Rise of Dictatorship in Germany, Italy and Japan

The three most important dictators to arise inEurope in the decade or so after the First World War were Benito Mussolini in Italy, Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler in Germany. These men rose to power essentially because their countries had in some way been made unhappy by the outcome of that war.

Rise of European Dictators. point of a dictatorship is to have absolute governmental control. The type of dictatorship used in Nazi Germany and the USSR was totalitarian dictatorship, which was a much stricter type of dictatorship.