The Treaty of Versailles left many countries dissatisfied. In the Treaty of Versailles, the Italians had not gotten what they had been promised when they entered the war. This upset Mussolini and made him do something about it. The war also helped to disrupt the economy and society, opening the way for conflict that led to the rise of the fascists. The damages from WWI led to the circulation of new, radical ideas and solutions, such as fascism in Italy. This Fascist party, as Mussolini called it, later became a model for Hitler in Germany.The significance of the Treaty of Versailles in the path to WWII is mainly that Germany took on paying damages, but there is also the fact that this clause infuriated many Germans. When the time came for a second World War, many people remembered the humiliation that the Allies had put upon them. This made it easier for Hitler to convince the German people that there was a need for more war. Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party. By the late 1920s, he had become dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin ruled by terror and with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed.
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Stalin Stalin's connections helped him attain high positions in the new Soviet government. Lenin grew critical of Stalin, and many other Bolsheviks at this time. Lenin recommended Stalin's dismissal. Thereafter, Stalin politically isolated his major enemies and had them dismissed from government altogether. This eventually led him to be the sole uncontested leader of the Party and the Soviet Union. He began to take on marxism and communism as his main belief systems. Stalin wanted the women to get an education while maintaining the jobs they still had. He had the five year plans and command economy where the government makes all the economic decisions. Stalin ruled with an iron fist and didn't let anyone get in his way.
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MussoliniMussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism. He and his followers consolidated their power through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a one - party dictatorship. He had established dictatorial authority by both legal and extraordinary means, aspiring to create a totalitarian state. Mussolini had to control the people he wanted on his side in order to align with them.
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HitlerHitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting anti-communism with Nazi propaganda. Hitler frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish Conspiracy. He believed that no non-Germans should have any say in Germany. He did not believe that Jews could be Germans. Hitler believed that communism was a huge threat to Germany and should be destroyed. Germans living in the border areas of Czechoslovakia started to demand a union with Hitler's Germany. They refused and Hitler threatened war. Without asking Czechoslovakia Britain and France gave the land to Germany. Anyone who tried to get in Hitler's way and stop him would be killed.
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