Adlof Hitler and Joseph Stalin were the two of the most powerful dictators in the world during the 20th century.
Mithun Thomas Mathew 0 T 28/8/2001 COMPARE AND CONTRAST ADLOF HITLER'S GERMANY AND JOSEPH STALIN'S RUSSIA Adlof Hitler and Joseph Stalin were the two of the most powerful dictators in the world during the 20th century. Their rules have had enormous contributions towards changing the structure of the social, economical and political impact around the world. They were there in world wars and the cold war. Their systems were based on ideology, goals and cruel desires. THE ESTABLISHMENT: Hitler established his government according to the thing that he had written in the "Mein Kampf". Hitler wanted the world; "Germany must grow". The government in Russia established by Lenin was based on a book called "The communist manifesto" by Karl Marx. Hitler came to power through elections. Stalin came to power after the death of Lenin; Stalin came to control the Bolsheviks and defeated the Russian government in a civil war for a quest of power. These two men had very little history in modeling their revolutions. SINGLE PARTY STATE: Hitler and Stalin's one of the most important aspects of dictatorships was their brutal method of gaining power and support. Hitler dictated Germany with ascend to that level power he rammed the Enabling act through the German Congress in 1933 which gave him power to enact, laws. Under Article 1 of his new power, Hitler declared that only existing party
Stalin and the War
STALIN´S ECONOMIC POLICES: SUCESS OR FAILURE? INDUSTRIALISATION COLLECTIVISATION Reasons the policy was adopted o The policy was adopted because Russia was a country in which almost the industry was concentrated in just a few cities and whose workers were unskilled and poorly educated. Many of the regions were in the same backward state as they had been 100 later. Stalin said:" If you are backward and weak you may be in the wrong and may be beaten and enslaved. But if you are powerful people must beware you" o Stalin needed to modernize the USSR´s agriculture. This was vital because the population of the industrial centres was growing rapidly and in early 1928 the country was 2 million tons short of grain it needed to feed its workers. o Stalin also wanted to try to raise money for his industrialisation programme by selling exports of surplus food abroad. Measures to be taken o He set a series of FIVE-YEAR PLANS. o He set the GOSPLAN: target for production in the vital heavy industry: COAL, IRON, OIL, ELECTRICITY. Each region was told its targets, then each mine, factory, etc, then each manager, then each foreman, then each individual worker. By 1929 every worker knew what he or she had to achieve. o Peasants were to put their lands together to form large join farms ( kolkhoz) but could keep small spots for personal use. o Animals and tools were to be pooled
Links between the two regimes of Lenin and Stalin.
"They're the same", my father once exclaimed. For if we believe the dominant 'traditional' intentionalist argument, put forward by cold- war era historians, then there indeed exists a direct link between Stalinism and Leninism, and that the socio- economic and political base provided by Lenin resulted in the excesses of Stalinism. Unlike Stalin's personal soviet viewpoint, which advocates that he was the Lenin of the day shedding a positive light on his own policies, which he said were the rightful extensions and correct fulfilments of Lenin's basic principles, the totalitarian argument shows us that the Stalinist experiment became "a nation's tragedy"1. While of course, Trotskyites, the first line of opposition to this case, believe that Stalinism broke with Leninism. They strongly favour the fact that Stalin perverted the basically democratic progressive nature of Leninism into a personal dictatorship. It is was a "Thermidorian negation...[and] betrayal"2 of the basic Bolshevik beliefs. Deutscher, took up this view, and proved that the only way Stalin stayed revolutionary was "not in the sense that he remained true to all the original ideas of the revolution, but because he put into practice a fundamentally new principle"3 of socio- economic and political organisation. This 'clear break' theory between the two regimes, was taken up most famously by Khrushchev who, while
"Stalin was a great leader who made the Soviet Union into a modern world power and led it to victory in the Second World War."
History- Grade 10 Eva Frauke Göhring Stalin Essay "Stalin was a great leader who made the Soviet Union into a modern world power and led it to victory in the Second World War." Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1928-1953. He managed to get rid of his opponents to rule on his own and became Lenin's successor. Stalin was a dictator but under him The Soviet Union developed from a backward country to a world power. Stalin had many achievements during his reign, like the industrialisation of Russia, which turned it in a much more modern and developed country, and the creating of loads of jobs. But people also suffered under Stalin. Many were taken into labour camps, famine broke out, and under Stalin a time known as the Terror came up. The greatest achievement of Stalin's policies was the industrialisation of Russia. In order to industrialise Russia, Stalin had to provide the towns and workers with food. Since the peasants were unwilling to sell extra grain because they wanted higher prices Stalin had to find a solution for ensuring a good food supply. Therefore he came up with the idea of collectivisation. This was that in selected areas peasants had to join their small farms together and form larger farms. These "collectives" were sometimes as big as a village, some even included schools and hospitals, and had to provide a fixed amount of food to the
How Significant were the Normandy landings in Defeating Germany in World War Two?
