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What were the benefits of Japanese militarism?

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What were the benefits of Japanese militarism?

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- A disjointed army and navy allowed total freedom of military action. The japanese military could engage in international conquest spontaneously.
- The military could inspire national pride and patriotism with their victories, since they were fighting so much.
- It allowed the military to act independently and act as a sort of government system of its own, which made it more powerful.

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What causes Japan to become a military state?

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What causes Japan to become a military state?

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- Japan's successful invasion of Manchuria prompted a question: How would Japan control the economy of its territories? The military decided on a method where they would directly control the economy in order to extract wealth.
- Japan's controlled economy method spread to the homeland to the point where the government controlled all of the trade in the country.
- Because the military was responsible for the controlled economy, it soon became more like a government body and eventually merged with the government.

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Stalin took power after Lenin's death in 1924, and imminently returned Russia to an authoritarian state.

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While the two systems oppose one another, Stalin's communism and fascism share a lot of similarities. Like both of them aimed to install a totalitarian system that can do as it pleased. And they both used violence to suppress political opponents. With all that said, the two systems are also very different. On paper the Soviets rejected racism and ethnic nationalism. These ideas were a central part of fascism.

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- March 24, 1933, hitler passed the Enabling Act which gave him all government power in Germany,
-  he had all the powers he needed to create a dictatorship, he also used his power to take control of German life.
- on the surface, everything hitler was doing seemed normal to the population, which helped them to complete their operations.

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nazi with a sign that reads "Germans! Defend Yourselves! Don’t buy from Jews!”

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- they first started with legal attacks on Jewish people,
- then hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws on September 15, 1935, taking away German citizenships from jews and outlawing marriage between a Jewish and German couple
- then came laws that made employment, public education and business owning illegal to Jewish people.

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- first the nazis separated the different racial groups, and separated the jewish germans from the non Jewish germans
- after the German society saw that hitler was capable of taking away the home, job, and family of a whole religious community, they feared what else he could do
- they then took total control of the military, the economy, the healthcare system, elementary education and film and radio industries  and used them as propaganda