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Many foreigners thought that Germany would be unable to pay. Foreign banks and businesses expected increasingly large amounts of German money in exchange for their own currency. It became expensive for Germany to buy food and raw materials from other countries.
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Mussolini made it clear that he intended to govern authoritatively. Many Italians welcomed his authority,especially the middle-class.
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Adolf Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" during his imprisonment of 9 months. The book is about everything Hitler sees wrong about Germany. Hitler wanted racial purity.
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Under Stalin, the Soviet Union went from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. Stalin ruled by terror, and millions of his own people died under his rule.
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An explosion staged by military officials to justify the Japanese invasion of northeastern China. Fueled by economic and political interests, they placed a small amount of dynamite next to a Japanese-owned railway line near Mukden.
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Hitler's plan was to make Germany a unified, one-party state. He immediately ordered expansion of the Gestapo. -
. The league blamed Japan for the Invasion of Manchuria. Rounds of negotiations between the League and Japan had failed so Japan’s formal resignation from the League was filed 6 months after the league was formed.
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Events in Europe and Asia indicated that a new world war might occur, so the U.S. took precaution and enforced neutrality. This act was the first step in the U.S. isolating itself from everyone else. -
The uprising consisted of military action between the existing republican government and nationalists led by Francisco Franco. The goal was to gain control from the republicans who were loyal to the Spanish Republic.
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An agreement was reached that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland provided he promised not to invade anywhere else.
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This night is known as "Night of Broken Glass", due to Nazis attacking Jewish owned stores and buildings. They also torched synagogues and killed almost 100 people during this. -
This organization advocated Italian nationalism, enforced his black shirts committee, and displayed acts of terror.
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Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the soviet military. -
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to redeem lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.
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This Pact provided mutual assistance if any of them who signed were to suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war.
