... Europe. Any resistance he met in establishing communist states was quickly suppressed by intimidation and terror. For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. Therefore it can clearly be seen that ... the communist bloc countries who had never been truly supportive of the communist regime. In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under S...

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... Europe. Any resistance he met in establishing communist states was quickly suppressed by intimidation and terror. For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. Therefore it can clearly be seen that ... the communist bloc countries who had never been truly supportive of the communist regime. In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under S...

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... Europe. Any resistance he met in establishing communist states was quickly suppressed by intimidation and terror. For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. Therefore it can clearly be seen that ... the communist bloc countries who had never been truly supportive of the communist regime. In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under S...

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... . He centralized all power in himself as the leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler's Germany. Mussolini's political views as a young a young gentlemen were almost completely opposite of what they became when he was a middle-aged man. Mussolini boasted ... enabling law for example, nut could you say that without one less significant cause, would Hitler been just as popular. The depression in Germany caused extremism, as desperate people felt that ordinary politicians had failed them and they looked for a way out of their t...

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... dead on October 25th, 1956. Throughout his reign, Hitler followed and enforced his beliefs and policies. He commenced the idea of National Socialism. In order to have a national socialist government guidelines to follow were needed. Therefore, Hitler and his followers constructed the party program, which consisted of twenty-five points. It was comprised of a mixture of embellished nationalistic demands ... 25 of this program states, "For modern society, a colossus with feet of clay, we shall create an unprecedented centralization, which will unite all powers in the hands of the government...

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... of the Soviet zone. The Allies had many reasons for partitioning Germany. Overall, the purpose of dividing land up was to control Germany until a new government could be instated. West Germany became a surprisingly stable western democracy. However, East Germany was established as a Stalin-style communist state. The East German government was formed into a centralized and dictatorial regime. Free speech and ... opinions against the regime were not tolerated, and artistic and intellectual programs were strongly controlled. Stalin wanted to cripple Germany completely ... rising powers in...

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... hopes that had initially been raised among the Russian people by the Russian Revolution of 1917. With Lenin's overthrow of the Provisional Government in November 1917, many peasants seized the landowner's land they worked on, slightly easing the hardships they normally lived through. Activist ... . For the rest of Russia, Stalin would maintain ultimate control and the oppressed masses would not ever end up forming the government. Overall, the hopes that had initially been raised among the Russian people by the Russian Revolution of 1917 were betrayed because ... borders got to decide wh...

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... called "The Party". There job is to maintain a totalitarian control over the people within Oceania. Big Brother and Nineteen Eighty-Four are a representation of the governments ruling Russia, Italy, and Germany. During the time Nineteen Eighty-Four was being written, Joseph Stalin was ruling Russia. Stalin ruled Russia as a dictator from nineteen twenty-two until nineteen fifty-three. Italy was currently ... ruled by Benito Mussolini (nineteen twenty- two until nineteen forty-three). Mussolini was the founder and leader of Italian Fascism, Hitler and his Nazi party were still in charge ...

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... ready for his already increasing power in Europe and he still wanted more territory and militia. His armies were in the millions and he already had Germany. Everybody wanted Poland because this would be the key to launching an attack on Russia if they got to power hungry. Not one person or country ... Union. Stalin had asked for other land, such as South Sakhalin Island, the Kuriles and Outer Mongolia. They asked for 20 billion dollars in reparations from Germany and 3 seats on the United Nations. The United States was offended at the fact that the Soviet Union would not hold free electio...

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... into being for many reasons: class struggle, nationalism, and a need for a better way of life. However the biggest reason that totalitarian government came into play was because of the Great Depression. Three nations in particular were able to model this take over by using the lower classes ... taking over factories. And with the pope lifting the ban on Catholics, there were an increasing number of different opposing factions in government making an already unstable government worse. Mussolini, a nationalist and fascist, steps in asking for a greater sense of nationalism. He helps this i...

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... War II would end. The main purpose of Yalta was the reestablishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. They gave Poland back its independence and gave its own national election in order to create a new, independent government. Yugoslavia was given its own government as well, which consisted of mostly old members under a new system. In both cases, Nazi and Fascist leaders ... were specifically prohibited. Secondly, the Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into zones controlled by each of the three nations present. With the immense size ... of Stalin's army, Russia w...

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... that they must stop fascism, so of course once fascism was stopped and all common ground was lost, the two long term foes went back to their showdown. With facist Germany out of the way, the Soviets turned back to their quest for land expansion which pushes the U.S. into the corner that they needed to have a reason to act. This action ... of course were stripped of the position and authority. This program actually raised suspicion and formed conspiracies about just how deep communism had rooted itself within the top levels of government. It turns out that some of these conspiracies were...

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... quiet period, but the student body remained independent minded. The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was ... clothing and household goods was neglected. In 1929 Stalin ended private farming and transferred the control of farms, farm equipment, and livestock to the government. But the farmers resisted his order and destroyed about half of the U.S.S.R.'s livestock and much of its produce. As ...

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... that provoked the war to continue. The war began, continued, and ended with the prominent leaders of the Axis and Allies. On the Axis side was Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allies were Great Britain, Soviet Union, and The United States. Such leaders of the nations were Charles de Gaulle, Churchill, Stalin ... he was rebellious and was constantly in trouble (12). Later when Hitler joined the army, Stalin was focused on politics and getting involved in the government (13). As mentioned previously, both leaders spent time in jail. The only difference was the cause for imprisonment. Hitler...

