This is because once in power, the party or group that now rules has to quickly move to secure the power they now hold, because if they are left vulnerable, another overthrow is very likely. ... They consolidated their power by creating domestic policies which would in effect oppress the opposition, attract the masses, and also control their points of views. ... However, things got out of hand as Mao's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) realized that their power was being undermined. This led to a purge of these intellectuals during the Anti-Rightist Campaign, where they were seen sent int...

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The idea behind the principle was to create one single person who could carry out the combined will of the state. ... The Schatzstaffel - guard unit or SS were formed as Hitler's personal bodyguards in 1925, they represented the most loyal Nazi SA. ... These departments had limited success, but mainly they failed. They force educated people, like Albert Einstein, to flee Germany fearing persecution by the Chamber. ... This idea was pinnacle to Gleischaltung, as science was one of the few things, which could argue effectively against National Socialist theory. ...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. ... This was the first time that the world in general was witness to the dispensation of justice against men who initiated and efficiently carried out acts "so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," (Jackson). ... After the verdicts were carried out, and the majority of the defendants executed, the international legal community and the w...

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It is an ancient symbol meaning many different things in many different cultures. ... Also many Germans were fond of the idea that they were special. ... They should live by the three Ks: church, children and cooking. ... This law gave a newly wed couple 1000 marks, and for each child they had they were allowed to keep 250 marks. ... However in 1943 they were tried for treason and beheaded. ...

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During World War Two, Jewish refugees were being treated harshly and unfairly in Canada in the context of the Holocaust, seeing that they were refused entry into Canada, they were sent to internment camps, and were labelled as "enemy aliens.... The vessel had been turned away by many countries and the last hope they had was to either settle in Canada or the United States, but Canada did not want the Jewish people travelling on the vessel. ... A vital aspect in the plight of the Jewish refugees and the trouble they faced in order to immigrate was the widespread presence of anti – Sem...

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Continuing with this view lord Lothian sated they are only going into there own back garden. ... After occupying the Rhineland, they could fortify it, hold the frontier with a relatively small force, and greatly increase their striking force on the northern bank. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate