The relevance of Hitler and the Nazis Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in the 1930s is in several ways reflected in Gilead: • Hitler promised his followers a new Germany with a stress on family values. However‚ this rapidly turned into oppression of any who did not share his vision and the slaughter of those who were not of the ‘pure’ Aryan race he demanded • He encouraged the fanatical adulation of the young through the Hitler Youth movement - a situation echoed in Atwood’s Gilead when she
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Stalin and the Struggle for Power The Communist Party in the 1920’s‚ Stalin’s Rise to Power and the Defeat of His Rivals. When Lenin died he left no clear successor to lead the Communist Party. Lenin’s Testament criticised all the leading candidates e.g. he described Stalin as ‘not being able to use power with sufficient caution’ and Trotsky for ‘excessive self assurance’. A group of leaders emerged; a ‘collective leadership’. By 1929 one of these leaders‚ Stalin had become a dominant force
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To what extent did Stalin rise to power because of his cunning personality? Explain your answer. [12m] Stalin rose in power because of his cunning and manipulative personality. He used propaganda to manipulate the images he created for himself and Trotsky as he wanted to get more popularity and support from the people because he wanted to portray himself as the legitimate successor and destroy Trotsky’s positive image as Lenin’s chosen successor. Stalin was cunning enough to prevent
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banned. Families received a range of new benefits under Stalin. There was a free health service for all‚ there were holidays with pay for many workers‚ and an insurance scheme against accidents at work. To encourage women to go back to work after giving birth‚ almost all factories set up crèches to care for their children. However‚ women still faced discrimination in the workplace‚ usually occupying the lower positions Soviet women under Stalin were the first generation of women able to give birth
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Adolf Hitler (April 20th 1889 – April 30th 1945) Adolf Hitler was born in Austria‚ on April 20th‚ 1889 Moved to Germany when he was 3 years old. Clashed frequently with his father He became detached and introverted after the death of his younger brother in 1900 His father did not approve of his interest in fine art rather than business Showed an early interest in German nationalism This nationalism would become the motivating force of Hitler’s life. Moved to Vienna and worked as a casual
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Do you agree with the view that the main effect of increasing media coverage of the Royal family from the 1970s onwards was to damage the image of the monarchy? As British society went through a massive paradigm shift‚ the media took into account these changes and the sources or entertainment greatly changed in nature. It began with political figures being subject to media scrutiny and eventually the prying eyes of the British media focused on the Royal family: however the effects are questionable
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that took place in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933‚ that millions of Ukrainians died of starvation. This was the deliberate mass starvation of an entire country that was carried out under the orders of one of the most brutal leaders in all of history‚ Josef Stalin. The Holodomor means “murder by hunger” that is what the Ukrainians called it by‚ and it would leave about ten million people dead. About seven million of these people actually died from starvation. And many more were executed on the spot or they
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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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How to prepare for the DBQ: | | | | |Preparation Work: | | | |6 Cs- Teaching students how to analyze sources.
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11.30.10 The U.S.S.R. Under Stalin 1924-1941 Paper 1 Questions & Answers 1)a) Evidence in Source D that suggests that Stalin’s motive for the mass arrests of the late 1930s was to obtain slave labor is that “the mass arrest of the late 1930s may have been carried out to satisfy Stalin’s desire for slave labor‚” and “more prison laborers were urgently needed.” b) In Source D‚ “absurd inefficiency” means that the overpopulation of the prison laborers in the camps made them disorganized
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