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Road to World War II Review

Adolf Hitler

National Socialist Workers Party (NAZI)

Wolfgang Kapp

  • Kapp Putsch

Mussolini

Fascio di Combattimento

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Squadristi

March on Rome

Ras

King Victor Emmanuel III

Acerbo Law

Giacomo Matteotti

Aventino Succession 

Lateran Pacts

Treaty of Rapallo 

Role of Ruhr

Sturm Abteilung (SA) 

  • Ernst Rohm

Beer Hall Putsch

Erich Ludendorff

Mein Kampf

Deputy Reich Fuhrer Rudolph Hess

Schutzstaffel (SS) 

Heinrich Himmler

Horst Wessel

Joseph Goebbels

Alfred Hugenburg

Young Plan

Heinrich Bruning

President Hindenburg 

Marinus van der Lubbe

Reichstag

Enabling Acts

Decree for the Protection of the People 

Manchurian Incident

Lytton Commission

Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  • Haile Selassie 

  • Hoare and Laval Pact 

Night of the Long Knives (Operation Hummingbird) 

Stresa Front

Anglo-German Naval Agreement, 1935

Nuremberg Laws

Saar Plebiscite

The Pact of Steel

Autarky

Rhineland

Jesse Owens

Spanish Civil War

  • King Alfonso XIII

  • Repubilcans (Loyalists)

  • Fascists (Falangists)

  • Jose Sanjurjo

  • Emilio Mola

  • Francisco Franco

  • President Azana

  • Non-intervention Committee

  • International Brigades

  • Picasso's Guernica

  • "Dress Rehearsal" 

Appeasement

Anschluss

  • Engelbert Dollfuss

  • Kurt von Schuschnigg

  • Dr. Seyss-Inquart

Sudetenland

  • Munich Agreement

Neville Chamberlain

Cystal Night

Pact of Friendship (Nazi-Soviet Pact) 

Treaty of Mutual Assistance

Phony War

Concepts to Understand

  1. Understand the different treaties, conferences, plans, pacts, etc. that took place during the interwar period.

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