Tag: Fascism

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31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

31st October 2021
Tagged as: Blackshirts, Fascism, Italy, March on Rome, Mussolini, Revolution, Rome, Victor Emmanuel III

Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in 1919.

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4th October 1936: The Battle of Cable Street took place in London’s East End

4th October 2021
Tagged as: Britain, British Union of Fascists, England, Fascism, London, Oswald Mosley

The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.

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2nd May 1945: The Battle of Berlin ends with the German surrender to the USSR

2nd May 2020
Tagged as: Berlin, Communism, Fascism, Germany, Hitler, Nazi, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR

The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.

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10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists

10th June 2019
Tagged as: Crime, Fascism, Italy, Kidnap, Murder, Mussolini, Socialist

Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist party.

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31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

4th October 1936: The Battle of Cable Street took place in London’s East End

2nd May 1945: The Battle of Berlin ends with the German surrender to the USSR

10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

19th May 1536: The execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of the future Elizabeth I

18th May 1291: The Siege of Acre saw the Muslim forces of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil seize control of the Crusader-controlled city

17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids

16th May 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution in China when Mao releases the ‘May 16th Notification’

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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