In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues the Treaty of Versailles and the world-wide economic collapse created an environment for communist and fascist dictatorships to rise from the ashes. After a brutal Civil War, the Communist Party took control of Russia and created the Soviet Union, later led by Joseph Stalin. In Italy, the fascist brute, Benito Mussolini, rose to power and embarked on consolidating power through censorship and intimidation. Corporatist and militarist Japan embarked on their a campaign of expansion in Manchuria, that led to the murder of tens of thousands of people, during the Rape of Nanking. Lastly, the inability of the Weimar Republic to bring prosperity to the German people, enabled the rise of a young Austrian born lance Corporal, Adolf Hitler, which had devastating consequences.

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