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) One-party state, led by a dictator, promotes political violence and w ar, extremely nationalistic and seek to purify their country of foreign influence, political opposition and individual freedoms oppressed, advocate state regulate d economy. 2.) After having to pay retributions from the war, Germanys economy suffer ed greatly. Even after Britain, the US and other world powers agreed to lessen G ermanys reparation payments set by the Versailles Treaty and Germanys economy made a small rebound, the stock markets soon crashed, and the Great Depression affec ted Germanys already weakened economy even more than other countries. Japan, a powerful empire, responded to the economic downturn by adopting Keynesi an economics and increasing government spending to stimulate the economy. Since they had also previously replied on US imports of raw materials to fuel their ra pid industrial growth, Japan instead turned to aggressively invade Chinas norther n province of Manchuria in order to gain their rich natural resources. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and a time of political unrest that led t o a civil war, Russia joined with a number of other countries to for the Union o f Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR or Soviet Union. They adopted Communism over Capitalism and in the face of the Great Depression, their separate economic syst em prevented them from being affected greatly by the economic downturn. This led many people to believe that Communism was a better alternative to Capitalism. H owever, they were not aware of Russia and the USSRs internal conflicts. Joseph St alin, leader of the Soviet Union was a ruthless dictator and though they made ec onomic strides, the people of the Soviet Union were robbed of their political an d individual freedoms. Stalins policies for agriculture and the economy caused th e deaths of millions of people. 3.) People had no money, no jobs and barely any hope left in their governm ents and Capitalism in particular. They were desperate and, with little faith le ft in the political systems they had trusted so far, began to find hope in other , different systems of government. Charismatic leaders, such as Hitler himself, could sway the public with eloquent speeches and publicity campaigns. Leaders wh o seized power in this way could then establish themselves as dictators and rule over their people with an iron fist. 4.) At first, I would have believed him to be a revolutionary, fighting fo r the working class against an unjust monarchy. However, after Stalin proved him self the ruthless dictator he would eventually be, I would feel shame for suppor ting him and the Bolsheviks, and nave for having believed in a cause that played out so differently from what I was hoping to achieve. 5.) Hitler was an extremely charismatic public speaker and could sway crow ds with his eloquent and convincing speeches. He made the people of Germany feel superior with talk nationalism and provided them with an excuse for their econo mic difficulties by blaming their problems on other races. In times as desperate as those were, the people wanted an easy way out and Hitler provided all the hy pothetical answers for their problems. 6.) Everyone wants to feel special and elite, so when the German people we re offered this theory of them, Germans and Aryans, being the ultimate, master rac e, especially during a time of economic difficulties, they jumped at the chance to be considered above other, especially when this theory was justified so arden tly by Hitlers speeches and popular public appearances. 7.) Though not a typical totalitarian government, Japan had all the elemen ts that made it one. Japans people were already extremely nationalistic and felt superior to other races. The government had very little power, as all officials reported to the Emperor alone. Modeled after European fascism, Japan created the ir version of the German Gestapo, the Kempaitai, which had the authority to arre st, kill and torture anyone thought to be a threat or enemy of the state. Econom

ic power was held almost completely by large family-owned corporations, such as Mitsubishi. Japan had a large and powerful military, which began strengthening i n the 1930s by invading other countries territories for their resources and land. 8.) Summary: There were many desperate, poor and hopeless people looking f or solutions to their problems. The political systems they had believed in till then had proven unstable, so they instead turned to new, radical approaches to g overnment, hoping for the right solutions but instead ending up with violent dic tatorial governments.