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Totalitarian regimes appeared and consolidated in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. The peace that follwed the end of the war was not an era of prosperity. Economic hardships, high unemployment rates, high inflation rates, poverty and other malaises struck European societies. Things were made worse by the Great Depression of 1929. In that context, fascist parties and leaders rose to prominence and power, eventually, in Italy and Germany. A local fascist force won the Spanish Civil War. They exploited people´s feelings of dispair and insecutiry, and grievances resulting from the war´s outcome; they promised improvement, jobs, security. The rise of European fascim contributed to the outbreak of WWII.
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