Benito Mussolini: The rise‚ the fall and the reasons Contents Page * Introduction to the project: Page 2 * Introduction: Page 2 * Post WWI Italy: Page 2 * The Fascist movement: Reasons for their rise : Page 3 * The Fascist movement: The take-over: page3 * The beginning: Page 4 * The change: Page 4 * The next step: Page 5 * Mussolini and the “Empire”: Page 6 * Mussolini’s “puppet
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fascism between the wars‚ Payne (1995) described Mussolini as the most liberal of the totalitarian personalities that dominated that period. Perhaps this was a vestige of his earlier involvement with revolutionary socialism‚ or a reflection from his early years. Yet‚ the fact remains that Mussolini‚ along with Hitler‚ was an architect of fascism and of the policies that led to World War II. The intention in the following pages is to explore Mussolini ’s rise to power‚ including his childhood and youthful
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04/29/2002 Saddam vs. Stalin Since the beginning of the world‚ there has been an ongoing cycle of tyrannical leaders that have ruled their lands with an evil hand. Since the beginning of the twentieth century we have seen perhaps the deadliest dictators of them all. Stalin’s regime in the 1930’s and 1940’s in the Soviet Union and Saddam’s regime in the present day Iraq share an exceptionally strong similarity. In order to understand the similarities between Stalin and Saddam‚ we must go back
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"The Cult of True Womanhood" by Barbara Welter portrays the situation of women in the United States‚ in the nineteenth century. Where as most women write about fighting for women’s rights in this nation‚ Welter took on the initiative to write about something different. Her role in writing The Cult of True Womanhood came to be educating peoples about the life of a woman in the 19th century. Womanhood according to Welter’s article absorbed the life of domestication with the occupation of the ideal
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Adolf Hitler (Germany) Arguably the most famous dictator of all‚ Hitler took power in Germany in 1933 (despite having been born Austrian) and ruled until his suicide in 1945‚ having in the meantime started and lost World War 2. Deeply racist‚ he imprisoned millions of "enemies" in camps before executing them‚ stamped down on "degenerate" art and literature and tried to reshape both Germany and Europe to conform to an Aryan ideal. Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Soviet Union) Leader and founder of the
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Cults and Consequences Without even realizing it‚ people give their lives up to cults every day. Cults manage to convince people to join and do things they would never have done otherwise‚ ranging from boldly declaring false statements to removing themselves from society. However‚ the government almost never publicly condemns any cults‚ no matter the size or severity of them. The legality of cults is very general and often focuses only how it affects others outside of it. The devotee can start to
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is wanting control regardless of what happens. Adolf hitler‚ some time in January the president of Germany Hindenburg asked Hitler to become chancellor and lead a coalition government. German politicians thought that they could use Hitler. They were convinced that if Hitler joined a coalition they could dominate him. Then they figured out that they were wrong. Joseph Stalin‚ one of the worst tyrants. After Lenin’s death in 1924 the devious Stalin took power‚
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Matamoros Cult The Matamoros Cult is one of the most gruesome colts that has ever existed in society which was created by a very troubled man named Adolfo Constanzo. Adolfo was born on November 1‚ 1962 in Miami Florida from a Cuban immigrant mother who gave birth to him at the age of 15. His original father died when he was three years old which led for him and his mother to move to San Juan‚ Puerto Rico where she would remarry. Adolfo was a pretty well rounded kid who was baptized Catholic and
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The rise of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin was the authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union for 31 years between 1922 and his death in 1953. During this time‚ he revolutionised the Russian economy with a combination of rapid industrialisation and centralised economic collectivism‚ reforms that in some instances caused massive devastation in rural parts of the country (including the famine of 1932-1933‚ in which up to 6m people starved to death). A hugely controversial figure on the global political
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Personal Heroes In order to answer the question of how the “hero cults” enrich the religious lives of the Greeks‚ it is important to identify what a hero cult meant to the Greeks. These cults were thought to have originated with the works of Homer due to the nature of his tales portraying humans committing great acts so as to set themselves apart from the ordinary. Now even though they may have been worshiped they were not gods‚ they were said to have descended to the underworld and their rituals
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