It was led by a dictator.
It was mostly characterized by imperialistic notions of exploiting the local populace through mining and delegating different types of industries in these countries while at the same time paying the local population very small amounts in wages, compared to what they would have to pay in Britain or other European countries.
In the 1930's, The Atlantic Ocean met it's highest temperature ever which caused it to shrink.
The assassination of the Austrian Archduke