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Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945. Originally a revolutionary socialist, he forged the paramilitary fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. Called “Il Duce” or simply “Mussolini,” he allied himself with Adolf Hitler during World War II,
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Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933. Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the outbreak of World War II, and by 1941 Nazi forces had occupied much of Europe.Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945.
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In June 1938, the Nationalists drove to the Mediterranean Sea and cut Republican territory in two. On March 28, 1939, the victorious Nationalists entered Madrid in triumph, and the Spanish Civil War came to an end. Up to a million lives were lost in the conflict, the most devastating in Spanish history
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On July 18, 1936, the Spanish Civil War begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain.
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan.
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The principal participants were the Axis powers:Germany, Italy, and Japan,and the Allies: France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.
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The Franquismo was a long dictatorship, which its leader was Franciso Franco, which had all the power of the state until he died in 1975.
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World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945.
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
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Five years of devastating conflict have plunged Yemen into one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. The country is on the brink of famine and is also experiencing the largest cholera outbreak ever recorded.
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