... the notoriety of the action so that the people would not lose popular confidence in him. His solution was OVRA, a secret police force who built concentration camps on the Lipari Islands for anyone who opposed Mussolini and the Fascists. Similar to the Nazi's and the Bolsheviks ... , a secret police force ensure any political ideas or people that endangered the party would be dealt with quietly and effectively. So now, with his power ... he had to do and became a dictator. Following in the footsteps of Mussolini, immediately all other political parties were banned, newspapers were censor...

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... 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, and censored academic activity. Meanwhile, Mussolini preached the end of class conflict and its replacement by national unity. He began to reorganize the economy and labor, taking ... mass party, led by one man, which forms the hardcore of the regime and which is typically superior to or intertwined with the governmental bureaucracy. 2. A system of terror by the pol...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... degenerate books and paintings, sterilized mentally and physically disabled people, and enslaved and murdered millions of people who were enemies of the Reich. To uphold these ideologies, Hitler created the "secret police," known as the Gestapo. The head of the Gestapo, who reported only to Hitler himself, was Heinrich Himmler. Hitler then created the "New Order," which would supposedly lead to industrialization ... to Eastern Siberia seven times between April 1902 and March 1913. He escaped many times to return and wreak havoc upon the tsarist government. In 1905, he went to the secret...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... his position as a dictator. For three years all of the Soviet Union's people lived in fear, this included members of the Communist Party, the government, military personnel and even his secret police themselves. During this time over 15 million people were arrested and over 3 million of them were killed either through execution or from the oppressive conditions in labor camps. During Stalin ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School