Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. ... He had scarcely adopted this position when he began urging participation on the Allied side. ... On October 28, an army of about 50,000 fascist militia, in black-shirted uniforms, marched into Rome and occupied the capital. ... Without firing a shot the Black Shirts had gained control of the Italian government. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. ... Hitler formed and organized the SA (Street Army) police, and the SS, a select group of bodyguards dressed in black, that helped to carry out his coercion practices on a national scale. ... Jews were behind war profits, reparations, inflation, and depression, but Marxism was also Jewish, and Communists were agents of the Jewish conspiracy. ... His staff would present him with information on the status and actions of all units down to division strength or lower, as well as on special subj...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any pr...

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