Mussolini rides with German Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler through the streets of Rome after announcing the alliance
between the two nations, November, 1937) |
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Japan launches major assault on China, July 7, 1937 |
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Italy and Germany form Rome-Berlin Axis, November 1, 1937 |
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German troops annex Austria, March 12, 1938 |
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Munich Agreement sacrifices Czechoslovakia to Hitler, 1938 |
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia, 1939 |
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Czechoslovakia falls to Third Reich, March 1939 |
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Soviet/German Nonaggression Pact signed, August 23, 1939 |
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(German Reichstag hails Hitler for his peaceful annexation of
Austria, March, 1938) |
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German forces invade Poland, September 1, 1939 |
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(Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov signs the Nonaggression Pact
with Germany while Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin watches behind
him, August 23,1939) |
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