In the last few moments of his life‚ Adolf Hitler along with his wife Eva Braun‚ whom he just married less than two days prior on April 29‚ 1945 in the late morning‚ were held up in his bunker beneath Berlin. Hitler was briefed about the assassination of Mussolini‚ the Italian dictator (“Adolf Hitler Biography”) Afraid of being captured by enemy troops‚ Hitler and Eva both swallowed hydrogen cyanide capsules. He took a precautionary measure and shot himself in the head with his own pistol‚ a Walther
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The people in a totalitarian society are persistently fed false information and are punished if they do not exhibit agreement with that information. Propaganda is a tool used by these governments in order to promote anything they want. Propaganda is primarily spread through the media‚ and is also presented to large organized groups to increase its impact. According to the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia‚ “The North Korean government subjects its population to intensive ideological indoctrination and
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The totalitarian government of Oceania relates to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial adm requires complete subservience to the state. George Orwell’s 1984 describes the life of Winston Smith who is ruled by the dictatorial government of Oceania. The government enforces an oppressive and unrestricted rule on the people by controlling their emotions‚ actions‚ and essentially their lives. Winston was pulled in conflicting directions between his strict allegiance to the Party
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Hitler and Mussolini were very similar since both shared the same motives for gaining power and the Fascist belief in absolute control by one supreme leader. After World War I‚ Italy was upset that they didn’t get the land they were promised and Germany was angered by the reparations that they faced. In Benito Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism he wrote‚ “The Italian people will rise again to create a new Roman Empire‚ and once again the Italian people will lead the world.” Hitler hoped to develop
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Totalitarian Governments (Arendt Views) What is a totalitarian government? Totalitarianism is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to it’s authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private live wherever feasible. Totalitarian government is run by a sort of dictator that has immense power over the state and the people who are under him. “A totalitarian society is usually ruled by a dictator‚ and there is very little or no freedom. In totalitarianism‚ the government
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I. Quote a. “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good distance in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us.” b. This quote from the excerpt of Joseph Stalin‚ “On Soviet Industrialization Speech to Industrial Managers‚” February 1931 is significant because Stalin talks about how they will not have the chance of rising to the top and keeping their independence if they lower their tempo at all. He states that they are extremely behind other countries that
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Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government in 1922. Under Mussolini‚ Italy turned into totalitarian government where political rivals were killed or quieted to continue their supreme reign. This made numerous things happen to Italy’s social and monetary issues. The first of these issues was the brought down expectation for everyday comforts of the Italian populous. The general population lost their workers right and their wages were brought down by the administration. Mussolini recognized
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high school in 1905 at the age of 16‚ Hitler travelled to Vienna to explore all the arts‚ music‚ and old-European culture that the city held. However‚ it was the city’s magnificent architecture that caught his attention and Hitler quickly developed an interest in becoming an architect. A promising artist in high school‚ Hitler decided to enroll in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in October of 1907. Although he had felt confident about the entrance exams‚ Hitler was soon denied entry to the academy’s
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for the next 16 years‚ a few individuals had been brewing up other ideas. From the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1922 until the dropping of the second A-bomb on Nagasaki‚ Japan on August 9‚ 1945‚ the world would never look the
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Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin is one of the most well known dictators. He is known to be the savior of Russia. He was also known to be a cruel leader that didn’t let anyone get in his way. This lead Stalin to be feared by many people in Russia. Stalin was the dictator that ruled over communist Russia in 1928. In his time of leading this totalitarian country‚ he accomplished many good and terrible things. Stalin was born December 18‚ 1879 in Gori‚ Georgia. Growing up Stalin was mistreated by others
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