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Mussolini's rise to power
Benito Mussolini and his Fascists Squads -
Berlinors are worried because of the economic downturn
A run on a bank in Berlin. -
Stock market crash leads europeans to unemployement and poverty.
A young and hopelessly unemployed Berliner panhandles for spare change. -
Hörst Wessel, a Nazi activist, is assassinated in Berlin by a communist militant during a propaganda march.
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May Day 1930: Pro-communist Berliners express admiration of Soviet Russia.
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Sir Oswald Mosley creates the British Union of Fascists.
Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Blackshirts (the militia of the BUF) -
NSDAP wins parliamentary elections with Hitler as party leader
Hitler’s personal propaganda. The staging of power. -
Hitler is inaugurated Reich Chancellor.
Hitler’s accession to power after elections -
Joseph Goebbels becomes Hitler’s Minister of propaganda
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The end of democracy and the Military power in Germany.
Hitler, supported by the army, establishes absolute power by merging the offices of chancellor and president. -
Beginning of the Spanish Civil War
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Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, now in the National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Guernica depicts the violence during the Spanish Civil War. -
Guernica is bombed
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Munich Agreement: Chamberlain declares 'Peace for Our Time'
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End of the Spanish Civil War
Franco sets up an authoritarian regime in Spain. -
Death of Franco
Also the end of his military dictatorship