FINAL EXAM ESSAY -- 2016
NAME: Sandtana Woodfin SCORE:
COMPARE AND CONTRAST TWO LEADERS OF THE 1930’S AND 1940’S (FDR, HITLER, STALIN, MUSSOLINI, AND CHURCHILL). INCLUDE THEIR DIFFERENT POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES, TREATMENT OF THEIR CITIZENS, AND THE GOALS OF EACH LEADER.
“Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 193”(World War II History, History.com Editors, History.com).Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were two of the many leaders involved in World War II. In the beginning of WWII, Hitler and Stalin
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He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths”(Adolf Hitler Bio,Bio.com Editors,Bio.com). Adolf Hitler believed that the Germans were part of a race called Aryans and that they were superior to all others. He did not believe that the Jews were Germans and that they were conspiring against the Aryans to rule the world for themselves. Hitler and his Nazis believed that a strong central government was most important, so the lives of German citizens were not that great. First off, he found that the elderly people would not agree with his ideas, so he went after young adults and children. People had to be very careful because they could as easily be thrown into a concentration camp as if they were a Jew. The Jewish people had it the worse, Hitler gathered all the Jews and sent them to concentration camps and if you went there you were most likely never coming out alive. The Jews had to hide out with Germans, but if they were caught they would be sent to concentrations camps. At these concentration camps you would be worked to death or brought to the gas chambers, where you thought you were getting a normal shower, but end up getting trapped in a chamber filled with gas and dying a very painful death.Even though he did not treat his people the best he had a lot of goals to make Germany better and powerful again. One of his biggest goals was to reunite all German speaking …show more content…
“ Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism”(Joseph Stalin Bio,Bio.com Editors,Bio.com Website). Stalin took complete control over Russia, so all the citizens of Russia lost all of their freedom and the government controlled every aspect of your life like, they decided what you could and could not watch or listen to. He moved farmers to collective farms to make food for Russia and the farmers could not get much if any money for their work. He did this to help accomplish one of his many goals, to take over the world little by little. First, he wanted to get back Russia’s USSR land that had been lost the WWI. It’s also why he signed the Non -Aggression Pact with Hitler to by him more time. One huge reason wanted to conquer lands because he wanted to spread his idea of communism and to have people devoted to serve
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler are often referred to as two of the most influential people of the first half of the twentieth century. FDR and Hitler were certainly the two most influential and powerful people in their time of economic depression and world war. These were two very different men, but they had their similarities. Both of these men brought their country’s out of an economic depression. The two were very impressive speakers. Hitler certainly had his “critics”, but so too did Franklin Roosevelt.
This essay will compare the three leaders who are famous for their dictatorship and totalitarianism during the 30's decade-Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin. Totalitarianism is when a government gains absolute and total control over the country, including the freedom of thought and will as well as the citizen?s lifestyle, no other political parties are allowed and has the concept where the country is most important. The difference and similarity between their ideology, usage of propaganda & censorship and the method of improving the economy would be stated and explained through examples. Basically, their ultimate aim was the same, they all tried to make their country better. However, there was their own ambition wanting for
Hitler started off as failed artist who wasn’t amounting to much in his life until he was made chancellor and used the Nazi party to build a racist state in Germany. Hitler started by promising people basic necessities to gain support. Then the power started to rush to his head when Nazi’s started to belittle non-Aryans and made stereotyping part of the curriculum for school children. He made Jewish people wear the star of David on their arms and if they owned a business, they had to put signs in their windows saying that they were Jewish. The Nazi party used Jewish people as a major scapegoat for their economic issues like the Great Depression and World War Two. It even got to a point where Hitler passed laws striping Jews of their basic rights.
Fascism was a totalitarian political movement that developed after 1919 as a reaction against the political and social changes brought about by World War 1 and the spread of socialism and communism. It flourished between 1919 and 1945 in several countries, mainly Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan. Fascism is a form of totalitarian dictatorship that had ideals such as extreme nationalism, economic self sufficiency and military strength. The dictators abolished all opposition against them and basically took complete control of the lives of everyone in their country.
After World War I, Adolf Hitler was one of the dictators that arose; which then gained power in Germany in its Great Depression. Hitler rose to power using techniques such as propaganda, censorship, charisma and terror, but that was not all he did. Hitler started his own fascist party in Germany and called it the Nazi Party. Later, Hitler developed anti-semitism, or prejudice against Jews and dehumanized them. He viewed Jews as a separate race not a religion. This caused many changes particularly to the Jews. During World War I the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews caused political, economic, and social changes.
