A leader is a person who leads or commands a group‚ organization‚ or country according to the New Oxford Dictionary. There are many people who have or could be called a leader based on this definition but that does not fully constitute them as a leader. Many people who have been called an influential leader do not deserve to be that title. There are a small number of so called leaders that have actually met all the requirements to earn the title of a leader. People like Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler
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Transactional Leader as the word implies business or exchange. Burns‚ 1978‚ opined that a transactional leader is someone who leads though social exchange. It is a process that I simply call trade by batter‚ you do this for me‚ and you get that in return. A politician can be a transactional leader when he seeks to exchange one thing for another i.e. making promises and pulling through with the promises after an election. Also most business leaders are seen as transformational when they give out incentives
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History Assignment Hitler attained power in 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors. He was the right man at the right time to take advantage of the problems that had arisen in Germany in the post war years. In the post war years of the 1920’s to the 1930’s‚ the German people had many grievances. The biggest of which was the economy. The hyperinflation of the early 1920’s‚ in January 1921 the German mark was 65 marks to the American dollar and on November 1923 it was worth 4 200 000
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and collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. Stalin believed that the Soviet domestic policy should stop being driven by capitalism and the New Economic Policy as soon as possible. In return‚ the Soviet Union would be transformed into an industrialized socialist state regardless of the cost involved in the process. The five year plan called for swift industrialization of the economy‚ with an emphasis on heavy industry. Stalin wanted to achieve a 250 percent increase in total industrial
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reasons Napoleon and Stalin are both parallel characters because they both are evil leaders achieve and maintain power and control the masses. They also were both evil‚ selfish leaders that usually dominate good people‚ which made speaking out against the government tyranny dangerous. Napoleon and stalin both make it clear that evil selfish people usually are able to dominate good people. Stalin and Trotsky Had different opinions on how to rule Russia so Troskey gets exiled. Also Stalin did not want competition
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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. He was born in Austria on April 20‚ 1889 in the small village of Braunau on the River Inn near the Germany border. Adolf Hitler’s father‚ Alois Hitler‚ was fifty-two years old when Adolf was born. Alois was very strict and worked as a customs official. Adolf Hitler’s mom‚ Klara Hitler‚ was in her twenties a when she gave birth to Adolf. In the first thirty years of Adolf Hitler’s life‚ he failed at most of the things he did. Adolf Hitler was
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hitler History Intro In 1933 Field marshal Hindenburg‚ the president of Germany‚ established a cabinet with Adolf Hitler as chancellor and other Nazis and nationalists in positions of power. This followed after von Scheichers government failed to conciliate centre and left political interests. Hitler ’s rise to power was a consequence of a number of contributing factors‚ including resentment at the loss of World War One‚ the weaknesses in the Weimar republic exploited by using propaganda‚ the
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Mussolini and Hitler were great friends and allies. Hitler had great admiration for Mussolini and Italy‚ he considered Italy one of the natural friends of his new Germany. He admired Italy ’s art and even stated‚ "My dearest wish would be to be able to wander about Italy as an unknown painter." (Qtd in Bosworth‚ 300) Mussolini had great respect for Hitler and was envious of the Germans success‚ he hoped to one day have as much power as Hitler. They had a very close relationship. Italian Fascism
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Adolf Hitler‚ the dictator of Nazi Germany and the man most hated by men today.There are many actions that Hitler committed unjustly and these actions lead most of the world to believe that it was he‚ Adolf Hitler‚ who forever ruined history. He was the man to fear during the Holocaust; his actions seemed clear‚ but were they? Hitler was a man that seemed to be straight forward‚ but it’s his seemingly straightforward attitude that tends to be overlooked and ignored. It’s obvious that Hitler was anti-semitic
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Understanding the Tito-Stalin Split Introduction The split between Josip Broz Tito‚ leader of Yugoslavia‚ and Joseph Stalin‚ head of the Soviet Union‚ is arguably one of the most watershed moments in Soviet history. It was a sign of a rising and powerful Yugoslavia‚ the first break in the Eastern bloc‚ and inspired a shift in Soviet policy and political thought. Focusing on the timespan from 1941 to 1948‚ I claim that‚ though the break between the two leaders was caused by a variety of factors
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