. Using source A and your own knowledge explain why the D-day was such an important event of World War two? D-Day was such an important event of World War Two for numerous amounts of reasons. The term 'D-Day' actually means 'The Day'. As said by Major Elson, it is the day where "everyone does something". Major Elson fought on the Italian front, which is demonstrated on the map. D-Day was to be June 1944 minutes between night turning to morning on the 6th. The Germans had occupied France and France needed Britain, Canada and America to come together to regain the French territory for them. As well as this, Russia was fighting of Germany in the East and needed the Allies to relieve pressure. D-Day was a very important part into ending the war but other factors include the Battle of the Atlantic, the fighting in North Africa and the Battle of Britain. Arriving at Normandy using the Mulberry harbours, the Allies captured all of the five designated beaches (Omaha, Juno, Gold, Sword and Utah) despite strong German coastal defences. This is mainly due to the opposing armies having no idea to where the Allied forces would be landing because no place in France were called those names. The map shows where the troops entered France and this also clearly enforces the sheer scale of the invasion and its importance into keeping it top secret. Meanwhile, parachutists were flown in nearly
Women in World War Two
Women In World War Two Question 1: Describe the ways in which women's work in the home contributed to the war effort. During the Second World War women played a much more significant role than ever before, this was partly to do with the contribution and effort they put into it. The most important contributions were in rationing, evacuation and safety. When the first evacuation took place in September 1939, 800,000 school children and 520,000 children under the age of five were sent away by train to the British countryside. For both mother and father it was incredibly hard to let go of their children. It was especially hard for the mothers, as they were the ones that looked after the children on a daily basis, while the man of the house went out to work. The mothers were under a lot of stress not knowing where their children may end up living. It was also hard for the women that received the evacuees, as they not only had to look after their own children, but to take care of other children who were strangers to them. Sometimes children from the city would turn up unwashed and bad mannered, this was difficult for country women to adjust to. Rationing was a reasonable way of making sure everyone had their fair share of goods, but it did create some difficulties and problems. There was always the problem of not having enough to go around, there were long queues outside local
Women During World War Two
Women During World War Two During World War II, women all over Britain contributed significantly towards the war effort by taking over the jobs that the men who were fighting had, and more importantly, by keeping order in the household. Question 1. British women played a very important part in the war effort by the contributions they made in their homes, which were acknowledged and greatly appreciated. Women in Britain had to take on the role of both mother and father during the war, as the man of the house would be fighting for his country. A woman would have to come home and look after the children, and was solely responsible for their safety. She had to do all of the washing, cleaning and mending around the house, as well as provide a nutritious and filling meal for the children, so she had to be sensible and responsible with the rationings, putting her family before herself. Women also started gardening as well, this was greatly encouraged by the government and the media, because if a woman would cook and eat home-grown vegetables, it would help a lot with rationing elsewhere, and the children would have more to eat. The most important thing the women had to do was ensure the safety of their families. There were many different things to remember in order to achieve this. A woman had to be extremely aware of things like air-raid sirens, because if one went off,
Why did the Axis powers lose World War Two Essay Plan
Why did the Axis powers lose World War Two Paragraph: Failure of Italy * Italy was the weakest part of the Axis powers, Germany were constantly bailing Italy eg. Greece, Crete so strained German resources even further * Italy failed in Greece (1940-41), Germany bailed them out which cost them and stretched their forces further * North Africa Campaign (1940-1943) Italy's Fort Capuzzo in Libya which was occupied by British forces and Italy couldn't push the British out , so Germany had to intervene , which stretched them further * 1943- invasion of Sicily, Italy eventually fell to the Allies and declared war on Germany * Without Italy, Germany wouldn't of been stretched further, as wouldn't of had to bail Italy out again * By Germany bailing Italy out in Greece it delayed their invasion of the USSR, therefore had to deal with the Russian winter, which is a key reason why they didn't win and Russia drove German forces back to Berlin * Without Italy Germany might not of been distracted in North Africa, Greece and Crete and would have been less stretched and less drained of resources Paragraph: Japanese aggression and entry of USA * Japanese aggression had been shown in (date) when Japan broke the terms of the League of Nations and attacked Manchuria, China, and as a result left the League of Nations * Japanese wanted to seize control of more economic resources
What is "Total War"? Discuss with reference to World War One and World War Two.
What is "Total War"? Discuss with reference to World War One and World War Two. First of all, what is "Total War"? What do we mean by it and what answer do we expect from this question? Total War is the war that affects all of society- not just armed forces, and that uses all the resources available to be able to win it. It's "the mobilization of the whole society and its resources for the war effort." In most of the countries the first Total War was the First World War. World War One started a completely new generation of wars. Before 1914 wars only affected the army and had no change on the lives of ordinary people. At earlier times small professional armies fought the wars, which means that all the men were especially trained for fighting. Well, those two wars- World War One and World War Two were different. Everyone fought them and everyone provided as much help as possible, it didn't matter whether the person was skilled or unskilled, old or young, male or female. In this essay I will also investigate why were World War One and World War Two called Total Wars. The first thing that comes to mind is the scale of war. It was tremendous. I am going to start from speaking about World War One and then later on about World War Two. World War One was a completely new style of wars, the changes were unbelievable, in fact the historians even see the World War One as "the
The World Since 1945 - The End of the Stalin Era.
The World Since 1945 - T.E.Vadney The End of the Stalin Era Some members of the Societ politburo wanted a change. The death of stalin on 5 March 1953 gave them their chance. For some time several of their number had argued in favour of a "new course" - in other words, concessions to raise the standard of living and to win the minds and herats of people through the Communist Bloc. Yet even after 1953 Soviet policy vacillated between reform and retrenchment. The failure to define a coherent programme of action in the face of impending rebellion was the result of a leadership crisis inside the USSR itself, as a struggle for power developed among Stalin's heirs. The problem, though, went much deeper than simply the question of leadership. More to the point, none of the reforms which even the moderates were prepared to concede went so far as to alter the undemocratic character of the East european order, and so the legitimacy of communist rule was still in question. The governments of the region were to remain under the control of a communist ruling elite whose authority was based on its monopoly of state power and whose interest were not always compatible with those of the people at large. Shortly after Stalin's death a system of collective leadership was announced in Moscow: Malenkov - regarded as the heir apparent. Only fifty-one, he immediately took Stalin's place,
