In central Europe...Germany was one of the major powers to surface under the authority of Adolph Hitler, 1932-33.The Brownshirts had sucessfully gained control of the provisional German government after years of hardship and a broken economy after World war 1...Italy was already under the ruling party of Mussolini and his regime in the early to mid twenties, When the Third Reich came to power in Germany, a series of mutual military agreements between Germany and Italy were formed in the early to mid thirties.... Franco was engulfed in a civil war in Spain during the 1930's,Adolph Hitler tested some of his new military aircraft in Spain during the conflict,which only added to the misery of Franco and his government at that time.