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| rdfs:label | - European Theatre of World War II
- European theatre of World War II
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| rdfs:comment | - After Germany was defeated in World War I, the Treaty of Versailles placed punitive conditions on the country, including significant financial reparations, the loss of territory (some only temporarily), and war guilt clauses. While Germany ended up actually paying only a small amount of the reparations, many Germans blamed their country's post-war economic collapse and hyperinflation on the treaty's conditions. These resentments contributed to the political instability which made it possible for Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party to come to power, with Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany.
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| Commander | - Joseph Stalin
- Adolf Hitler
- Winston Churchill
- Benito Mussolini
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Caption | - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy.
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| Result | - Decisive Allied victory
*Collapse of Fascist Italy
*Collapse of Nazi Germany
*End of World War II in Europe
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| combatant | - Italy
- South Africa
- (Other allies)
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| Place | - Europe and adjoining regions.
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| abstract | - After Germany was defeated in World War I, the Treaty of Versailles placed punitive conditions on the country, including significant financial reparations, the loss of territory (some only temporarily), and war guilt clauses. While Germany ended up actually paying only a small amount of the reparations, many Germans blamed their country's post-war economic collapse and hyperinflation on the treaty's conditions. These resentments contributed to the political instability which made it possible for Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party to come to power, with Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. Meanwhile, in Italy fascist leader Benito Mussolini came to power in 1923, after his March on Rome had turned the country into a fascist state. Both leaders and parties had a strong sense of nationalism with them, and turned their respective countries into totalitarian and repressive states. After Hitler took Germany out of the League of Nations, Mussolini and Hitler formed the Rome-Berlin axis, under a treaty known as the Pact of Steel. Later, Japan would also join. Japan and Germany had already signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1939. Other smaller powers also later joined the axis.
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