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... an ally to survive. He turned to Britain for help but was denied so he then turned to Germany. Germany agreed and they signed a non-aggression pact. With the agreement, Russia and Germany would attack Poland. On September 1st Soviets attacked Poland from the east and Germany attacked from the west of Poland. With the conquer of Poland Hitler decided to go after his ... D. Roosevelt considers the fate of Poland along with other matters. While there they agreed that the Soviet Union should have influence in Eastern Europe, Poland should have its own government and Germany should be divide...

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... pumping out more tanks and planes than any other country in the world. This was due to executive order 8802, which gave government jobs to African-Americans. Also, the U.S. broke many of Germany's and Japan' codes, and few of America's codes were due to code talkers who were Navaho Indians. Franklin D. Roosevelt ... United States after those two words. Roosevelt's main goal for the war was for, "the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live."" This was challenged quickly by the tow so-called of what would be France again, de Gaulle and Giraud. ... ...

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... the sole leader of the Soviet Union. One of Stalin's first moves as leader of the Soviet Union was to replace Lenin's New Economic Policy with a series of government controlled five year plans. These plans called for a highly ambitious state guided crash industrialization, and the collectivization of agriculture. Although the first two five year plans had some failures ... , Russia now was industrializing at an amazing rate, surpassing Germany, and Japan. Besides an Industrial Revolution Stalin set out to fix the lagging agricultural production in his five year plans. Stalin expanded a s...

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... most powerful dictatorships ever. He went to the point where his rule became more than a dictatorship and turned to totalitarianism. This is where a government exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life. He achieved this by terror and forcefulness. He forced people to follow the concept of an ... large farm to increase the efficiency of the farm. These farms were run under the supervision of the government. Peasants were quickly angered by the new system of collective farms and rebelled against the government. The complaints from the peasants were ignored and the...

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Adolf Hitler did no want to only defeat Russia but destroy her altogether. He would eliminate the government, culture, kill and punish the people, and destroy everything in his path. Hitler hated Communist and Slavic people, which he wrote about ... spit up Poland equally between the two powers that's what the pact was for. Nine days after Hitler attacked Poland England and France declared war on Germany. Hitler was going to go after them and make sure they would pose no threat on his country, but Stalin attacked Finland, which enraged Hitler. ... greatly in the war. Stalin was shocked. He was...

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... would be taken over and made more efficient and better ran. Each year you would have to hand over a certain amount of grain to the government which you would eventually get paid for. Those who rebelled against this was killed or sent to labor camps in Siberia. By improving machinery and agriculture ... Five Year Plan was that everyone in USSR was employed. Although Stalin was extremely harsh, after the three Five Year Plans were complete USSR's industry challenged Germany's and improved by four hundred percent. Stalin showed USSR's true power, influence, and ability to come over adversity...

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... to Poland (and thus remain under Soviet influence). Both Roosevelt and Churchill refused to agree to these demands. The Soviet Union responded bluntly, saying "..the Soviet Government cannot agree to the existence in Poland of a Government hostile to it."2 The atmosphere at the Potsdam Conference was noticeably cooler, with Truman replacing Roosevelt as the representative from the United States. "Truman...had been ... stand up to the Russians...We have been too easy with them."4 Both Truman and Churchill were annoyed because Germany east of the Rivers Oder and Neisse were being occupied...

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... that the allies would not fight for the land that was Germanys capitol during the war. Stalin feared that the Western Germany would gain too much power; therefore he made a blockade too all roads and railways entering the former capitol of Germany. Though the Americans could still fly goods in by air, many problems stilled occurred in this process. Many problems during ... in a part of the war. Another big aspect of the Soviets hostility towards the Americans would be the fact that Stalin's government was hardly even recognized until 1933. Even though Stalin had started his government i...

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... he was unable to publish it until the end of the war. Russia was an ally to England, a country who repelled the attacks of Nazi Germany, making it a bad time to criticize their country. Beneath the simplicity of Animal Farm, Orwell displays the techniques Stalin used to bend the original ... to power by eradicating his opponents. He eventually became the same tsar everyone wanted removed. All the people gained was a new tyrant with a new government. Orwell had plenty of reasons to write this novel, having been affected by many revolutionary events in his life. His father was one of the ...

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... time for Stalin to concentrate on agriculture. His idea was to collectivize all the farms so that they could produce more and be owned by the government. People would not be able to own their own farms or sell their own goods and in 1929 this begane. The farmers that worked on these ... farms had to hand over a certian amount of the produce no matter what to the government. With all the farms collectivized the fields could be plowed more effiencantly and more could produce much more crops. Collectivization had turned Russias agriculture into new ... sighned to give Russia time to build ...

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... to sign the Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk, which made the people of Russia mad because it had led to Russia giving land and monies to Germany while Russia was already in such a depressed state. With so many policies and decisions that hurt Russia made by Lenin, even before his death ... , the people of Russia were looking for new leadership. The citizens knew that even though Lenin said he organized his government on democratic principles that in reality the Communist party held all the power. Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were among Lenin's revolutionary/ supporters. ... Party. The outcome ...

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