Inter-War Years History

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Joseph Goebbels' insidious role in spreading Nazi propaganda
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Joseph Goebbels turned mass media into a weapon of control. Through manipulation of language and imagery that stirred powerful feelings, he spread antisemitism, glorified Hitler, and helped justify war and genocide. His propaganda was designed to intention mislead, and it would ultimately create a false reality in which millions placed their trust...
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Why did Hitler and Mussolini support Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
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On 26 July 1936, Adolf Hitler received two envoys from General Francisco Franco at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival and agreed, within hours, to send …
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How much did Germany really pay in reparations from the Treaty of Versailles?
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During the 1920s, American banks lent Germany more money than Germany ever paid in reparations for the First World War.
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Why the League of Nations could not have prevented the Second World War
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On 19 November 1919, the United States Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and, with it, American membership of the League of Nations: the very …
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Hitler was very nearly assassinated in 1939, but survived by just minutes
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In the final months of 1938, a quiet carpenter from Königsbronn named Johann Georg Elser began to plan the most dangerous act of German resistance against Adolf Hitler before the Second World War had even begun. Elser hated the direction in which Hitler had taken Germany and blamed him for the regime's militarism. For that reason, he believed that killing Hitler might prevent a devastating war and decided to act alone...
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The iron fist of Franco: The ruthless rise of Spain's dictator
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By the early twentieth century, Spain had entered a long period of instability that was increasingly full of political assassinations and regional uprisings that exposed repeated failures to implement lasting reform. After municipal elections earlier that month had rejected monarchist candidates, King Alfonso XIII abdicated on 14 April 1931, and the Second Republic was declared...

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