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Franco was from a military family, and although originally intent on entering the Spanish Navy.
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situation in 1931 when Japanese troops, claiming that Chinese soldiers had tried to blow up a railway line. They took matters in their own hands by capturing several southern Manchurian cities. By continuing to take over the country even after Chinese troops had withdrawn,
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His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats.
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As a result, the colony of Italian East Africa proved to be short -lived. The Italians attacked British and commonwealth forces in Sudan, Kenya, and British Somaliland. While in exile in England, Haile Selassie had sounght to gain the support of the Western democracies for his cause.
