... the cabinet system and all but extinguished the powers of the Parliament. He made the Fascist party an integral part of the Italian constitution. Mussolini assumed the dual position of prime minister and party leader (duce), and he used the party's militia to eliminate his enemies by intimidation and violence. Mussolini's government also controlled the police, muzzled the press, ... marriage ceremonies mandatory. In fact, Mussolini's regime did much to maintain the status quo. Party officers exercised some political supervision over bureaucrats yet did not infiltrate the bureaucracy in ...

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... . They needed someone who could pull them up out of poverty, restore their faith in Germany and help them rebuild their lives after WWI. After Hitler's Mein Kampf, in growing numbers, people started to listen to Hitler's ideas. He promised the people a way out of the economic crash Germany was in, to restore pride in themselves and their country, and presented ... soldiers, demanded that the government be entrusted to his party. He threatened to seize power by force if his conditions were refused. As the Fascisti readied for a march on Rome, Prime Minister Luigi Facta resigned. On Octobe...

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... accusing them of attempting revolution. The brutality of Hitler and the Nazi party grew as they set forth to humiliate and destroy the Jews who were seen to be the prime cause of Germany's problems. "Hitler himself had an obsessive hatred of Jewish people and from 1933 he was able to use his power to persecute them." On April 1 Hitler's persistent ... a decade the Jews continued to be harassed by firstly having their food and clothing reduced, then later being forced to live in ghettos or work in labour camps. Eventually great numbers were executed or sent to horrifying death camps. Gyp...

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... decided on the spot to assassinate Ferdinand. The original team who were recruited consisted of three young Bosnians: Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez. Yet, due to the large numbers of government and army members involved in the Black Hand organization, the activities and actions of this group were fairly well known to the Serbian government - which, in this case ... , put Prime Minister Pasic in a very difficult position. On the one hand if he did nothing and the plot suceeded, the Black Hand's involvement would without a doubt become well known. This coupled ... ...

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... bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were methodically massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and horribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was expropriated."".""(www.armenian-genocide.org ... of 1.200 people under the command of an Armenian named Hanov kill lots of Turkish people. For these reasons, Talat Pasha, sent a communiqué dated 26 May 1915 to the Prime Ministry to made imm...

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