What form of government dominated Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s?
~None of the above Japan was a constitutional monarchy with a democratically elected Diet through the early thirties until the Cabinet assumed control by default. The turnout for the general election of the House of Representatives in Japan in 1930 was over 80%. Throughout the war, Japan remained a constitution democracy but in practice it was a military oligarchy. Adolph Hitler rose to party through the political process (and not a little violence – other parties, notably the KDP, employed similar tactics). Until 1933, Germany was a representative democracy under the Weimar Constitution. Hitler’s power was consolidated during the Gleichschaltung process by edicts of the elected German Parliament. The constitution was never repealed or replaced by the Third Reich, so in name and theory Germany continued to be a representative democracy although in practice it was a military dictatorship. Italy was a constitutional monarchy until 1946. However, after the 1922 March on Rome (and the inca
