Economic Depression & Dictators: Crash Course

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Video

John Horgan
by CrashCourse
published on 18 April 2021

We're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Spain, and the economic depression that set the stage for their rise.

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