A broad-based popular front government was elected in Spain in February 1936. Considerable turmoil followed, however, and in July 1936 General Francisco Franco led a Fascist insurrection against the legal government. At first the Soviets, and indeed Léon Blum’s French Popular Front, advocated nonintervention.
The answer is D: totalitarian dictators rising to power. Each country listed above had a totalitarian head of state; Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini
