Racism, prejudice, stereotypes, and communist affiliation were components that led to unequal opportunity and public scrutiny, not allowing the African Americans to fully benefit from those governmental actions taken to help them, as you will see in this paper. ... During World War II there was animosity towards the communist party and anti-communist movements because the party was mostly associated with Russia and the Russian government, who, at the time, were the enemies.# Numerous white employers carried skeptical thoughts about hiring blacks because of their association with the communis...

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A week before the election, the Communists were thought to have been behind the Reichstag Fire, which led to Hitler signing the Decree for the Protection of People and State to allow him to imprison large numbers of Communists and ban them from campaigning to give the Nazis a huge advantage for the election. ... To get the act passed, Hitler used the SA to intimidate members of parliament when they went to vote, he discounted Communists and Communist votes, he counted absentees as a vote in favour and made promises to the Catholic party which he did not intend to carry through. ... Following t...

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In each of these nations, the communist regimes in power were forced to transfer that power to radically different institutions than they were accustomed to. ... The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a western blueprint for governmental and economic policy development. ... Preuss, "In almost all the East and Central European countries, the collapse of authoritarian communist rule has released national, ethnic, religious and cultural conflicts whic...

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The Soviet Josef Stalin, seeking to consolidate communist rule in East Europe demanded the Western Allies withdraw from their occupation zones in Berlin. ... The Soviet's imposed that they were communist. ... During 1948 the government of Eastern European countries were under communist control. ... The death in March 1953 of Soviet leader Josef Stalin undermined the positions of many communist leaders in Eastern Europe and gave the peoples of East Europe hope that regimes would be liberalized. ... On January 29, 1956, the German Democratic Republic joined hands with military with Soviet...

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Soon after WWII, Germany became divided into East and West, communist and capitalist, GDR and FRG. ... The Soviets brought the Communist Party in control and the French did not allow the formation of parties at all in their zone. ... In an excerpt in 1948 British foreign minister Ernest Bevin describes the relations between a flourishing Germany and a Europe being immune against the communist thread. ... In his speech, Truman is very concerned about the people in those countries losing their freedom if the communists take over. He also talks about consequences and how important these countrie...

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Firstly, it gave him the opportunity to imprison many communist leaders, which stopped them from campaigning against the Enabling Act. It also allowed the Nazis to say that the country was in danger from the communists during the election campaign. ... After Hitler had arrested all the communist deputies and the other parties had been intimidated by the SA in order to get the Enabling Act passed, which is all Hitler needed to do. ... After Hitler caused the Reichstag Fire and blamed it on the communists, negotiated with the Centre Party, had Social Democrats hiding on the day of the election, ...

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As the German front marched eastwards it was followed by motorized death squads in search of Jews, Partisans and Communists. ... A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war criminals (McAleavy 1972 32)" (O"Kane 1991 196) this is similar to the event in Cuba 1959. However summary executions then took place for people accused of infringing the new law after that executions for conspiracy an suspicion of being Co...

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Many Germans liked the Nazis' anti-Communist views. ... Hindenburg feared the Communists growing power and was also scared of violence from the SA, so fell for Hitler's trickery along with both Von Schleicher and Von Papen. ... Many businessmen then looked to Hitler to defend them from the communists. ... Goebbels' intelligent propaganda then built on the anti-Communist and anti-Semitic views that already existed in Germany. ...

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To be communist during this period, however, meant that one had to identify with Russia and the radical working class who were striking throughout Stevens 5 Germany and, in the eyes of most Germans, causing even greater chaos. Communists were a borderline group just as the Jews. Neither of these groups "democrats and communists "appealed to most Germans. ... Fearful of the communist worker riots exploding all over Germany and anxious to rebuild from the economic disaster of the 1930's, capitalists saw Hitler as one politician who would not hold up business. ...

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Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. ... Clashes between the communists and Social Democrats with the Nazis became more commonplace. ... He was anti-communist but not entirely anti-capitalist because if he had gone "anti-business- he would not have had the essential support of big business. ... In the 1932 elections, the majority of people had voted for either the communists or the Nazis. ...

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This upset many of the communists and socialists and in January 1919, many were rounded up and murdered in Berlin and Munich by German soldiers. ... Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. ...

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They fought Communist and others who tried to break up the Nazi party. ... First of all he blamed Jews, and Communist, for Germany's defeat in World War I. ... Because of this Hitler promised to rid Germany of the Germans and the Communist, and reunite the parts of Europe in which German was spoken. ...

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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 and socialist activity, with over four thousand thrown in prison and the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung – SA) communist supporters up in the streets, creating an atmosphere of fear against the Nazi Party, silencing anyone who was to speak against them. ...

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The Nazis used the fire and the decree to attack their political opponents, especially Hitler's least favorite party, the communists. ... After he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, the National Socialist German Workers' Party rounded up communists, leftist individuals, and labour leaders. ... The NSDAP abolished the Social Democrats, who numbered at about eight million voters and the Communists, who numbered at almost six million. ...

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Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. ... Industrialists and businessmen, attracted by Hitler's anti-Communist stance, financed the Nazi party. ...

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For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. ... By 1923 prices had become ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited, and German goods were cheap for other countries to buy which did stimulate trade and employment. ...

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This paper provides a comparative analysis of the democratic performance of three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- of the post-communist region of Central Eastern Europe, to lay the ground for further research into why their performance scores where it does on our scale. ... The three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- all have very similar historical backgrounds having some sort of democratic institutions present previous to the establishment of the communist rule in the region. ... Nevertheless, corruption and the lack of political agencies' autonomy ...

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The rise of the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, during the 1920s was no coincidence. The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. Germany, ravaged by war, was fac...

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Stresemann then acted quickly to crush a Communist rising in Saxony, and refused to get agitated by the activities of the right in Bavaria. ... The USA loaned money to Germany to pay some of the reparations back, this was seen as the Republic growing because the reparations were decreasing and also it showed that they were being accepted into the world economy, although America did have its own reasons for lending Germany money (USA didn't want Germany to be overthrown by Communists). ...

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The terms imperialism, nationalism and genocide all have different meanings and they are all correlated. Imperialism and nationalism have influenced the mass murder of ethnic groups, while in some instances extinction of a group was the desired outcome. Imperialism, nationalism, and genocide are pol...

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The "happy time", many Germans called it. With Adolf Hitler they were partners in one of histories greatest success stories. From humiliating defeat in World War 1 they had risen to become masters of Europe. They considered themselves to be the super race. Later many would say that the people were t...

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Shortly before, on March 12, 1947, President Truman declared that the United States would grant economic assistance to all those countries threatened from within by armed minorities and from without by Communist pressure. ...

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They were taught to emphasise on external 'enemies' such as the Jews and communists, to believe in the science of eugenics to create the ideal 'perfect' race, to live up to German physical ideals and to take pride of the German race. ...

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France was very concerned about Hitler breaking the treaties but they didn"t have the support or enough firepower on their own to stop it, the fear of communism and the communist revolt in Russia had taken their last ally and they were forced to stand on their own voicing objections that fell of deaf ears. ...

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"The 1929 Wall Street Market crash had a significant political, social and economic implications for all countries in the western world." To what extent do you agree with this statement? Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. The crash...

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