The world as it had been known was falling apart for the second time in a generation, and no one seemed capable of putting it back together. The government ordered the building of massive factories and an extensive power grid, making the U.S.S.R. xxx18 Nazism and Fascism. Even before it happened in the West, military rule took over Japan. He was exiled but returned briefly to power in the 1970s. Like Germany, Japan recovered to an extent from the effects of the Great Depression and became more militaristic in its outlook. The experimental mood of the middle of the 1920s faded when Stalin acquired unquestioned power. In western Europe, the Depression revealed that the economic and political achievements of the 1920s were not permanent.
