... to be taught in schools and anyone who disagreed with his party or its ideas was eliminated. He used strict censorship to limit other political parties from trying to rise into power. Mussolini gave himself the name "Il Duce" or "the Leader". Some of his fascist ideas strayed from ... what ideological fascist views were at the time. Like fascist ideology, Mussolini was anti-democratic because he wanted to be the absolute ruler and achieved this when he became dictator of Italy. However, unlike fascism, he did not believe in ... anti-semitism. Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 193...

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... Republic after the Wall Street Crash. This was on top of the significant minority of society who had never believed in it or its principles, with over 20% voting against democratic parties upon the Republic's inception in 1919. Added to this is Hitler as an individual. His charisma and cunning cannot be overlooked, which manifested themselves in increased support and several successful ... 's had won 37.4% of the vote to become the largest party in the Reichstag. This shows that more people supported the Nazis anti-Weimar regime than any of the centrist parties and the widespread support...

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... did not seize power, nor did he win it. Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of a constitutional republic, theoretically subject to democratic checks and balances. Hitler's path to power was all very official, and absolutely within the legalities of the democratic Constitution. So which steps were taken after this legal action to create an authoritative dictator? Leading up to Hitler's appointment at ... , political opponents were either imprisoned or fled the country; the Reichstag then surrendered its powers, giving Hitler control of the legislature. Soon thereafter the trade unions were ...

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After World War I, the emperor and military commander of Germany relinquished their political power, leading to its ultimate transfer to the hands of the German Social Democratic Party. This was a large groups of "moderate" Marxists that pushed for socialist reforms but not the great changes of property and wealth management that the Bolsheviks of Russia ... offset, the detriment was still quite prominent. Because there were people voting for each and every party, there was no true majority party in the Reichstag at the time. The parties often argued and were very slow and inefficient in pas...

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... representation (PR) no party could solely form a government. The large governments had to work with smaller ones in a 'coalition' government. This is obviously a problem, because these parties could never really compromise on a decision. The five parties active then, therefore, were not successful at what each of them were trying to achieve. Article 48 of the German Constitution allowed the President to pass ... in January 1933? The early 30s saw President Hindenburg and chancellor Bruning ruling by decree. This meant they were making decisions by themselves without consulting the Reich...

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... with feelings of betrayal towards those who did not fight in the war. The army felt they had been undefeated on the battlefield but they had been betrayed by Germany's democratic leaders, known as the "November Criminals." (Spielvogel 28) This blaming of those on the home front, called the stab in the back theory, gave Nazis an opportunity to promote Nationalism ... toward parliamentary democracy. Mayer was told " National Socialism was a revulsion by my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government-against all the higgling and haggling of the pa...

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... work and bread. The Nazis pursue their political aims with aggressive violence. In 1930 - twelve years after it's founding - the parties that supported the republic lost their majority. Right-wing parties take over the government and begin to take apart the democratic system. In the elections of 1932, National Socialists became the strongest party. The votes of the National Socialists are now needed ... ...

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... allowed the indefinite arrest of people without trial. This was crucial to the Nazi regime because arrests were the most common form of oppression of the opposition. The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the KPD (Communist Party) were two opposition groups in Germany that had the majority of the support of the working class, who made up 45% of the population ... policies were geared towards winning the hearts and minds of the masses and both were successful in achieving their goals. The oppression of the opposition also worked effectively for both parties, although Mao's policy was not ...

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... German government. In 1933 Hitler's Nazi party was voted into power and Hitler became Germany's Chancellor or prime minister and within a year he had managed to get rid of the democratic government and made him a dictator. Countries that were led by a dictator had no say in anything. There was no free speech co if someone criticized the dictator or his party ... wasn't any legal freedom so the police could arrest anyone they liked and keep them in prison without a trail. The Nazi party wasn't really any different to the other political parties it only had different views on how to run t...

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