strengthen its control within Russia alongside promoting the spread of socialism and world revolution by the peasantry. Yet‚ with Lenin’s death and Stalin’s rise to power‚ there seemed to be a shift by which the party and country was operated. Indeed‚ by 1930 the Soviet Union was seen very differently both internally and outside of its borders. Some may see this as a ‘second revolution’ and in a sense‚ it is somewhat justified due to
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What Year was Troy destroyed and how was it destroyed? The city of troy was officially abandon at 500 AD‚ the city was destroyed due to the Romans and the sophisticated and well know plan know as the Trojan Horse. The Trojan Horse was a invention/plan the one of the Greek Generals came up with to destroy the city because every other plan failed due to Troy’s advanced and strong defense around the city. The basics of the plan was the Romans leave a large wooden horse outside the walls of Troy and
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How successful was Napoleon III’s domestic policy? In assessing the success of Napoleon III’s domestic policy it is essential to consider his aims‚ which were in terms of politics to retain his autocratic power and in terms of economics to ensure economic recovery in France. He was undoubtedly successful in these aims initially‚ he gained significant popularity through plebiscites and increased prosperity be rejuvenating Paris and extending the railways. However‚ toward the end of his reign in
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June 9‚ 2013 Dustin 1 Amistad: The title of the film was “Amistad” and the film was released in 1997 on the territory of the United States of America.The historical period‚ portrayed in the film‚ is the year of 1839. It was the year when a terrible rebellion took place on board the Spanish ship La Amistad‚ which transported salves. It was the time when the slavery was abolished in the North and the South of the United States of America was discontented for they desperately “needed” slaves to work
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The Wall Street Crash was the main reason Hitler got into power. Do you agree? Even before the Great War‚ Hitler had an extremist mind set about politics and the world around him. He carried this dream until he joined the German workers party (Nazi party); from this point on‚ he used the Nazi party to reach the position of chancellor within the Reichstag. Through the use of the idealistic policies of the Nazi party‚ and using global economic climate and world affairs to finally reach the position
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To what extent was Nazi Germany a totalitarian state Germany was a totalitarian state‚ however‚ only to an extent due to differing perspectives Nazi Germany did not fit the universal criteria of what constitutes totalitarianism. It is unarguably necessary that Germany was ran by a single party‚ had absolute control over mass communication & media‚ had a systematic terror & police control as well as total control over the army. However‚ many have argued that Nazi Germany was not totalitarian as it
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Philosopher Thomas Hobbes argued that government was best if it was autocratic‚ an all-powerful sovereign. To understand Hobbes’s reasoning‚ it is crucial to first understand his view on man’s conditions in an anarchic environment. In Hobbes’ perspective‚ man’s life in the state of nature was “solid‚ poor‚ brutish‚ and short” because man is selfish and violent. Without institutions to provide security‚ man was always in a constant state of war. These anarchic conditions compel men to look after
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Was the Second World War primarily caused by the appeasement policy? The appeasement policy is adopted first by the Britain and then by France to avoid war with the aggressors‚ namely Germany‚ Italy and Japan during the interwar period in 1930s. The policy is to give way and fulfill the aggressors’ demands as much as possible‚ like what historian Paul Kennedy defines: the appeasement is “a policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying the grievance through international
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“To what extent was the U.S. justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped or not‚ were ones of the man-made disasters that occurred on August 6 1945‚ and August 9 1945 respectively. The launching of the atomic bomb has numerous opinions and aspects on whether United States of America should be justified for launching atomic bombs on those cities or not. The essay question for our class is‚ “To what extent was the United States
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his life‚ was irrefutably evil. However he was not born with this attitude‚ nor the racial prejudices he is hardheartedly remembered for. Born in 1889 Braunau‚ Austria‚ to Klara Hitler and the customs official Alois Schickelgruber‚ Adolf was the first child of the union. Klara was Schickelgruber’s third wife‚ and of Schickelgruber’s children from previous marriages two of the three died in childhood‚ while the third died still an infant. Adolf’s mother ’showered’ him with love. This was in contrast
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