These political reforms eventually led to the liberalization in the Soviet Union thus limiting the far-reaching role of the communist party. Changes in the Soviet Union consequently caused other communist regimes in Eastern European countries like Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria to collapse. This overthrow destroyed the monopoly of communists over political decisions as many of the countries attempted to reach out to the West and establish market economies. ... The West's focus on market economies and privatization ultimately influenced other third world countries to abandon th...

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January 5th 1919 saw an unprepared and badly staged Spartacist putsch, where the communist's led by 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg, captured the headquarters of the governments newspapers and the telegraph bureau. ... Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist leader Karl Liebknecht were murdered, stripping the communists of their leaders. Not only did the failed and fruitless rising influence people further from the communists, due to such unreliable politics, but the loss of both leaders suppressed the communist movement such that they didn't recover. Both fac...

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In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. ... At first, they took away the rights of minority groups, such as the Communist and the Jews, then they took away the rights of trade unionist, and other groups until eventually the German citizens had no rights left in which to stop the government from further impinging on their freedom. ... Nazi Political Opposition Among the first groups to be targeted by the Nazi's, were oppositional political parties, such as the Communist. Upon taking office in early 1933...

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The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... The communistic ideology appeared desirable to outside inhabitants. ... Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisiona...

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Then by that conviction, Hitler's supporters roamed the country, harassing Communists, Socialists and any others judged to be a threat to ensure that the Nazis achieve absolute power in the Reichstag. ... By March 1933 the Communists had been banned from taking their seats, and the Enabling Act gave the Cabinet a variety of legislative and budgetary powers and the authority to suspend the constitution. ... Germany had experienced governments of every kind of political amalgamation and character, had suffered a terrifying national bankruptcy, paralysing inflation and a Communist Putsch...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...

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Hitler turned to still wealthy and powerful German industrialists for money to fund his rallies and campaigns and in return promised a disciplined work force ( trade unions would be abolished) and protection against communists. ... It has always been thought that the fire was deliberately burnt by the Nazi party, but Hitler blamed the communists. ...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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Bismarck's Domestic Policy 1871-1890. Along with getting an IB Paper 3 question about Biz's foreign policy, you might also (instead?) encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. So let's deal with that now. OK? ...

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