The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...
With the use of his secret police or the Gestapo, Hitler eliminated the leaders of his S.A. and all the other leaders that were seen as a threat to his leadership. ... Stalin felt that he needed to secure his leadership so he ordered to execute those who tried to oppose him. ...
The next day, Hitler and 3,000 troopers began a march to storm into the heart of Berlin, and proclaim his new leadership. ... He came out with many powerful ideas: The survival of the strong through struggle: the strong must fight against the weak and overcome them, to prevent the weak undermining the strong The acquisition of living space for settlement: this would be gained through struggle at expense of weak Racism, based on anti-Semitism and the idea of the master race; the Germanic master race, healed at internal divisions by the elimination of organised la...
Devils in Disguise "Under idealism nothing exists except the mind. Whoever controls the mind controls everything. Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? The answer is most definitely "yes!- Ev...
The men of Easy Company are willing to die for one another. But how did such bonds form? It all began at Camp Toccoa where 140 volunteer men go through a six month training course to be Parachute Infantry. "These nineteen-and-twenty-year-old enlisted men, free from the restraints of home and cultur...
To what extent can Hitler be held responsible for the outbreak of world war two? It seems that Hitler did have consistent aims and plans which would be carried out when he came to power. His dream was to build a "new Germany" under his own leadership, to overturn the treaty of Versailles and to ...
The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state. The Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles proved to weaken the once world super power immensely. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. This vulnerable state helped aid Hitler in his grasp f...
Like any other leader, Hitler recognized that for absolute control of the nation, he would have to have the support of the people. He would require total support from the people of Germany for his ideologies of Nazism to grow, and without the backing of the people, Hitler would not be capable of go...
Ku Klux Klan A secret terrorist organization that originated in the southern states during the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War and was reactivated in the 20th century. The Ku Klux Klan believed in the innate inferiorityof black so therefore mistrusted adn resented...
In some ways, this statement is true because the Weimar Republic grew in strength because of Gustav Stresemann and his intervention, the introduction of the new German currency and many other things, but in reality this was a false dawn because there was still opposition from the left and right, and...
The great depression of the US not only affected people domestically, but internationally as well. It formed modern government in many countries, made drastic legislative changes, and even spurred a major war for many countries. The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "new deal" legislation, which changed the United States. The war had left Europe in shambles. ...
As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. We can explore how Democracy had failed in Nazi, Germany and relate it to the events, which surround...
In the years between 1933 to 1945 the Gestapo took on many changes in its structure and leadership, and as a result of this the functions of the Gestapo became unclear and were often integrated with those of other units of the German forces (Mainly SS units). ...
Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. Countries stopped trusting one another only sharpening existing rivalries. World War II officially began in September of 1939 when Britain and France declared...