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1919
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Mussolini created a new political group called the "Fascio di Combattimento", which means "League of Combat"
1920 - 1922
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Peasants hoarding food, plus a drought, caused major famine, 5 million lives lost.
1920
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Benito Mussolini established the movement in Italy in the early 1920s
3/1921
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Lenin stops war communism and begins to follow his modified version of old capitalism where the government controlled industry, banking, and mines
1922
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King of Italy made Mussolini prime minister
1922
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Lenin and the Communists created a new state called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1924
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Lenin died. Immediately afterward there was a power struggle.
1926
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Mussolini ruled Itals as "Il Duce" = "The Leader"
1926
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Secret police known as OVRA started in Italy
1927
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Trotsky was expelled from the communist party.
1928 - 1933
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Stalin's first five-year plan emphasized production of armaments and capital goods. Rapid industrialization.
1930 - 1940
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Over the 1930's Stalin had many real and imagined opponents put to death or sent to forced labor camps in Siberia. Old Bolsheviks, army officers, union officials, intellectuals, etc.
1932 - 1933
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Collectivization of farms didn't work well, output fell. 10 million people died of famine.
1936 - 1939
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Led by General Francisco Franco, Spanish military revolted against the democratic government in 1936. Ended in 1939 when Franco captured Madrid.
1921
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Hitler took control of Nazi party
1923
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Hitler led failed uprising against the government. Wrote Mein Kampf in jail.
March 1933
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The Enabling Act passed in the Reichstag. It allowed Hitler the power to make decrees without the Reichstag.
1934
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President Hindenburg died and the office of president was abolished.
1935
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Jews were excluded from German citizenship. They were not allowed to marry Germans, and hard to wear yellow stars and carry identification papers.
November 1938
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Synagogues were burned and 7000 Jewish businesses were destroyed.
1939
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By 1939 all German young people were expected to join the Hitler Youth and swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler.