... undermine the imperial government. It was suspected at the time that Rasputin and the tsarina were working for a separate peace with Germany. A group of right-wing patriots, in December 1916, conspired to assassinate Rasputin. A generous dose of poison failed to produce any visible effect, and the terrified conspirators riddled him with bullets and threw his body into the frozen Neva River ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... no desire to fight. German assistance was required to rescue Mussolini's forces in Greece and North Africa. In 1943 the Allies invaded Italy, and the Fascist Grand Council and King conspired to evict Mussolini from office. Italy became a battlefield, with Germany occupying the north and the Allies the south. The Duce was imprisoned, but was soon rescued by German forces. Until ... ...

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... the assassination Germany pledged its full support to Austria-Hungary, pressuring them to declare war on Serbia, while France strengthened its backing of Russia. Convinced that the Serbian government had conspired against them, Austria-Hungary gave Serbia an unacceptable ultimatum. Unsatisfied, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. The Germans threatened war on July 31 towards the Russians ... ...

• Word Count: 1063
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... with the Treaty. This animosity towards the Weimar Republic worsened because, as the German people were largely unaware that the emperor and commander abdicated of their own choice, spread the conspiracy that the army was "stabbed in the back by socialists"; that they usurped power and betrayed the military in surrendering. The Weimar Republic felt the humiliation of defeat ... ...

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... Socialist German Worker's Party (also known as the Nazi Party), an anti-Semitic, nationalist group. His powerful speeches fueled anger over Germany's defeat of the war by implicating Jews in a conspiracy against Germany's government (History, 2015). Hitler was influenced by two political entities; the first was the German racist nationalism lead by the Upper Austrian Pan-German politician Georg von Schonerer ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a tendency to identify "evil" with "them." This process involved scapegoating and dehumanisation of the enemy'. It was then an easy step to blame all societal problems on "them," and presuppose a conspiracy of these evildoers, which had emasculated and humiliated the idealised core group of the nation. To solve society's problems one need only unmask the conspirators and eliminate them. Mussolini was ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... written by the pre-WWI Russian royal secret police in a cynical attempt to divert public blame of Russia's trouble from the monarchy to the Jews. The 'protocols' describe an imaginary conspiracy of rich Jews to dominate the world by dominating countries like puppets and turning them against each other. Hitler, already a typical anti-Semitic, believed every word. In his poor six ... ...

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... for the commencement of World War I. Lenin indicted imperialism as the principal cause of the war. Woodrow Wilson saw the culprit in secret diplomacy. Wilhelm II blamed an anti-German conspiracy led by the English. Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary quoted in his memoirs that the primary factor leading to war was the arms race. In the drafting of ... ...

• Word Count: 561
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate