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16-1 1. Totalitarian governments came to power in many countries during the 1920’s and 1930’s including Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Russia 2. The goal of the militarists who took control in Japan was to maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. 3. The Treaty of Versailles ending WWI did not did not ensure peace for Europe and make the world safe for democracy but instead caused danger and did little to halt the rise totalitarian government. 4. The league of Nations responded to totalitarian aggression by France and Great Britain finally abandoned appeasement in September 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland and 5. U.S foreign policy after WWI many think of America as the country that is the resolver, the country that intervenes, and the country that steps in, in order to promote the idea of not having world conflict. 6. Example of U.S internationalism in the 1920’s and 1930’s included the United States attempted to stay out of world affairs. It was only after WWII that the U.S. took a conservative internationalist approach, first under Truman, then later under Reagan, both of whom made great strides to eliminate the threat of Communism. 7. U.S isolationism in the 1930’s was largely the result of reflected by Neutrality Act. 8. Many Americans had difficulty with the policy of neutrality because they were seeing the Atlantic Ocean as less and less of a protective barrier than what it had been.
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1. In 1938, Hitler ordered the German invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland for the purpose of Austria and Czechoslovakia, producing more living space for Germans as well as to control its important natural resources.

2. In response to German