IN CONTEXT
Rise of fascism
1918 World War I leaves Europe politically and economically unstable.
1920 The National Socialist (or Nazi) Party is founded in Germany, with racism a central tenet.
1922 Benito Mussolini is made Italian premier by King Victor Emmanuel III.
1935 Mussolini invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia) as part of his ambitious foreign policy.
1936–39 The Spanish Civil War is fought.
1938 Adolf Hitler invades Austria. The Munich Pact grants Hitler control of the Sudetenland.
1939 Hitler orders the invasion of Poland, which triggers World War II.
When fire broke out at the Reichstag, the German parliament building, just after 9pm on ...
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