ACSEE (Form 6) The Rise of Dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan — practice questions

1. The question asks for effects of the dictatorships, not their causes and not the earlier unifications. 2. Both regimes pursued expansionist policies that the League of Nations proved unable to check. 3. Each unpunished aggression weakened the League further, until it lost credibility entirely. 4. The dictatorships also destabilised democracy, spread extreme nationalism, and led towards the Second World War. 5. Industrial development, the colonisation of Africa and the first military alliances belong to the earlier unification period, and confusing the two was a recorded error. _Source: NECTA ACSEE 2023 History 112/2, Question 3: The rise of dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan_

1. The depression began with the financial collapse of 1929 and deepened over the following years. 2. It ran to about 1933, bringing mass unemployment and destroying faith in existing governments. 3. That collapse of confidence is what let the Nazi and Fascist parties present themselves as the alternative. 4. Alongside it sat the threat of communism, the weaknesses of the existing political systems, and resentment left by the peace settlement. 5. These are causes of the dictatorships rather than their effects, a distinction the question turns on. _Source: NECTA ACSEE 2023 History 112/2, Question 3: The rise of dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan_