Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum? The world looked more perilous then; perhaps it wasn't. That Depression year, 34 million Americans were out of work. One day after the 1932 Olympics began, Hitler's National Socialists won a plurality of seats in the German parliament. In 1932 Mussolini told his countrymen, "I foresee a long series of political, economic and military wars." And Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. And the opening ceremonies of the Olympics came off without a hitch...
Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in England and Clemenceau and Poincaré in France had been regular contributors and Mussolini soon became one. Our New York office suggested getting, since we could not have Hitler, who had turned us down, the number-two Nazi. This had led me to call Göring...
...Americans defied the mood that swept the United States after World War 1. Both the American and European governments ignored the Spanish Republic's plea for aid even though the newly born democracy was being challenged by the fascist front. Francisco Franco, backed with military support from Hitler and Mussolini, struggled to defeat the Spanish peasants as they fought to save their democracy. During the Spanish Civil War Hitler had his chance to test his newly created weapons and for the first time in history, civilian dwellings were bombed. In his painting filled with twisted images, "Guernica," Pablo Picasso captures...
...would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adr dressed the Empire and the U. S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier Benito Mussolini to use his good offices with the Führer...
...enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand an additional two years of preparation. The time is often well spent: if a student graduates from a grande école, he is virtually assured...