armed force and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions‚ keep to economic sanctions which the League ordered‚ or provide an army‚ when needed‚ for the League to use. However‚ they were often reluctant to do so. Sanctions could also hurt the League members‚ so they were reluctant to comply with them. When‚ during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War‚ the League accused Benito Mussolini’s soldiers of targeting Red Cross medical tents‚ Mussolini responded that Ethiopians were not fully
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Mussolini’s and Hitler’s Rise to Power Mussolini and Hitler both seemed as if they were going to save their countries when they were in need. Italy was rising in unemployment and inflation which cause social unrest. A newspaper editor and politicians named Benito Mussolini boldly promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuilding its armed forces. As for Germany‚ most Germans ignored Hitler and his angry message until the Great Depression ended the nation’s brief postwar recovery
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‘By 1943‚ Mussolini had created a totalitarian regime in Italy’. Explain why you agree or disagree with this view. (24 marks). Most historians have suggested that Mussolini had not created a totalitarian regime in Italy by 1943 due to the fact that Fascism remained a secondary belief for the majority of Italy‚ superseded by religion. However Mussolini did achieve a totalitarian state in some respects. For example‚ his use of propaganda was successful in propagating the idea of the ‘Cult of
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world in the 1940’s. Nations were rising against other nations. Weak nations were becoming strong. Conflicts and threats caused strong militaries to form across the world. As nations were torn by this conflict‚ heroes were born. Conflict can cause people and nations to grow and become strong while defending themselves and their interests. When conflict threatens homeland and families‚ people tend to rise up and gain strength in their time of need. Conflicts can often lead to power. Leaders are born
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last few moments of his life‚ Adolf Hitler along with his wife Eva Braun‚ whom he just married less than two days prior on April 29‚ 1945 in the late morning‚ were held up in his bunker beneath Berlin. Hitler was briefed about the assassination of Mussolini‚ the Italian dictator (“Adolf Hitler Biography”) Afraid of being captured by enemy troops‚ Hitler and Eva both swallowed hydrogen cyanide capsules. He took a precautionary measure and shot himself in the head with his own pistol‚ a Walther PPK 7
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countries began to evolve and modernize. World War I brought about new forms of world power with the formation of alliances and pacts among countries. In the wake of these alliances‚ a new form of totalitarianism began to come forth bringing a modern approach to an older form of government. Unlike the previous form in which citizens could still live by their own religious beliefs under the government‚ the new totalitarian system required that every citizen participated in and lived by the rules and religion
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THE AFTERMATH OF NAZI RULE Report from Germany HANNAH ARENDT waste the moral structure of Western society‚ committing crimes that nobody would have believed possible‚ while her conquerors buried in rubble the visible marks of more than a thousand years of German history. Then into this devastated land‚ truncated by the Oder-Neisse borderline and hardly able to sustain its demoralized and exhausted population‚ streamed millions of people from the Eastern provinces‚ from the Balkans and from Eastern
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In the second century B.C. Rome became the prominent power in Central Italy. The people of Rome achieved this feat through a series of warfare‚ and diplomacy. Whether attacking or defending they fought with organization‚ quality in leadership‚ ability‚ and discipline. In fact‚ they used these traits in virtually all aspects of their lives. The success of the Romans started with their organization within the city. Almost all citizens could vote‚ and after plebeians were allowed to hold office
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comprehensive socio-political system. Mussolini happily used the word‚ and while in general it usefully describes Nazism and Stalinism‚ Hitler avoided its use and Stalin saw it as applicable to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany but not to Russia. The concept gained wider currency and became prominent in schoolbooks during the post-1945 Cold War period. It was at that time that it was defined more fully‚ notably by US historians Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski in Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (1956)
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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had the same burning desire to each make their nation a respected and economically impregnable Great Power. Mussolini wanted to return Italy to its glory days of the ancient Roman Empire‚ a domestic policy amongst others which was used as propaganda and to ultimately consolidate his power. A strong economy and a united state were vital for both countries in case of the outbreak of yet another catastrophic war. "Everything in the state‚ nothing outside the state‚ nothing
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