"Fascism" When and why? Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. the Italian army had been heavily defeated and had only won its first major victory at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918. Italy had been promised extra land by Britain and France during the war, but when the war ended it was not handed over. This made it look as if the Italian Government had been ignored. the governments after the war were weak. they were coalitions (made up of more than one party) and were not able to take decisions. ...

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What exactly is fascism? Where did it come from? What on earth is it good for? Nowadays, fascism is most popularly associated with Mussolini's Italy between the years 1922 to 1943, and Hitler's Nazi Germany between the years 1933 to 1945. However, making Nazism synonymous with fascism would be a mistake: fascism has spawned into many forms, and although they share similar features, different nations have customized fascism to a point of significant differentiation. ...

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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 rise of Adolf Hitler is a strange, awkward, and surprisingly is completely legal. Adolf Hitler has been called a brave, courageous, politically brilliant man; however he has also been called a murderous, inept, sly dictator. Regardless of who Adolf Hitler is he single handedly shaped the conti...

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Assignment 'The foreign policy of the Third Reich derived from the ideological principles and long-range goals of National Socialism. How far do you agree with Bracher? Response The statement focuses on the traditional view of Hitler's ascending to power and on his meticulous masterplan that made t...

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One of the similarities one can observe between the causes of WWI and WWII is that of the role of Germany. Concerning WWI one of the greatest causes of the war can be seen as the effect of the growth of Germany had on Europe. She was a relatively new country but one that was rapidly growing financia...

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Although continuously denied by the creator, Leni Riefenstahl- Triumph of the Will is a subtle Nazi propagandist film based on the developed ideology that "Hitler has come from the sky to kindle ancient Nuremberg with primal Teutonic fire, to liberate the energy and spirit of the German people through a dynamic new movement with roots deep in their racial consciousness" (Propaganda As Vision: Triumph of the Will, 2003). ...

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Misleading Religion When the term crusade is used in the media, people tend to think that it is in reference to a "holy war." However this is far from the truth. Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought b...

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1. Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. He argues that many factors contributed to these men participating in mass murder, ...

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Hitler's Rise To Power Who or what was responsible for Hitler's rise to power? Many believe that there was only one factor for his rise to power. Some state that Hitler could not have risen to power in any other than Germany, implying that he was nothing more than a product of German culture. Others...

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Ku Klux Klan A secret terrorist organization that originated in the southern states during the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War and was reactivated in the 20th century. The Ku Klux Klan believed in the innate inferiorityof black so therefore mistrusted adn resented...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, trans...

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Robert G. L. Waite The Psychopathic God: Adolph Hitler In Robert G. L. Waite's book, entitled, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, he delves deep into the mind of one of the world's most notorious and destructive rulers of all time. He examines his words, speeches, and behaviors and attempts...

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A leader is someone who uses his or her intellect to guide others. Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. ...

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