Which factor was common to the rise of authoritarian regimes between the wars?

Economic crisis, especially the Great Depression, that discredited existing governments

How did the Great Depression help Hitler come to power?

Mass unemployment and ruin made Germans desperate and boosted support for extreme parties like the Nazis

Its constitution and government were unpopular and seen as weak, so the system struggled to cope with crisis

A show of force by Mussolini's Fascists that led to him being made Prime Minister

Post-war discontent, economic problems and fear of communism and disorder

By controlling the Communist Party machine and outmanoeuvring rivals such as Trotsky

Through terror, the secret police and the purges, plus propaganda and a cult of personality

The Five-Year Plans and collectivisation of agriculture

Because economic distress discredited civilian rule and militarists offered expansion as a solution

The invasion of Manchuria in 1931

It is one of the issues that can be set as the source-based case study, so it must be known in depth

Weighing the named factor against the other causes and reaching a justified judgement

The factors interacted, for example the Depression mattered because government was already weak and a movement was ready to exploit it

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