Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”). Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996‚ a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been
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The Rise of Adolf Hitler After the failure of the putsch on November 9‚ 1923 and his “one year” imprisonment‚ Adolf Hitler realized that he needed to change his approach in order to seize the power he desired. In order to overthrow the government‚ Hitler needed to use democracy. After the stock market crash in 1929‚ the notion of Hitler becoming the leader became more tempting for the Germans. Using the tragic state of the economy to rise to power‚ Hitler managed to become Chancellor in 1933. This
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Name: * Teacher: * ENG2D1 27/05/2012 Benito Mussolini‚ Founding Father of Fascism Mussolini once stated that “It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” As you would expect words like these from the mouth of Mussolini himself had been the inspirational backing to this dictator’s rain as sole leader
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Paragraph 2: Adolf Hitler was one of the worst dictators in history. He killed over six million Jewish people in the holocaust because he believed that they were a threat to the supremacy of the Aryan race. Adolf Hitler’s steps to dictatorship began in the August of 1914 when he was accepted into the German army. When Germany was defeated in 1918 he was outraged‚ as a result he decided to continue working as an officer for the military. He was assigned as an intelligence officer for the German
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Sanmiguel 2 Joseph Stalin served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Stalin assumed the leading role in Soviet politics after Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924‚ and gradually marginalized his opponents until he had become the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin was son of a cobbler‚ he studied at a seminary but was expelled for revolutionary activity in 1899. He joined an underground revolutionary
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Hitler vs Stalin Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin both shared many things in common as dictators in the 1920’s til the late 1940’s. It’s interesting to think that men who had so much in common‚ from their childhood to the way they ruled their countries‚ would actually hate each other due to their political ideology. Hitler was part of the Nationalist Party while Stalin enforced a Communist regime. Both men were immensely popular within their own country as they brought effective change‚ but
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INTRODUCTION Hitler‚ Adolf (1889-1945)‚ German political and military leader and one of the 20th century’s most powerful dictators. Hitler converted Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War II in 1939 (see Federal Republic of Germany). He made anti-Semitism a keystone of his propaganda and policies and built the Nazi Party (see National Socialism) into a mass movement. He hoped to conquer the entire world‚ and for a time dominated most of Europe and much of North Africa. He
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Source E: A historical picture taken of Mussolini and Hitler‚ emphasising their alliance and similarities in state. The picture was taken at a march where both leaders are seen to be leading the military forces. ORIGINS: Source E is a primary source‚ a historical picture found in a book called The History of World War II‚ Volume 1. The purpose of this photograph is to record a historical event. To show the two dictators joining forces as allies and leading their countries forward. This photograph
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inflation‚ riots‚ and strikes. It was then that Mussolini joined the fascist party‚ later becoming its leader. Gradually he transformed the Italian government into a dictatorship‚ which ultimately led to his downfall. Benito Mussolini’s future was crafted by how he was raised. The power
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Adolf Hitler as a Terrorist Name Institution Adolf Hitler as a Terrorist Adolf Hitler‚ the famous Germany dictator and leader of National Socialist German Workers Party‚ commonly referred to as the Nazi Party‚ lived between April 20‚ 1889 and April 30‚ 1945; almost exactly fifty-six years. For the first thirty years of his life‚ he was an obscure failure; becoming a local celebrity almost overnight before becoming a man around whom the whole world policy revolved when he became Germany’s
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