Labels:text | font | paper | calligraphy | document OCR: NOVEMBER 7, 1921 Mussolini becomes leader of National Fascist party OCTOBER 30, 1922 Mussolini's Black Shirts march on Rome NOVEMBER 25, 1922 Chamber of Deputies grants full financial power to Mussolini NOVEMBER 12, 1923 Hitler arrested following failure of Beer Hall Putsch APRIL 1, 1924 Hitler sentenced to five years' imprisonment JANUARY 3, 1925 Mussolini bans all opposition and assumes total power JULY 18, 1925 Hitler's "Mein Kampf" published, attacking Communists and Jews APRIL 10, 1932 Hindenburg defeats Hitler in run-off presidential election JANUARY 30, 1933 Hitler takes office as chancellor of Germany FEBRUARY 28, 1933 Fire destroys Reichstag; Hitler's government blames Communists MAY 10, 1933 Nazis burn "un-German" Marxist and Jewish books JUNE 30, 1934 Hitler's enemies murdered in Night of the Long Knives SEPTEMBER 15, 1935 Jews no longer German under Nuremberg laws MARCH 7, 1936 Nazi troops violate treaties by marching into Rhineland MAY 9, 1936 Ethiopia falls to Italy and Haile Selassie flees to U.K. JULY 19, 1936 Franco leads rebel troops into Spain from Morocco NOVEMBER 25, 1936 lapan follows Italy and signs anti-Communist pact with Germany APRIL 27, 1937 Nazi planes devastate Guernica in Spain MARCH 12, 1938 Anschluss - Germany annexes Austria SEPTEMBER 29, 1938 Munich Pact gives Germany rights to Czech Sudetenland OCTOBER 1, 1938 Hitler sends German troops to occupy the Sudetenland NOVEMBER 9, 1938 Jews are killed and their shops looted and burned in Crystal Night pogrom MARCH 15, 1939 Nazis enter Prague; all Czechoslovakia now under Hitler's control MARCH 28, 1939 Spanish Civil War nears end as Franco enters Madrid MAY 22, 1939 Italy and Germany sign "Pact of Steel" aiming to reorganize Europe AUGUST 23, 1939 Germany and Soviet Russia sign non-aggression treaty SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 German troops invade Poland in Blitzkrieg attack
