achieved good grades‚ and qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1926 I seized total power as a dictator and ruled Italy as II Duce‚ which is “the leader” in Italian. And I am also known as one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. Fascism is a governmental system where a dictator has complete power‚ and I used to control all industries and I can send anybody I want to jail. Now‚ let me explain what happened to me back in the good old days‚ during WWI. There was something called
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Fuehrer‚ the leader‚ he promised to bring Germany out of chaos. * In Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)‚ Hitler set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that became the plan of action for the Nazi Party. * Nazism is the German brand of fascism‚ based on extreme nationalism. * Hitler‚ who had been born in Austria‚ dreamed of uniting all German speaking people in a great German empire. * Hitler wanted to enforce racial “purification” at home. In his view‚ Germans‚ especially blue-eyed
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Despite its complete control on the public life‚ it is not like the confining‚ full time prison of the totalitarian regime‚ where the state controls the private as well as the public domain. Although they are on opposite sides of the political ladder‚ fascism (Mussolini/right wing) and communism (Lenin‚ Stalin/left wing) share a few things in common‚ 1) the rejection of liberal democracy as a substandard form of social organization‚ preferring powerful state and restricted individual
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and powerful Fascist state‚ a reputation he became keener to embrace as Hitler and the Nazi regime became more extreme in the late 1930s. However‚ Mussolini was arguably less successful in enforcing these ideas and convincing the Italian people fascism was the best thing for their country. Many of the policies were enforced at face value in order to impress foreign visitors‚ but few of such policies could truly be acknowledged as embedded in the Italian way of life. Mussolini’s domestic policies
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A Cool Million is a political novel‚ in the sense that it targets a political establishment which is corrupt and racist‚ bullying and philistine‚ but its strangeness left the political movement largely nonplussed. It is a novel of the end of the American dream. It is Candide recast for twentieth-century America‚ the destruction of an innocent by a system he simply cannot comprehend. Lem Pitkin is a simple‚ if not simple-minded‚ boy who is torn apart – literally so‚ he is systematically divested of
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Account for the “failure of democracy” in Eastern Europe (excluding the USSR) in the period 1918-1939. According to Robert A. Dahl‚ there are certain criteria that a government must meet for it to be called a democracy. Democracy must provide first of all‚ opportunities for effective participation‚ where all members of an association concerned with a certain policy ‘must have equal and effective opportunities for making their views known to the other members as to what the policy should be’
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political opponents. However‚ Mussolini’s strengths were also an important part in doing this. Mussolini was able to increase his power from 1922-1928 through his strategy‚ his ability to obtain Rule by Decree‚ the establishment of the Grand Council of Fascism and the fact that he had the support of powerful groups. He also used various violent tactics‚ which meant the Fascists had the power of the state behind them. However‚ Mussolini’s opponents were very weak. This is demonstrated in the failure of the
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The Spanish Civil War Spanish civil war began on 17 July 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists to wrest the dominated power. When progressive Popular Front government was elected in February 1936‚ Nationalists gathered to plan resistance and they were led by Francisco. The rebel force predicted that the war would end with a victory quickly and take the entire country. However‚ that was their miscalculation; the war spent much time than their expectation‚ and
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XI LIU Cultural Event Paper: Pan’s Labyrinth I like watching movies‚ and I want to learn about different cultures from different countries. So I attended the cultural event of 2012 Foreign Film Series at 7:00 pm in October 9th. I was so excited that the Art History Organization gave us a chance to watch a Spanish film called Pan’s Labyrinth. I had heard of it before‚ but I had never watched it. This film combined the fantasy world and the real world perfectly. That is to say‚ it is a film of magic
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of employment‚ interest‚ and money in 1936. * United States: Under certain circumstances‚ the democrat‚ Franklin Delano Roosevelt was able to win a landslide victory in the 1932 presidential election. The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes * Fascism In Italy * In the early 1920’s‚ Benito Mussolini established the first European
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