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1. German reparations
2. Expansion of production capacities and dominance of the United States in the global economy
3. High protective tariffs
4. Excessive expansion of credit
5. Stock Market Crash (1929)

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1. High unemployment in industrial countries
2. Bank failures and collapse of credit
3. Collapse of prices in world trade 4. Nazi Party’s growing importance in Germany; Nazi Party’s blame of European Jews for economic collapse

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Economic dislocations following World War I led to unstable political conditions. Worldwide depression in the 1930s provided opportunities for the rise of dictators in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, and Japan

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1. JOSEPH STALIN

Entrenchment of communism

Stalin’s policies (five-year plans, collectivization of farms, state industrialization, secret police) Great Purge

2. ADOLF HITLER
• Inflation and depression
• Democratic government weakened
• Anti-Semitism
• Extreme nationalism
• National Socialism (Nazism)
• German occupation of nearby countries
3. BENITO MUSSOLINI
• Rise of fascism
• Ambition to restore the glory of Rome
• Invasion of Ethiopia
4. HIROHITO AND HIDEKI TOJO
• Militarism
• Industrialization of Japan, leading to drive for raw materials
• Invasion of Korea, Manchuria, and the rest of China

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1. Pessimism: a tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen; a lack of hope or confidence in the future
2. Surrealism: a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind
3. Great Purge: was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938
4. Fascism:  a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual
5. Great Depression:

the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years

a long and severe recession in an economy or market.