Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on July 29‚ 1883 in Predappio‚ Italy. His father was a blacksmith which meant Mussolini lived in the poor areas of Italy. He was named Benito after Mexican socialist reformer Benito Juarez. Because of how much his father was into socialism‚ Mussolini himself became a socialist further in his life. He became a teacher for a while but in 1902‚ left Italy to go live in Switzerland. This move of his was to avoid army service. While in Switzerland
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Once they removed political opposition thanks to his secret police and the outlawing of labor strikes‚ Mussolini and his followers solidified their power through laws that was able to transform the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within the time of five years‚ Mussolini had established his dictatorship by both legal and by extraordinary means. The United States have rules and regulations in place that wouldn’t allow this but they can be overturned by the will of the people vested in the hands
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How did Hitler and Mussolini gain and maintain power? Hitler and Mussolini both came in to power in the early days when their countries‚ Germany and Italy were facing problems after the Great War. Even then‚ both Hitler and Mussolini successfully gain and maintain power and control the country. In order to gain full control of the country they had to remove or eliminate their political rivals. Hitler used excuses to blame and imprison his political rivals. One good example would be when he
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who you think they are. Six powerful politicians were studied in “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free...or Die.” Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin are among these six. These leaders and politicians killed millions just because they were obsessed with their power. Adolph Hitler was a fascist that was the leader of the Nazi Party. Karl Marx‚ (Marxism) was very similar to Nazism. Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” while he was in jail. It said that communism and socialism were the same‚ and only different because
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A: Plan of the Investigation How were the Purges of 1934-1938 successful in helping Stalin maintain his autocratic power? The aim of this investigation is to assess how the purges of 1934-38 helped Stalin preserve his power in the Soviet Union. In order to evaluate this‚ the investigation assesses Stalin’s role in relation to the purges‚ as well as their purpose. An analysis of this should indicate the extent to which the purges were successful‚ and their contribution to Stalin’s power. In
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currently 2‚000 to 5‚000 cults active in the United States and about 10 to 20 million Americans have been or are currently involved in cults today (Clark 1 of 20). The word cult is defined as follows: “faddish devotion; a group of persons showing such devotion” (Webster Dictionary‚ 192). Although some believe that cults were a thing in the past‚ many do not know is that cults are not just a thing in the past; they are still being practiced and the effects are destructive. Cults play a negative role
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Benito Mussolini was born on July 29‚ 1883 in Predappio. The son of a blacksmith he was largely self-educated. He became a schoolteacher and a socialist journalist in northern Italy. In 1910 he married Rachele Guidi who bore his five children. Mussolini was jailed in 1911 for his opposition to Italy’s war in Libya. Soon after his release in 1912 he became editor of the socialist newspaper in Milan‚ "Avanti!". When WWI began in 1914 Mussolini advocated
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March 2010 The Regime of Stalin During the 1900s‚ a man under the name of Stalin rose to power‚ making him‚ contrary to popular belief‚ the worst dictator in that period. Unlike the infamously renowned Hitler who had attempted to eliminate all the Jews in the 1900s‚ Stalin made all the wrong decisions from the very start. Before he came to power‚ he used trickery and guile in order to gain his place at the top. Then‚ when he found his way to being the ruler of Russia‚ Stalin remained distant and separated
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Compare and contrast the methods used in the rise to and maintenance of power by Hitler and Mussolini Mussolini and Hitler both came to power during the interwar years. Both were fascist Dictators who did not only share similar aspects of ideology but also in the way they accumulated power. This essay will examine the conditions in which both dictators were allowed to emerge and grow and will also consider the differences in particular methods and manipulations used by the two leaders and their
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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) 	Benito Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy for nearly 20 years. Benito was born at Dovia‚ a suburb of Predappio‚ in the northcentral part of Italy. His father‚ Alessando‚ was a blacksmith. And his mother‚ Rosa‚ was a schoolteacher. As a young man‚ Mussolini was a Socialist with revolutionary tendencies. He was expelled from 2 schools and later was in trouble with the authorities several times. In 1912 he became editor of the Socialist newspaper
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