Second World War World War II was one of the greatest struggles humanity has ever seen. This Second World War caused many lives to be lost‚ damaged personal properties and was expensive‚ for a great deal of money was required to maintain a country’s military strength. The numbers for those that have passed‚ been wounded or gone missing during the war could never be calculated precisely; though it has been estimated that more than 55 million lives perished. Many historians have traced the causes of
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Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn’t always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti‚ which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan.<br><br>Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March of 1919.<br><br>"This was a nationalistic‚ anti liberal‚ and anti socialist movement. This movement attracted mainly the lower middle class."1
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dedicated leader in the fight against fascism. When Berlin and Moscow announced on Aug. 20‚ 1939 the signing of a trade treaty and newspaper dispatches began hinting about a further strategic alliance‚ communist spokesmen denounced such speculation as fascist in inspiration. They had every reason to disbelieve such a story because‚ after all‚ the Comintern line the world over was to seek a united front with the democratic West against fascism in the name of "collective security." Ignored was the editorial
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conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country‚ a bloody civil war ensued‚ fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists‚ as the rebels were called‚ received aid from fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Republicans received aid from the Soviet Union‚ as well as from International Brigades‚ composed of volunteers from Europe and the United States. The war was an outcome of a polarization of Spanish life and politics
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Farriol’s association caused his family to be ripped apart and Andreu fatherless. Both stories explore how being on the wrong side can derail life and destroy families. However‚ in Pa negre‚ Villaronga also provides insight into what was appropriate for Fascist society post-war. Gay people were put into camps‚ and others were told the camps were for ‘sick’ people. It showed the lengths that Franco would go to keep society the way that he preferred. However‚ Villaronga does not show any of the physical
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Section VIII: The Great Depression Political Analysis of the Great Depression It is no doubt that the Great Depression of late 1920’s to the early 1930’s had a dramatic effect that not only affected the united States of America‚ but the whole world. However‚ it is rare to find historians that analyze the Depression from a global stand point. Often‚ it is analyzed from a national standpoint‚ one in particular‚ the United States of America. In the both excerpts “Into the Economic Abyss” and “Roosevelt
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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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with the social and economic problems Italy was going through during the post-war years. As the new leader of Italy‚ Mussolini knew he had to solve these problems‚ one way or another‚ so that this success would bring more popularity to him and the fascists. Mussolini ’s main economic aim was to bring Italy’s economy to a somehow same level as France and Britain to threaten them and the other great industrial powers. After 1925‚ he launched a series of “Battles”. The battle for grain doubled grain
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Lion King to be degrading to some races with inappropriate themes. Matt Roth‚ another scholar‚ argues in his article The Lion King A Short History of Disney-Fascism‚ that Disney supports monarchism and fascist themes due to the story line of The Lion King. “The Lion King echoes all of its fascist themes: hatred of gays‚ communists‚ and minorities‚ and the glorification of violent male initiation and feminine domesticity all set in a bucolic suburban environment under the strong leadership of an all-male
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governments are defined by a government that stays in power through propaganda‚ media‚ restriction of speech‚ mass surveillance‚ and fear. In the early 1900s‚ totalitarian governments were on the rise. Examples of totalitarianism in Europe existed in fascist Italy‚ Nazi Germany‚ and Soviet Russia. George Orwell‚ a British author‚ recognized the horrors of totalitarian governments and wrote 1984 as a warning against totalitarian rule. Orwell utilizes symbols such as Big Brother and Goldstein‚ telescreens
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