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<\/h3>\nFrancisco Solano Lopez (Paraguay, 1862-1870)<\/h3>\n\n\nAlthough he became a revered figure in Paraguay decades after his death, Paraguayan president and military leader Francisco Solano Lopez unwisely provoked neighboring Brazil and Argentina<\/a> by meddling\u00a0in a\u00a0civil war in Uruguay in the mid-1860s.<\/p>\nAfter that war concluded, Brazil, Argentina, and the winning faction in Uruguay secretly agreed to a plan in which they would annex half of Paraguay’s territory.<\/p>\n
Lopez rejected the peace terms offered by the “triple alliance,” incurring a full-on invasion.<\/p>\n
What followed was a devastating conflict in which an overmatched Lopez conscripted child soldiers, executed hundreds of his deputies (including his own brother), incurred steep territorial losses, and triggered an eight-year Argentine\u00a0military occupation.<\/p>\n
By the time of Lopez’s death in battle in 1870 and the war’s subsequent end, Paraguay’s population\u00a0had plunged from an estimated 525,000 to 221,000<\/a>, and only 29,000 males over the age of 15 were left alive.<\/p>\n![\"jozef-tiso-slovakia-1939-1945\"](\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/jozef-tiso-slovakia-1939-1945.png?w=620\")
<\/h3>\nJozef Tiso (Slovakia, 1939-1945)<\/h3>\n\n\nA Catholic priest who led Slovakia’s fascist moment, Tiso was in charge of one of Nazi Germany’s numerous satellite regimes for almost the entirety of World War II.<\/p>\n
Although arguably a less energetic fascist<\/a> than the leaders of comparable Nazi puppet regimes, Tiso led a brutal crackdown after a 1944 anti-fascist rebellion.<\/p>\nHe also either facilitated or had first-hand knowledge of the deportation of the vast majority of\u00a0the country’s Jews to Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n
At the time, Slovakia had a Jewish population of over 88,000. However, by the conflict’s conclusion, nearly 5,000 were left in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"dme-sztjay-hungary-1944\"](\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/dme-sztjay-hungary-1944.png?w=620\")
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Although he became a revered figure in Paraguay decades after his death, Paraguayan president and military leader Francisco Solano Lopez unwisely provoked neighboring Brazil and Argentina<\/a> by meddling\u00a0in a\u00a0civil war in Uruguay in the mid-1860s.<\/p>\n After that war concluded, Brazil, Argentina, and the winning faction in Uruguay secretly agreed to a plan in which they would annex half of Paraguay’s territory.<\/p>\n Lopez rejected the peace terms offered by the “triple alliance,” incurring a full-on invasion.<\/p>\n What followed was a devastating conflict in which an overmatched Lopez conscripted child soldiers, executed hundreds of his deputies (including his own brother), incurred steep territorial losses, and triggered an eight-year Argentine\u00a0military occupation.<\/p>\n By the time of Lopez’s death in battle in 1870 and the war’s subsequent end, Paraguay’s population\u00a0had plunged from an estimated 525,000 to 221,000<\/a>, and only 29,000 males over the age of 15 were left alive.<\/p>\n A Catholic priest who led Slovakia’s fascist moment, Tiso was in charge of one of Nazi Germany’s numerous satellite regimes for almost the entirety of World War II.<\/p>\n Although arguably a less energetic fascist<\/a> than the leaders of comparable Nazi puppet regimes, Tiso led a brutal crackdown after a 1944 anti-fascist rebellion.<\/p>\n He also either facilitated or had first-hand knowledge of the deportation of the vast majority of\u00a0the country’s Jews to Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n At the time, Slovakia had a Jewish population of over 88,000. However, by the conflict’s conclusion, nearly 5,000 were left in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\nJozef Tiso (Slovakia, 1939-1945)<\/h3>\n
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