themes in Cottam in our day-to-day group exercises‚ class activities and lectures. In particular‚ we have studied the imposing influence of authoritarian rule on personalities. In “the Wave” we saw a group of high school students empowered through fascism/authoritarian rule‚ mobilized by a larger ideal‚ take power. In the Stanford Prison Experiment we saw how authoritarian power corrupts‚ how even the most innocent of people can be driven to do horrendous acts. Lastly‚ the “Shipwreck exercise” we examined
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oseph Stalin or Benito Mussolini? If one was alive and young back at the time of the second great war‚ which country would one choose to live in? Italy or Russia? Germany or Britain? United States or Japan? It honestly depended on the leaders. During the years of World War 2‚ there were many leaders; such as Roosevelt‚ Churchill‚ Hitler‚ and the two that were alike in many ways‚ but were also different are Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin. These two were Dictators who ruled over two different
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vested in one individual person and he personifies the State. Some writers are of the opinion that the Russian dictatorship was the dictatorship of a party while in Germany and Italy it was the dictatorship of individuals. But Nazism in Germany and Fascism in Italy were also the rule of a party‚ though they remained all through overshadowed by a single personality just as Bolshevism was in the days of Lenin and Stalin. Till yesterday‚ Khrushchev’s personality loomed large on the political horizon
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John Austin Men at War: MW 9:30 10:45 8 October 2003 Disillusionment in Hemingway ’s For Whom the Bell Tolls In the late 1930 ’s‚ Spain was in the midst of a civil war. The country had been in a state of disarray since 1931‚ when King Alfonso XIII went into voluntary exile. This was followed by a five-year power struggle between the fascists‚ led by General Francesco Franco‚ and the Republicans. This struggle became violent in the summer of 1936‚ and the war lasted until 1939‚ when
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Philip Singh Year 11 History Research Investigation Investigating Fascism: Nazi Germany‚ 1919 -‐‑ 1945 Examine the Role of fascist ideology in shaping the German nation between 1933 and 1945 _______________________________________________________________________________________! ! Throughout history there have been few‚ if any systems of government that have been able to shape a nation as the Nazi Party did to Germany between 1933 and 1945. During the Third Reich‚
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Zuri Martinez How did foreign involvement affect the outcome of the Spanish Civil War? Part A: Plan of the Investigation In this investigation‚ “How foreign involvement affected the Spanish Civil War?” will be evaluated. In this investigation the two sides that fought in the war‚ Republican and Nationalist‚ will be evaluated‚ based of success due to foreign involvement. This investigation explores both sides’ points of view on the war
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totalitarian in nature include Nazi Germany‚ Soviets during communism‚ and the Stalinist movement in particular. We will discuss the basic tenets of the governments in Germany‚ Italy‚ USSR‚ China‚ and Japan below. In Germany and Italy are similar. The fascism‚ a term which Hitler and Mussolini used with pride. Fascist government shared several characteristics‚ including extreme nationalism‚ often to the point of expansionism‚ antisocialism aimed at destroying working class movements‚ and alliances with
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“The Communists Come to Power in Hungary” Hungary is located in what is considered central Europe with its capital city‚ Budapest‚ lying towards the northern part of the country. Contemporary Hungarian history is marked with two periods of totalitarian rule. In the years of 1939-1945 Hungary was subjected to Nazi occupation and the rise of Hungary’s own fascist party‚ the Arrow Cross party. Through 1944-1950 Hungary was liberated by the Red Army and the rise of communism began to take
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this topic is George Orwell. Both of Orwell’s most famous books‚ 1984 and Animal Farm‚ are about fascist‚ all-powerful governments. Animal Farm‚ in particular‚ shows how dictatorships arise. George Orwell’s Animal Farm shows how society can fall to fascism through ignorance‚ blind trust‚ and lack of history. The first way the animal’s society fell was through ignorance. To be clear‚ simple ignorance is not the
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he has tried to persuade us with the teachings of Erasmus and Thomas Paine to Mazzini’s idea of nationalism and its effect on war‚ to Jeremy Bentham’s arguments all the way up to the twentieth century capturing the liberal thinker’s philosophy of Fascism and Communism. Throughout the book‚ he has challenged preconceived notions that have made his book persuasive about the necessity of studying war‚ so as to go into greater detail about the debates that he has introduced the reader to. One such
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