In the 1760's Great Britain started imposing taxes on the colonies to pay off the French and Indian War. Colonists who didn't want to pay the taxes would smuggle goods in.
Feudalism was a help to Western Europeans for the flowing reasons: Feudalism helped protect communities from the violence and warfare that broke out after the fall of Rome and the collapse of strong central government in Western Europe. Feudalism secured Western Europe's society and kept out powerful invaders.
Two of the most significant totalitarian governments that existed following WWI were in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, since both of these governments were "fascist" and were 2/3 of the "Axis" powers during World War II.
