Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Franco all used fear to help consolidate their power. Why do you think that their strategies worked?

Due to the ending of the first world war, everyone (citizen wise) was seeking reassurance from their leaders. Between the world wars, fascism was also becoming heavily prevalent. This political ideology relied solely on country nationalism, political and very manipulative brainwashing of the public, and fear due to the mass want of not having a second world war.

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the first two years of american revolution was not very encouraging for the patriots since the british were far superior in sea power, arms and troops.