In October 1922 Mussolini threatened to march on Rome if he was not appointed prime minister. the king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, who supported Mussolini, refused to back the existing government and invited him to become prime minister. Once he was prime minister, Mussolini persuaded the king to allow him to rule as a dictator for one year and then passed the Acerbo Law. ... Combat 18 is an openly nazi organisation (the numbers 1 and 8 refer to the initials of Adolf Hitler). It believes in attacking and murdering blacks, Jews, lesbians and gays, and other minorities, and publishes hit l...

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Despite their strength in numbers, and (at the time) modern equipment, the Soviet Union had lost too much and was operations were starting to crumble in Afghanistan. ... It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. ... The Russian supply lines where constantly being attacked, and the Soviet Union became very poor, resulting in poor quality military, the Soviet moral and numbers where dwindling. ...

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At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ... The subsequent trials were from 1946 until 1949 and they included several trials such the "doctor's trial" which had several numbe...

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This deterred countries from accepting large numbers of refugees. ... Prime Minister Mackenzie King wrote in his diary on March 29, 1938, "I fear we would have riots if we agreed to a policy that admitted numbers of Jews," and Frederick Charles Blair, director of the immigration Branch of the Department of mines and Resources had said, "No country could open its doors wide enough to take in the hundreds of thousands Jewish people who want to leave Europe: the line must be drawn somewhere....

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The period following WWII was a period of tension characterized by conflict at diplomatic, economic and all levels short of actual armed conflict between the principals on either side. The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. It was a direct result/consequence of the inability of the left and center to co-exist after the disappearance of the right. Beginning with the Yalta Convention in 1945, and continuing with the Potsdam Conference later that year, the United States and the United Soviet Socialis...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal o...

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