1)What factors make fascism a unique political philosophy? 2)How did Mussolini gain power and establish a dictatorship in Italy? 3) Explain how the Weimar Republic collapsed and Hitler gained power. 4) What was the security system keeping the peace after the First World War and why did it fail? 5) What conflict started World War II? 6)  Why did Britain and France conduct a policy of "appeasement" of the dictators in the 1930s?  7) Did their motives change over time? 8) Describe the sequence of crises from 1931 to 1939 which set the scene for the Second World War and show the role that appeasement played.​