That same day, the Social Democratic Party declared Germany was a republic. ... This meant that no party ever had majority in the Reichstag. ... Hitler's party got votes from disillusioned middle-class workers who switched their usual votes for the National Party and the Democrats to the Nazi's. ... He succeeded and rose to supreme control in the party. ... The Nazi's were supported for many reasons, and each of these saw the Nazi Party eventually come to be a very successful and powerful party in Germany. ...

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They agreed to get rid of all Nazi parties. ... The Western Allies set up political parties in their zones held elections. ... These hopes were quickly dashed in the German Democratic Republic. ... In 1969, the Free Democratic Party won a razor thin victory in parliamentary elections, and Willy Brandt became chancellor. ... Its crafty first chancellor, Konrad Adenuer, knew how to exploit for the benefit of his country and his party. ...

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The fascist's didnt make idle promises like the democratic Govts. ... It gave the democratic Weimar govt. ... Although Italy had been democratic since 1870 it had failed to take root. ... Hitler's Nazi Party it stood no chance. ... For the most part it was external factors that made the position of some democratic Govts. ...

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By the end of 1920, the party had grown to about three thousand members and Hitler was voted the leader of the Nazi Party. In an attempt to overthrow the democratic government, Hitler was put into jail for nine months. ... He divided the party into 2 parts. One was dedicated to undermining and plotting to overthrow the German government that was still a democratic republic. ... The democratic view of freedom, is to do what one wants but not at the expense of others" freedom. ...

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In 1912 he back Woodrow Wilson as the presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention. ... Then he became the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1920. ... In 1928 he won that election and went on in 1932 to become the Democratic Party's nominee for President. ...

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Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator in the mid twentieth century, whose great fear of the rising communist party in both the Soviet Union and in America was reflected by a great deal of the country. ... McCarthy and many other republican politicians believed that the democratic party, along with President Harry S. Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ...

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It fell on to the shoulders of the German Socialist Party who of course took the blame by the German people. ... The political culture was so polarized on extreme levels of left versus right that infighting stalled a lot of progress that other democratic republics enjoyed. ... Until 1929, the Nazi Party was a fringe splinter political group along with a lot of other extremist left and right-wing parties. ... Hitler joined the the German Workers party in 1919 the group later changed the name to the NSDAP, the Nazi party, (Bergan, 32) and though was not first looked at as anyone important he qu...

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He then met members from the Social Democratic Party and joined them. ... While he was in jail, the Social Democratic Party than split into two parts. One of the parties was Mensheviks, which were more traditional ideas. The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. ...

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The Soviet Union was a single party state and held a communist economic system that the U.S wanted to hold a 'containment' foreign policy towards. ... Truman handled the nation's containment policy with great success that kept the democratic and free market integrity of western Europe. Through Truman's use of economic aid to suffering european countries, establishing military links with pro-democratic nations, and his firmness when responding to threatening soviet acts, Truman handled the soviet threat to the best of any presidential ability. ... To meet this dilemma hea...

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Moreover, the economic impact of the Treaty of Versailles was crushing. Germany lost 13 per cent of her territory, 10 per cent of her population, 15 per cent of arable land, Huge amounts of ships and shipping facilities and of railway rolling-stock were delivered to the Allies. The years 1880-1914,...

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For example: Piggy is a whole different type of leader, one who isn't the guide of his political party but still is an leader. ... He steps up a democratic government; he tired to make things fair and tried his hardest to get rescued. Like a democratic government there is the problem of freedom, how much freedom do the kids on the island get? ...

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He joined the local Democratic Party organization, known as the Kansas City Ward Democratic Club. ... So he started by entering a four way Democratic primary for a judgeship, which was essentially a job supervising roads and buildings. ...

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He also shunned the evolution of the two party system and regional separation. ... As President, Lincoln helped build the strength of the Republican Party, swayed the northern Democrats to the Union cause, and in 1863, he issued his controversial Emancipation Proclamation. ... Roosevelt was selected as the Democratic candidate to run against incumbent Herbert Hoover. ...

