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Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the
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It took Mussolini much longer then Hitler to create a Dictatorship. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and his power was just that, he was considered the dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Joseph Stalin had big plans, including changing the USSR into a more industrial economy. Thats just what he did when he become dictator of the soviet union in 1929. He changed the New Economic Policy into the Command Econmy, launhing a period of industrialization. This resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from a agrarian society into a industrial power.
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when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Epire of Japn, the Japanese esablished a puppet state called Manchukuo. They occupied this land until the end of World War 2.
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The people of Germany looked up to Hitler after their big loss in the Great War and the Versailles Treaty. Germany elected Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, with the hopes that he would give their state power over all others. They couldn't be more wrong.....
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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
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Ethiopia(Abyssinia), which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer in the 1890s, was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935.
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In March 1936, Hitler took what for him was a huge gamble - he ordered that his troops should openly re-enter the Rhineland thus breaking the terms of Versailles once again. He did order his generals that the military should retreat out of the Rhineland if the French showed the slightest hint of making a military stand against him. This did not occur. Over 32,000 soldiers and armed policemen crossed into the Rhineland
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