The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. ... However, the nationalism of Fascists did more than stress the authority of the state and insist that people exist for its benefit, it tended towards an ultra or chauvinistic nationalism. ... 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. These parties gained they su...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of Hitler's main aim's was to overturn the Treaty of Versailles, he saw this as an embarrassment to his country, underlining the concept of the November criminals and appealing to the nationalistic sentiments of his people in his desire to make Germany great. ... Such nationalism is illustrated throiugh the ideas that Hitler promoted to his people, that of the evils of Semitism and communism as well as the idea of the superiority of the Aryan race. ... In his attempt to overturn the Treaty of Versailles Hitler blatantly disobeyed its terms by the re-militarising of Germany, on...

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Representative democracy, bound up with a strong legal system of rights, is helpful in preventing excesses of the state in terms of offences committed against the citizen and maintaining legitimacy that way. However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. ... Democracy is also supposed (in an ideal world) to be largely meritocratic and so one would hope the best people for the job would rise to the top while the general vote is supposed to represent th...

• Word Count: 2466
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate