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    Hitler‚ Mussolini‚ and Stalin are all infamous dictators between WWI and WWII. They were welcomed by their people as they were looking for hope. They wanted their countries to be powerful‚ and get out of the great depression. The citizens of these countries were hungry and hopeless‚ and were seeking positive changes. All of these dictators promised a better future‚ however they had evil ideas with the intentions to rule as a dictatorship.These dictators were able to come to power because they acknowledged

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    Cold War Terms Yalta Conference Who: Allied leader‚ the Bid Three (Stalin‚ Roosevelt‚ Churchill) When: February 1945 What: They met at Yalta to plan what would happen to Europe after Germany’s defeat - Stalin agreed to enter war with Japan after Germany lost. - The USSR’s border moved further into Poland. - Germany would be divided into four zones: American‚ French‚ British and Soviet. - The Big Three: Stalin‚ Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to hunt down all war criminals and join the new

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    place between 1932 and 1933. The famine occurred in the Ukraine after the original leader Vladimir Lenin died and Joseph Stalin took control. When Stalin took control‚ he started new farming policies in which private farmland was ordered to give a large portion of their crops to the government. This made private farmers angry which started a revolt. In response to these revolts‚ Stalin ordered all farmland and livestock to be seized and no profit given to the farmers who owned the land. This was the start

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    dictator Stalin or “The Man of Steel” killed over 4 to 10 million people in his reign as dictator. While‚ Stalin was dictator he used his power to kill or to used people for forced labor. Stalin killed millions of innocent people for power‚ fear‚ and intimidation but‚ some people thought he was a hero. First‚ Stalin was known for some terrible things. He was a dictator that killed innocent people. Stalin turned peasants into a military superpower killing 20 million innocent people (“Joseph Stalin‚ 2009”)

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    take over of Joseph Stalin in 1928 from Vladimiar Lenin started a revolution it led many of the soviet peoples lives to be changed in many circumstances that were not as they would have hoped. Life in the Soviet Union was harsh and firm on almost all of the population of the large country known as the Soviet Union. Stalin was pushing his five-year plan with a hard iron fist. Even with ruling of the iron fist people of Soviet Union bought more and more into the plan of Stalin. Stalin to the soviets was

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    Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were two of the most evil men in history‚ responsible for countless atrocities. They had many similarities as well. Both men committed genocide to further their political agenda‚ massively improved the militaries of their respective countries‚ had their own different groups of secret police and spies‚ and finally they were both tyrannical totalitarian dictators. Despite sharing many similarities‚ their government structure and political philosophies were very different

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    Joseph Stalin was the leader of Soviet Russia from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953. Though Hitler and Stalin never met or even spoke on the telephone‚ their lives and fates were inextricably linked. Though each loathed and feared the other‚ there was much Hitler and Stalin had in common. Both were born into humble backgrounds‚ their early lives shaped by destitution and impoverishment. As young men‚ both were drawn to radical political movements. Both became revolutionaries and unlikely national

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    Russia 1905-41 1. Compare the characters and beliefs of Lenin and Stalin  Stalin and Lenin were similar to an extent in their character but had many contrasting qualities. Lenin had great leadership skill in running the Bolshevik party‚ he was organised and his never-ending determination and dedication was rivalled by none other‚ however to say that Stalin was not hardworking would be incorrect he was calculating and very determined their work ethic

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    familiar to the country Russia. Orwell goes beyond to show secret correlations to Stalin and the Revolution in Russia. The books expresses the connection between the novel and Russia from the points by Stalin being represented as a pig named Napoleon‚ the farm trials‚ and lastly from the rules that were made on the farm. Firstly‚ in the novel‚ it is clearly shown that the pig‚ Napoleon‚ is the same exact person named Stalin from Russia who had the same effect on his country‚ or farm in the book. Orwell

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    WWII World War II was by far the most destructive and horrific war fought. The war started in 1939 and lasted until 1945. No previous war could match the death and carnage seen by survivors and veterans. WWI was largely responsible for the conditions that had set up WWII‚ but the advanced weapons‚ the demoralization of humanity and the will to destroy showed the 20-year difference. The war included many nations‚ but the main Allies included Great Britain‚ the U.S.‚ the Soviet Union‚ China‚

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