far do you agree that Mussolini’s foreign policy in the years 1933-41 was a complete failure? ’I want to make Italy great‚ respected and feared’ said Mussolini in 1925. Mussolini’s foreign policy included a number of positive and negative factors which all contributed to the rise‚ and the ultimately to the downfall‚ of both Mussolini and the Italian empire. Mussolini was intent on revising the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles and was very keen to show off Italy’s power. He felt that Italy had
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after he came into power in 1933. Knowledge of Hitler and his party aims is also essential. METHODS/STRATEGIES: * After Hindenburg died in 1934‚ Hitler became president and abolished the title of Reich President. He wished to be known as the Fuhrer – an all-embracing‚ total authority. Hitler had clear ideas about the leader principle who would replace the democratic system with an authoritarian state. * Creating the Hitler Myth: after they came to power there was a deliberate effort to promote
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Mexico trying to persuade Mexico to go against the United States (foreign) - A German secret telegram‚ that had a coded message from the German Foreign Secretary‚ Alfred Zimmermann‚ to the German minister in Mexico City. This pretty much told the minister to propose an alliance with Mexico‚ offering Mexico the territories lost in 1848 to the USA. The British intercepted the message and gave a copy to the US ambassador. After the US State Department released the message on 1 March 1917 ‚ even as
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Beginning in October 1939‚ Adolf Hitler secretly approved an experimental program which by intent and in practice sterilized and removed “undesirable” citizens from the German population. These “undesirables” were German‚ Jewish‚ or Gypsy patients who were in most cases handicapped or deemed incurable. It is estimated that the Nazi regime was responsible for over 400‚000 sterilizations and over 70‚000 deaths from euthanasia from 1933-1945. Despite the fact that many of the “undesirables” were part
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“The Nazi rise to power was essentially linked to the Great Depression” (Holtfriech). To what extent do you agree with this statement? After all the hard work put in by the Nazis over several years in order to access rise to power‚ President Hindenburg finally appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany on 30th January 1933. Many historians have argued about how this all came about‚ however one in particular‚ Holtfriech‚ believes their rise to power was all due to the Great Depression‚ which was a world-wide
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group‚ or faction having the most power by virtue of its larger representation or electoral strength. Majority in the sense of government does not refer to the greatest number of people‚ most of the time. The government consists of a few powerful individuals that control society and the population. Thoreau uses the example of the Mexican war to show that the standing government is used by a few individuals to carry out acts that are not always supported by the people. Thoreau says that the actual majority
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Describe the way the Nazi government set about providing jobs for the unemployed in Germany after 1933. In 1929 a worldwide depression began due to the Wall Street Crash. This hit Germany particularly hard as the agreements of the treaty of Versailles‚ made post World War I‚ placed war guilt upon Germany and had meant that they owed countries like Britain and France a great deal of money. Unable to pay this money Germany agreed a plan called the Dawes plan with the USA‚ meaning that the USA would
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by the Weimar Republic ? Answer i) Weimar was not received of its own people largely because of the term it was forced to accept after Germany was defeated at the end of First World War. ii) The socialist catholics and democrats who supported it were mockingly called the november criminals. iii) The Weimar Republic crushed the uprising of soviet of workers with help of war veteran organization called free corps. iv) There was economic crisis of 1923. The prices of goods soared
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Alexis Arocha Orient Building: Room 136 Time: 4pm- 5:50pm Professor Casey Hitler and the Holocaust In the year of 1933‚ Adolf Hitler took power and the holocaust occurred. The vigorous dictator had a set of ideas and goals that took place across Europe. Hitler’s ideologies consisted of Germany and Austria having superiority over the Jewish population‚ whom were accused for all the issues Germany faced. Hitler “believed that only by waging a war of conquest against Russia could the German nation
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What has been achieved by prosecuting Nazis alleged to have committed crimes against the Jews? "While fighting for victory the German soldier will observe the rules for chivalrous warfare. Cruelties and senseless destruction are below his standard" ‚ or so the commandment printed in every German Soldiers paybook would have us believe. Yet during the Second World War thousands of Jews were victims of war crimes committed by Nazi ’s‚ whose actions subverted the code of conduct they claimed to
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