Curated playlist
Fascist states
- Federal State of AustriaHow did a government that resisted Hitler end up handing Austria to him?
- Vichy FranceIn July 1940, French lawmakers voted 569 to 80 to give Marshal Pétain absolute power. Vichy France began that day.
- Kingdom of RomaniaRomania's parliament crowned a German prince as its first king in 1881. The Kingdom of Romania lasted until 1947.
- Slovak Republic (1939–1945)Slovakia's parliament voted unanimously to break from Czechoslovakia on the 14th of March 1939.
- Fascist ItalyMussolini once called antisemitism a "German vice." Fascist Italy passed racial laws in 1938 under German pressure.
- Empire of JapanThe Empire of Japan abolished its own samurai class. That later brought conflict with the samurai.
- Kingdom of GreeceThe Kingdom of Greece began with three men meeting in Odesa in 1814. They plotted revolt against Ottoman rule.
- Kingdom of ItalyOn the 26th of October 1860, at the town of Teano, the revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi shook the hand of Victor Emmanuel II and hailed him as King of Italy. Garibaldi was a republican. With that gesture he gave up his hopes for an…
- Nazi GermanyNazi Germany's leaders promised it would last a thousand years, but it lasted twelve. It ended in May 1945.
- Italian Social RepublicHitler threatened to destroy Milan, Genoa and Turin unless Mussolini led a new Fascist state.