The
political unrest and economic instability of the 1920s and the 1970s
provided an opportunity for extreme political parties to blame
more-moderate political parties or the ruling government for either not
doing enough to solve the country’s issues or for causing the problems
in the first place. In both 1920s Germany and 1970s Cambodia, these
circumstances allowed these authoritarian groups, the Nazis and the
Khmer Rouge, to climb to power.
