"Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian Socialism, the materialist conception of history of human civilization can be explained simply through the conflict of interests among the various social groups and by the change and development in the means and instruments of production" . ... During many years, Italy was faced with false, disloyal leaders, and Mussolini came and augmented Italy and became the spokesman of a nation betrayed by its leaders, who could only make Italy dependent on Germany and Austria . "He was the leader who succeeded where his mentors had so lamentably failed" , Muss...

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" (Lindqvist) History proves otherwise, genocide has been a part of German military action before the Holocaust began in 1933. ... Italy joined the war in 1914 with hopes of gaining Austrian territory when Germany fell, well Germany did surrender but Italy never got its share of land. ... Even though Italy was on the winning side of the war they felt as though they lost. Benito's dictatorship inspired Hitler which allowed him to masterfully take over German politics changing history forever. ... History is a way to understand our future and being afraid of our past makes us ignorant...

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Were weak Italy and Germany. ... Mussolini called it a mutilated victory and promised a strong Italy and a new Roman Empire. ... Fascist leaders appealed to the sense of humiliation felt by the Germans and Italians. ... Although Italy had been democratic since 1870 it had failed to take root. ... In Germany there was a history of strong centralised power where the Kaiser ruled supreme. ...

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Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? ... Benito Mussolini backed up by Hitler, became the worst dictator in Italy's history by trying to take over the world. ... Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. ... His objective was to control all economic, political and social activities of the Italian people and all neighboring countries. ... Somewhere another predator awaits his chance to write his name in history and to ri...

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Even though Mussolini became a dictator he knew very little of history, of economics, of socialist theory. ... He first didn't realize the great influence the church had on the Italian life. ... In the elections of 1919 in Italy the t party did not do that great. ... He put Italy in a state of civil war using it to gain the population to the t party. ... He was compared to Cesar as the hero of Italy. ...

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Some countries such as Italy, Poland and Greece all wanted a piece of the action. ... The biggest example of this was Italy. Italy had originally been allied with Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but when war broke out Italy refused to march. Then a year later Italy signed a secret pact with the Allies, in exchange for Italy joining the war on the Allied side, the Allies would give Italy all the land they felt they had a claim to. At the end of the war the Italians never got anything near what they had been promised. ...

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Furthermore the nations that much suffered like France and Italy were not aid by no one, not even allies themselves. ... As many economist from the world knew that that amount of money at that time in history was impossible to pay the amount of money was reduced to 132 million marks; which was a lot but not as much. ... During World War 1 the U.S did not sent many troops, but it actually borrowed Britain, France and Italy over $9 Billion dollars. ...

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While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. ... Only four year later, in 1924, Mussolini had risen to power to become Prime Minister of Italy and then in 1925 he had become Italy's new dictator. ... France and Britain were also repudiating Italy out of its due gains by not handing over the extra land they had ...

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Book burning also helped because they were able to rewrite history in a way that the kids and even the older ones would support Nazism. ... Mussolini Mussolini wanted to go back to the times when Italy was a glorious empire so in 1922 with the help of his Black Shirts, he gained political power and named himself Il Duce by marching in thousands to demand power. He first became the Prime Minister, named himself Il Duce and then eventually became Italy's Dictator. ... He acted as the emperor of Italy and wanted to go back to the Roman Empire. During this time, Italy was unorganized,...

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Due to unresolved anger with the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of dictatorship in Europe, and United States isolation countries around the world took part in history's bloodiest and most widespread war, World War II. ... It was written by the Allied powers, including Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, and Germany. ... In 1925, Benito Mussolini became the dictator of Italy. ... By the 1930's, Italy was beginning to be seen as a large world power that would have a large influence in the world. ... This lead to Italy supporting Germany against its war with Britain an...

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Payne also makes a point in his writing to compare the rule of Franco to that of other rulers in Turkey, Italy, the Balkan States, and France. ... Nevertheless, it is often important to read about history from a number of different viewpoints to gain a full perspective of the topic. ... This book shows how Franco helped Spain modernize its economic system, as well as continue to keep the traditions of Spain's history current. ...

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Germany needed rearmament and domestic consolidation, coupled with the gaining of alliances with Britain and Italy. ... Hitler believed that the history of mankind was really only a struggle for space among peoples, and that the strong survived by gaining the necessary living space from which they could continue to grow numerically, and in terms of racial quality. ... On 6 July 1920, he concluded "for us the enemy sits on the other side of the Rhine, not in Italy or elsewhere." And on August 1st of the same year "we must use everything we can, especially the differences between Franc...

