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I.        The rise of dictators

A.      Four nations were trying to expand their power and territory

1.       Japan

a.       In 1937 Japan seized most of coastal China

b.      Then, in 1938, the Japanese announced a “new order in East Asia”

2.       Italy

a.       Benito Mussolini organized the Fascist party.

b.      Fascism is a form of government in which a dictator controls the economic and social lives of citizens, stresses nationalism at the expense o...