Also, numerous conservatives were worried about a Communist takeover, because, by 1930, the Communists polled more than six million votes. ... This type of ideology focused on issues such as the nature of mankind, a mass party system, a system of terror, military control by the government, and alliances with big businesses. ... Furthermore, Stalin's rule of his Communist Party also exemplified totalitarian values. To begin, Stalin used this type of ideology to gain dictatorial control of the Communist Party in 1929. ... This party was defined as militaristic, anti-Marxist, and very na...

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Many historians would argue that the Great Depression was solely responsible for the increasing support of the NSDAP and the defining factor for Hitler's success. ... Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP were essentially carried to complete power through their ideology and the promises they were offering to the German public, at a time when the people were desperate for someone who knew what they needed as a nation. ... Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any communist a...

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In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mass party controlling the economy, the media and the arms of a state controlled through terror and a fixed ideology ; which, according to Carl Friedrich (a political thinker), define the features of a totalitarian state. ... The guideline of this ideology was the supremacy of the Aryan race. ... However, the Nazi's ideology toward the women was different from the men. ... They were known as very violent and were ruled ...

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Hitler justified his decision by arguing that he was attempting to save Europe from "communist barbarism". ... The Soviet Union provided considerable help to the Spanish Communist Party to improve its position in the Popular Front government. This included the removal of the socialist Francisco Largo Caballero as prime minister and replacing him with the communist sympathizer, Juan Negrin. ...

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This is something that caught me by surprise because I never knew that it was the way that they spoke to the people that influenced them to believe the Nazi Party and their ideology. It was also never clear to me that aside from the Holocaust being the systematic attempt to exterminate the Jewish people, Hitler also wanted to exterminate "Communists, Social Democrats, liberals-and so-called antisocial elements-vagrants, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and others.... The plan that Hitler had corrupted in his mind was to take over and eliminate all of which didn't incl...

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