Dictatorships and the Second World War (Chronology of Chapter 27)

1921

New Economic Policy (NEP) in U.S.S.R.

1922

Mussolini gains power in Italy

1924

Mussolini seizes dictatorial powers

1924 to 1929

Buildup of Nazi Party in Germany

1927

Stalin comes to power in U.S.S.R.

1928

Stalin's first five-year plan

1929

Lateran Agreement; start of collectivization in Soviet Union

1929 to 1939

Great Depression

1931

Japan invades Manchuria

1932 to 1933

Famine in Ukraine

1933

Hitler appointed chancellor in Germany; Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, granting Hitler absolute dictatorial power

1935

Nuremberg Laws deprive Jews of all rights of citizenship

1936

Start of great purges under Stalin; Spanish Civil War begins

1937

Japanese army invades China

1938

Kristallnacht marks beginning of a more aggressive anti-Jewish policy in Germany

1939

Germany occupies Czech lands and invades western Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany, starting World War II; Soviet Union occupies eastern Poland

1940

Germany defeats and occupies France; Battle of Britain begins

1941

Germany invades U.S.S.R.; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; United States enters war

1941 to 1945

The Holocaust

1942 to 1943

Battle of Stalingrad

1944

Allied invasion at Normandy

1945

Soviet and U.S. forces enter Germany; United States drops atomic bombs on Japan; World War II ends