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Feb. and Oct. : Bolshevik revolutions
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Nov. : Emperor William II abdicates. Establishment of the Weimar Republic.
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Mussolini forms "Combat Leagues"
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National Socialist Party (NSDAP) founded
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"March on Rome" by Mussolini
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Stalin becomes General Secretary
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USSR is founded
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French occupation of the Ruhr
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Munich Putsch; Hitler arrested
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Lenin and Trotski break with Satline
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Fascicts assassinate deputy Matteotti
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Lenin dies; Stalin takes power
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Establishment of Mussolini's dictatorship
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"Fascist Laws" enacted
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Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party
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Trotsky exiled; Stalin initiates collectivization
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Nazis win legislative elections
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27-28: Reichstag fire; freedoms suspended
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Staline second five-year plan
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
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Dachau concentration camp opens
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June 29-30: Night of the Long Knives
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Mussolini launches policy of autarky
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Nuremberg anti-Semitic laws
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Mussolini get support for Franco in Spain
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Italian victory in Ethiopia
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Apr. 1936 - Mar. 1938: Moscow Trials and Stalinist purges
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Second Moscow trial against Red Army leaders
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Mar. : Anschluss (German troops enter Austria)
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Third Moscow Trial: Execution Boukharine
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Nov. 9-10: Kristallnacht pogrom
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Radical and anti-Semitic political launch
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May: The "Pact of Steel" between Italia and Germany
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Aug. : Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
