Years and Dates
This is the year in which Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
What is 1933?
This man would be first named Chancellor of Germany, release Hitler from prison, then go on to bring Germany into the Golden Years as Foreign Minister
Who is Gustav Stresemann?
This German state was briefly a Soviet Republic in the early 1920s.
What is Bavaria?
This was Hitler's failed attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government.
What is the Munich/Beer Hall Putsch?
Benito Mussolini funder the rise to power of this Balkan monarch.
Who is King Zog?
Mussolini attacked Corfu in this year.
What is 1923?
This Tsar of Russia was renowned as an uninterested, weak individual, more concerned with ideas of military success than running his country.
Who is Nicholas II?
This Russian city was renamed later because it sounded too "German".
What is St Petersburg? (Petrograd)
This decision by Alexander II paved the way for complete societal change in Russia, though mainly because people were so upset about how it had been carried out.
What is the emancipation of the serfs, 1861?
Hitler hired this man to be his finance minister, using Mefo Bills (IOUs) to fund his military spending. When this minister told Hitler Germany was close to bankruptcy, Hitler simply replaced him with Hermann Goering.
Who is Hjalmar Schacht?
Time for some change - Locarno became the centre of European diplomacy in this year.
What is 1925?
This Italian politician helped Mussolini define fascism and essentially ran the education system in Fascist Italy.
Who is Giovanni Gentile?
This huge area of land was where Russian prisoners (like Leon Trotsky) would be sent to serve their punishment.
What is Siberia?
This is what happens when banks on one side of the world are allowed to do whatever they want with the money they're supposed to be looking after.
What is the Wall Street crash/Great Depression?
This advisor to Alexander III would go on to be Russia's first Prime Minister under Nicholas II.
Who is Sergei Witte?
The first Moroccan crisis erupted during this year; the same year as the Russian people received their first representative government (of sorts).
What is 1905?
This was one of the men responsible for the Night of the Long Knives; he wanted his SS to be Hitler's go-to paramilitary group.
Who is Heinrich Himmler?
What is Genoa?
This crisis came about as a result of the Russian military leader heading to Petrograd to get the city under control. It would give the Bolsheviks the weapons they needed to overthrow the Provisional Government.
This was the name of the official state newspaper in Communist Russia. It's literal translation is "truth".
What is "Pravda"?
This is the year that Alexander II became Tsar of Russia.
What is 1855?
This was the man who was vying with Franz von Papen for the role of Chancellor in Germany. It was him, or Hitler, as far as von Papen was concerned.
Who is Kurt von Schleicher?
This now-Croatian city was a key part of the Italian argument of "irridenta". D'Annunzio would occupy it; Mussolini would be given it.
What is Fiume? (Rijeka)
This incident outraged the Russian people so much, Nicholas II was forced to introduce the October Manifesto.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This Spanish politician led the CEDA, a heavily conservative Catholic party, who would help to form part of the Right Republic in 1934. He would be integral in planning the military coup in 1936.
Who is Jose Gil-Robles?