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Germany was the one who started the war but was later joined by Italy and Japan in 1940 and 1941. ... In terms of lives lost and material destruction, World War II was the most devastating war in human history. ... I believe this war should never have happened and I hope history does not repeat itself....

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With Germany's continual retreat from Russia and the Western democracies of America, Great Britain, and France delivering defeats in Northern Africa, Italy, and the beaches of Normandy, Germany's existence would finally come to an end. ... How an individual like Hitler could shock the world by starting another world war two decades after the first is a prime example of history repeating itself. ...

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Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. ... Countries such as Russia because of their political system were untouched by the devastating effects of the crash such as poverty and radical politics whereas other countries history was to be made because of it. ... Italy was extremely hard hit. ... In Italy the Fascist dictatorship led by Mussolini also failed to fulfil its promise of economic prosperity leading to extensive discontent. ... In Italy the implemented reforms managed to save the country from bankruptcy. ...

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The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. ... One leader was Benito Mussolini, a fascist dictator of Italy. He centralized all power in himself as the leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler's Germany. ... When Italy declared war on Turkey in 1911, he was imprisoned for his pacifist propaganda. ... After seeing Italy's dictator rise to power, a man named Adolph Hitler was heavily influenced. ...

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Hitler has definitely caused an epidemic so grand that it has affected world history today and according to www.Biograpghy.com . ... He took the pain that he was dealing with and turned it into the greatest catastrophe in history. ... Hitler also declared war on the United States in 1941 which led to six of the seven continents which included the United States, Great Britain, Western Allies and Russia to align a plan to crush the Nazi, Germany, Italy and Japan. ... Now that would be something to go down in history for years to come. In all, I feel that Adolf Hitler has affected world histor...

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One of the most significant problems of the war for Germany was the financial implications and reasons to its unfortunate history during the war. ... Although it prevented war between Yugoslavia and Albania it didn't show any signs of intervention to stop the Italian dictator Mussolini invading Abyssinia in 1935, other than to try and block exports to Italy which simply didn't work. ...

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In the summer of 1940 the Germans, with their allies, the Italians, controlled all of western Europe. ... His Italian and Japanese partners also made mistakes. ... Italy pushed the war into North Africa. ... While the next step was to knock Italy out of the war, no small matter, a joint staff of British and Americans started to plan in the earnest for the great cross-Channel invasion. ... Arnold compared it to the Battle of Gettysburg for its importance in American history. ...

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Some of the major causes of the Second World War were: • Anger over the Versailles Treaty • The failure of peace efforts after World War I • The rise of Fascism • The goals of Hitler ANGER OVER THE VERSAILLES TREATY The Treaty of Versailles was enacted into history in June 1919 with Germany forced to accept sole responsibility for causing World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Britain, France, America and Italy in 1919; Germany was only invited to listen to their fate being discussed. ...

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The Holocaust was one of the most devastating blows to a single group of people in the history of the world. ... He also had the help of two other powerful dictators, Mussolini of Italy, and Stalin of Russia. ...

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The policy of Appeasement epitomised by the Munich agreement, is a pact signed in 1938 between Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy, which allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland (area along Czech borders) to prevent the onset of a major war. ... Taylor's suggestion to persevere with Chamberlain's appeasement, has been highly criticised, notably by Trevor-Roper (1961) and Cole (1968) who both agree that Taylor's view of history is "utterly erroneous:" 'Revisionist' historians - including Taylor - choose, censor and adapt the histor...

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Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. ... Though The Hall of People in Berlin, the construction and expansion of roads and thoroughfares, and the implementation of state measures to control hygiene and traffic, militaristic planning of cities are evident of attempts for Haussmanesque transformations and plans of war, the Fascists in Germany, Italy, and Russia were unable to fully execute a complete concrete embodiment of their political system largely due to interruptions in construction during the Second World War. ... The reclamation of the Pontin...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...

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The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. ... The teaching of school subjects was changed to brainwash the young people : History was distorted to celebrate the Germans and blame the Jews and the Communists for the disasters, biology taught them that the Aryan race was scientifically superior to the others, and Math was devoted to problems implying the non-Aryans' usele...

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