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They sent him to a German Workers' Party hosted by Gottfried Feder. ... The Nazis assigned him National Socialist German Workers' Party member number seven. Working for the cancellation of the Versailles Treaty, the Nazi's party was divided up into two major political organizations. The first was PO I- was dedicated to the undermining and overthrowing of the German democratic republic. ... But rather than be discouraged or slowed down, Hitler immediately began reorganizing the Nazi Party with feverish effort. ...

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The land controlled by the Soviet Union became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ... As the years went by, the leaders of East Berlin's communist Party decided to allow some people to cross into West Berlin to visit relatives. ...

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The main purpose of peacekeepers is to help two warring parties make an agreement and stop hostile actions. ... It is also necessary to embed democratic values in the key institutions of nations". ... Mediation efforts rely on opposing parties consenting to certain conditions. ... Consent of both parties is not required. If there is a cease-fire the enforcement troops have the power to take coercive action against the party that broke the cease-fire. ...

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This was another factor to the rise of the Nazi party. ... One of the parties was the Nazi party (National Socialists party); the leader of that party was Adolf Hitler, he blamed the politicians who signed the Treaty of Versalilles for betraying the country. ... Between 1930-1932, the Nazi party found money to finance three massive election campaigns. ... Unfortunately for them it was not to remain a democratic system for long. ... With no opposition parties, there were no opponents to the new order. ...

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The president and his administration prosecuted anyone who seemed deceitful to their country and involved with the Communists party. ... The Hollywood Ten for example, famous actresses, actors and directors who were accused of being involved with the Communist Party and their lives were forever ruined. ... The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... Even though that was courageous act one of the most memorable demonstrations held at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. ...

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Stalin was conditioned to be ruthless, from his abusive father to his work in the Bolshevik Party; he would follow a destructive path through out his life. ... His career in the Social Democratic party began as a propagandist among T"bilisi railroad workers. ... He also became known as an up and comer follower for the Bolshevik party, and helped organize a bank robbery in 1907 to help finance his party. ... Lenin the leader of the Bolshevik party, started to rally the people, and by October, they had seized power of the government. ... Stalin's work led to a promotion of commissar for...

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His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stalin on his 50th birthday. ...

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Serving as a Vice President, a core member of both House of Representative and Senate, many believed that the 1960 election will be a landslide victory for Nixon and his Republican Party. ... Kennedy managed easily outmaneuver the other candidates for the Democratic Party. ...

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The people in the industrial jobs formed the British Labour party in 1906. This party was inducted into the government and allowed all men to participate or run for offices. (Glennon 48) Suffrage was an important feature of the democratic world and was reserved to property holding men in Britain. ...

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In April 1929, he felt his position as chief propagandist for the party. ... In July 1921, he became party chairman with dictorial powers. ... The Nazi Party's votes went down from two million votes in 1924 to 810,000 votes by 1928. This only gave the party twelve out of the 491 representatives seats. Although, Hitler succeeded in increasing his party membership and developed the organization of the party with the help of Gregor Strausser. ...

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This conference also made sure that any remnants of the Nazi party would be disbanded. ... Anyone that has taken an above average participation in the Nazi party had to be removed from office. ... Their judicial system would be set up in a democratic style. ... Then we look to the Western half of Germany, which was molded to follow the free and democratic ways of the United States, French, and Great Britain. ... This democratic government is going to be a very conservative one because of all the restrictions that were placed on the German people and German industries. ...

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In a speech at Wheeling, on February 9th Senator McCarthy claimed to have in hand a list of 205 people in the State Department known to be members of the Communist party. ... Some lost their jobs after they admitted they had been members of the Communist party. McCarthy made it clear to witnesses that the only way of showing that they had abandoned their left-wing views was by naming other members of the Communist party. In the 1950 elections McCarthy ensured the defeat of several Democratic senators who had dared question and oppose him. ...

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