Dictatorship throughout the ages has mainly led to oppression and conflict between people and government. Some of the notoriously bad dictators took office around the 1920’s and 1930’s. There were three main dictators in that time period and they all ran different countries in very different ways. Josef Stalin was known as the dictator of the Soviet Union, he was all about communism and did not care if there was opposition to his ideas. On the other hand, Benito Mussolini was in charge of Italy and all about fascism. Possibly the worst known dictator of all times was Hitler, in charge of, Germany, he was all about Nazism. Each had a different outlook on ruling, but they all did things similarly to lead to nations hatred against them. Basically, their ultimate goal was to do what was best for their countries, however, there want for power tended to get in the way. They all wanted to accomplish many things, they used many different ideas and ways to run their nations. They were all blamed for their nations demise in one way or another. This essay will discuss the similarities and differences between Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
The rulings of these two leaders had many similarities yet still had some differences. Their beliefs in running the country came to be very alike. Hitler and Mussolini both had negation of parliamentary and democratic political order, the use of violence and of physical strength, and the “revolutionary project” of a new society. Hitler and Mussolini feared any kind of strong and permanent power other than their own. This system of government where many institutions clashed with one another was extremely chaotic, and only the one leader could keep it working.
The Jews were starved to death, shot down for the most pointless reasons, were put through all different kinds of torture. Those who survived were forced to work in labor camps, all because Adolf Hitler had a bone to pick with Jews. Adolf Hitler was a dictator who had 850,000 Nazis under his hand. He despised Jews, and used his forces to take Jews hostage and force them to work in concentration camps. Ironically enough, it is believed that Hitler may have had Jewish ancestry. He wanted to rid the world of Jews, creating what he believed to be a perfect civilization.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were the most recognizable and known totalitarian leaders in Europe. They both had a great impact on the world's history. Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer of the III Reich and a leader of the Nazi Party. He is to blame for the break out of the II World War and for the creation of an ideology which caused the holocaust and suffering of many nations. Stalin was a leader of the Soviet Union until 1953.
Hitler represented the Nazi party they wanted to kill off has many Jews as he could, they believed if they did this Germany would recovery from world war 1, also, they believed in a national community formed by so called racially pure people the Nazi party believed there should only be pure Germans. Blonde hair and blue-eyed Germans, they felt if you weren’t a pure German you weren’t a person.
Hitler and Stalin will probably go down in history as two of the greatest known evil leaders of the 20th Century. You might ask what could bring two men to become the menaces they were. What kind of upbringing would cause someone to turnout the way they did?
Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin were both Bolsheviks looking to make a communist state in Russia. They both had ideals and methods that brought them to where they got to and what they had achieved. While Lenin was more of a democratic follower, and allowed inter-party discussions, he was also a great theorist of socialism. He was also a communist who focused on the temporary capitalist development of Russia. As for Stalin, he was an opportunist politician, and was also a communist mostly just for his personal benefits and gains. He had and followed socialist policies and didn’t have the best personality and attitude, he was quite rude and disgraceful. These two leaders were mainly shaped into who they were due to their past, by comparing them, it will show if their pasts affected their ideology and methods as how different it was, also seeing how with the similar aims, how with their different attitudes and personality, they were able to
Similarities & Differences between Hitler and Stalin Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were two completely different men with completely different backgrounds, who both had a huge impact during the 20th century. They both hated each other, but they shared many similarities and differences in how they view things. Both were similar in their tactics of dictatorship and were very successful in there rise of power. They shared the same ambition to rule their countries and by doing so they killed millions of innocent people. However, they both had different objectives and believes.
When compared, Nazism and Stalinism are most often debated in terms of totalitarian regimes. Further comparisons can be made however, when looking at how both regimes were able to ascend to totalitarian status and how the aims of Stalinism and Nazism compare. Both Germany and Russia possessed imperialistic ambitions that spilled over into Central and Eastern European countries. Both Nazism and Stalinism sought to build utopic societies by implementing a final and permanent revolution. People that did not fit into to the utopic image created by Stalin and Hitler would be forcibly removed from each society by the use of violence and terroristic tactics. As Nazism and Stalinism rose to power, they implemented a system of inclusion and exclusion by creating an image that all nationals should aspire to. Poland was a victim of both regimes’ attempts at utopia and was nearly completely lost to the annals of history.
After World War I as most of the world was in an economic depression, two very different dictators rose to power in Europe, Stalin and Hitler. Stalin was dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Russia. Hitler was Führer of Nazi Germany. Both used their positions in power to change their country’s political, economic, and social aspects.