What factors help explain the ease with which Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy were able to conquer so much of Europe and Africa from 1933 to 1941? What problems in the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain made resistance to German and Italian aggression difficult?
How was the crisis of the 1930s rooted in the settlement of World War I at Versailles in 1919? How did that treaty change the political makeup of Europe, and why did the League of Nations fail to live up to its mission to preserve peace?
What goals did Hitler have in his conquests of the 1930s? How did these conquests fit into Hitler's plan for a "greater Germany?"
You are an American journalist living in Germany during the 1930s. Write three short dispatches home about the events in Europe, and how they may impact America in the near future.
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