  We study the alignment of the vacuum in fermionic gauge theories with
enhanced global symmetries by adding a small explicit mass term. Specifically
we center our investigations around the theories with two Dirac fermions in a
real or pseudoreal representation of the gauge group. We find that as we vary
the explicit fermion masses $m_U$ and $m_D$ there are critical points where the
system makes a discontinuous jump from one vacuum to another. This occurs when
one of the fermion masses vanish. Hence there are four unique vacua depending
only on the sign of $m_U$ and $m_D$. Due to the enhanced global symmetry
nothing is therefore expected to happen at the point $m_U=-m_D$ where, on the
other hand, theories with fermions in a complex representation of the gauge
group are expected to develop a CP violating (Dashen) phase.
