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Adolf Hiltler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933. He ended democracy, and instead changed it to totalitarian.

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Adolf Hitler hated all Jewish people, which is known as Anti-Semitism.

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He formed the Nazi party (National Socialist Party.)  This party blamed the Jewish people for Germany's economic troubles, militaristic failures, and all other things that were going wrong.  He was able to take control because he promised that he could turn Germany back to its former days of glory.

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Hitler believe that Germany should be able to expand. He defied the Versailles treaty by rebuilding the military. He also formed an alliance with Italy in 1936.

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Hitler and his army continued to move forward. In March of 1936, German troops entered the Rhineland, which was previously a neutral area. In March of 1938, troops entered Austria.

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Following all of the previous expansions, he ordered troops to Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. He pretended that Germans were being mistreated. Although Czechoslovakia was going to fight against Hitler, Britain and France stopped them. They met in Munich, Germany for the Munich Conference. They told Hitler he could not expand further if he got the Sudetenland.

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Hitler did not follow the demands, and in March of 1939, he took control of the rest of Czechoslovakia. He then signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact in August. This allowed him to invade Poland, which he had not done so before because of fear of the Soviet Union helping their allies.

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Hitler relied on the fact that people wanted change and that others wanted peace.  The Germans were unhappy, so he took control by playing onto the fact that he would change the country.  He fed them lies and they believed him because of their desperation.  In fact, he got elected to become Chancellor (which means he was legally chosen at first.)

Once he began to expand, he began to play onto the fact that others wanted peace and were afraid of consequences. He used appeasement to stop the other countries from stopping him until much later when he was more powerful, and thousands had already been killed. He formed alliances, and was quickly able to take over most of Eastern Europe.

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Mussolini gained power by the support of those who opposed the Versailles treaty. He became the leader of Italy, and he began using fascism.

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In 1922, Mussolini and the Fascist Party that he had created forced Italy's king to name Mussolini as the leader. Mussolini vowed to increase the size of Italy's armies and regain Rome's ancient glory.

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He became known as Il Duce, which means The Leader. He ended democracy, civil liberties, and the freedom of the press.

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In 1935, Mussolini took over Ethiopia. He left the League of Nations before conquering Albania in 1939.

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The League of Nations decided to ban trade of select goods with Italy, but it did not work out as the League of Nations did not have the necessary power to make sure that people followed the ban.

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Mussolini was able to gain power in similar ways as Hitler. He took advantage of people's anger about WW1 and the Versailles Treaty.

Although some tried to stop him, such as the League of Nations, many did not try. They let his actions be ignored, and would eventually pay the price for it.

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Japan was struggling during the Depression as the had a lack of food and jobs, so military leaders decided that Japan needed more land, and with it, the resources the land provided.

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In September 1931, the Japanese military invaded Manchuria, China. This region was filled with minerals.

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Although the League of Nations didn't support Japan, they did nothing about it. In 1937, the rest of China was invaded. Soon afterwords, they joined Germany (Hitler) and Italy (Mussolini) in the "Axis" alliance.

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Although Japan invaded China, the world did nothing about it. They did not punish them in any way besides saying things about it. This allowed Japan to become one of the Axis powers and become the last country still fighting for the Axis.

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Joseph Stalin rose to power in the late 1920s. He became a Communist leader. Stalin used force to gain obedience, which included executing rivals, and sending others to labor camps.

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America was a neutral country as many wanted to avoid foreign troubles. This was to keep the nation out of wars because they were still struggling with the Depression.

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Congress passed Neutrality Acts, one in 1935 and one in 1937. They banned the sale of weapons. They also banned sending loans to foreign countries as many countries had not paid their loans off after WW1, so Congress wanted to prevent more debt.

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Although the U.S. didn't harm the situation in Europe, the U.S. also didn't help. Many causalities could have been prevented had the world stepped in sooner, but in the U.S. the Neutrality Acts prevented it.

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Stalin was another leader who took power because people wanted change. He took advantage of the timing and what people wanted to become the leader.