Major Essay Part Two: The Argument The year is 1948‚ Joseph Stalin has just appointed the leader of North Korea as Kim Il-Sung‚ and since that time the same family has been in power. Kim Il-Sung is the man who is responsible for North Korea’s drive to become a nuclear power to this day. It was his demand for nuclear weapons that pushed the regime in its search. Flash-forward‚ it’s 1994‚ North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Il‚ Il-Sung’s son‚ announces it’s intentions to retract from
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the rebels in the streets. The French government was saved‚ but they decided to form a new government called the Directory. Under the new government Napoleon was made commander of the French army in Italy. During this campaign the French realized how smart Napoleon was. He developed a tactic that worked very efficiently. He would cut the enemy’s army in to two parts‚ then
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Why did Hitler rise to power in 1933? When The First World War finally ended on November 11 1918; Germany was “crowned” the losers. It was a devious time and everyone was depressed which enabled some extremist’s parties to gain support from the citizens of Germany. One of parties was the Nazis with their leader Hitler. Hitler’s rise to power cannot be attributed to one event‚ but a mixture of factors including events happening outside Germany‚ the strengths of the Nazi party‚ and the weaknesses of
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In reading the documents considering the Evidence: Ideologies of the Axis Powers‚ the rise of Fascism within Europe starts to be understood. When addressing Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany their separate identities start to form the ideals that allowed for Fascism to take hold of each country. What these documents express most clearly is that all of the European nations that formed the Axis Powers had different reasons to allow for this political revolution. Eventually these ideals
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used in the rise to and maintenance of power by Hitler and Mussolini Mussolini and Hitler both came to power during the interwar years. Both were fascist Dictators who did not only share similar aspects of ideology but also in the way they accumulated power. This essay will examine the conditions in which both dictators were allowed to emerge and grow and will also consider the differences in particular methods and manipulations used by the two leaders and their parties to obtain power. After
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contributed to Stalin becoming the next leader are plentiful and can mostly be divided into Stalin’s own strengths and the weaknesses of his most important rival‚ Trotsky. All the factors can also be linked in one way or another‚ as shall be seen in this answer. One of the most important reasons why Stalin won the power struggle is that he used his high positions in the Communist party and the power that came with it to his advantage. Several factors fall under this category. Firstly is how Stalin used
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Cleopatra at the battle of Actium‚ before he became the first ruler of rome instead of taking the caesar tradition of making himself dictator he only wanted to become ruler. Augustus’s father founded the Principate in 27 bc (the ruler has power until death)‚Augustus’ s power was hidden behind a constitutional form. His name means “ lofty and serene “ and now he has a month named after him (august). After that he had the roman army under his complete controlled. While he was home he was a helper of Virgil
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In the 1930’s era dictators were able to gain popularity and then great power very quickly. A few dictators who went about that path include Hitler and Mussolini. Both men who had extraordinary power and very similar ideas. One reason they came into power being the financial situation in the 1930’s‚ one of the worst economic downturns‚ which occurred because of WW1. Considering they had quite recently come out of WW1‚ most government money went towards the war. The Treaty of Versailles additionally
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contrast two of them‚ Fransisco Franco and Benito Mussolini. So let’s jump right is with Franco. Franco was a Spanish general who‚ after the Spanish government began to fail in 1936‚ took up arms and rebelled against the government. It took him three years‚ and the help of other famous Fascists such as Hitler and Mussolini‚ but in 1939‚ he became the dictator of Spain‚ or El Caudillo (the leader) as most people referred to him as. Mussolini’s rise to power was a bit different from Franco’s‚ but it remained
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Joseph Stalin is an incredibly important figure in the history of Russia. During his reign of terror‚ Russia developed into a formidable world power. As he worked to modernize Russia‚ his use of violence against the people led to an impressive death toll. Despite this‚ Stalin’s carefully maintained public image made him beloved amongst many of his people. Before Stalin’s rise to power‚ Russia was not industrialized and was based mostly on peasant farmers. Stalin realized the need to Russia’s industry
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