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- 151: Anne Frank
- On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank, and her parents were Edith ... will never happen again. As Anne said in her diary, "In spite of everything, I still believe, people are truly good at heart". The Holocaust was the almost complete destruction of European Jews by Nazi Germany. When Nazi regime came to power in Germany in 1933, it immediately began to take systematic measures against Jews. The Nazi Party, government agencies, banks, and business enterprises made concerted efforts to eliminate Jews from economic life and from German life in ...
- 152: ... few that thought it might be possible to give life to an inanimate creature. "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin and some of the physiological writers of Germany as not of impossible occurrence."(Shelley xxvii) Today with the advancements recently made with cloning, it almost seems possible to create a life form from inanimate objects. Because scientists are able to clone a sheep ...
- 153: 1984 3
- ... lots of symbols representing the situation of the world at that time. Next, I will compare the methods of government and social control used in the story and the ones used in Italy, Russia, and Germany. First symbol is Big Brother, an organization running a totalitarianism control of the people. It symbolizes the Russian, Italian, and Germanys governments. At the time the book was released, Russia was ruled by Joseph Stalin. Stalin ruled Russia as a dictator from 1922-1953. Italy, at the same time as Stalin government, was ruled by Benito Mussolini (1922-1943). He was the founder and leader of Italian Fascism. While Germany was ruled by Hitler with his Nazi party. In the story, the government put Big Brother pictures everywhere with the saying, "Big Brother is Watching You, and also the famous propaganda, War is Peace, Freedom ... did this sort of thing to raise the reputation of the leaders, and it is also used to warn the citizens that they should not do anything in opposition to the government. Russia, Italy and Germany also had the same kind of social control like 1984. Stalin had icons, statues, busts, and images of him all over Russia, public buildings, schoolrooms, and homes. Mussolini and Hitler also did the same ...
- 154: Socialism
- ... moderate socialist doctrines, for example, those of the FABIAN SOCIETY in England, founded by Sidney WEBB and including among its adherents the writers H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw; those of Ferdinand LASSALLE in Germany; and of Louis BLANC in France. These moderates sought to achieve socialism by parliamentary means and by appealing deliberately to the middle class. Fabianism had as one of its intellectual forebears the utilitarian individualism of ... benefits and burdens; socialism would be the triumph of common sense, the inevitable outcome of LIBERALISM, the extension of democracy from politics to industry. CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM spread from its beginnings in England to France and Germany. Charles KINGSLEY, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1821-1911), and Frederick Denison MAURICE were among its founders. They in the main supported moderate social democracy, emphasizing what they understood as the central message of the church ... spokesman Eduard BERNSTEIN, a personal friend of Marx and Engels, who was, however, also influenced by English Fabian ideas. Bernstein repudiated the notion of violent revolution and argued that conditions in civilized countries such as Germany made possible a peaceful, gradual transformation to socialism. He sought to reinterpret Marxist doctrine in the light of fresh advances made in economic science, such as those also embraced in Fabian doctrine, and argued ...
- 155: Fascism Compared To Communism
- Fascism Compared to Communism Analyze the similarities and the differences between single party rule in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia between 1933 and 1945. Answers should consider: methods of dealing with opposition, control of media and education, control of the economy, and war time planning. --- Why is it that Germany's fascism lasted a relatively short time compared to Russia's communism? The regimes established under Hitler and Stalin were incredibly similar with respect to the rise and control of the state. Both systems were ... a man with such dangerous ideas. Lenin planned his revolution while in exile in Switzerland. Then he made a deal with the German government whereby he was hid on a train and passed through enemy Germany to Russia. The conclusions with respect to methods of acquiring power and controlling it when they did get it were very much the same. Both rulers had full run of their respective governments. Stalin ...
- 156: Albert Einstien
- By: Shaun Devlin E-mail: Harryof@hotmail.com Men and Women of Science Albert Einstein Early Life Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on Mar. 14, 1879. Einstein's parents, who were non observant Jews, moved from Ulm to Munich, Germany when Einstein was an infant. The family business was the manufacture of electrical parts. When the business failed, in 1894, the family moved to Milan, Italy. At this time Einstein decided officially to end his ... When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions about the general theory of relativity, Einstein was bombarded by the popular press. Einstein's personal ethics also fired public imagination. Einstein, who after returning to Germany in 1914 did not reapply for German citizenship, was one of only a handful of German professors who remained a pacifist and did not support Germany's war aims. After the war, when the ...
- 157: Hitler 3
- ... full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) called for short, Nazi. Hitler and his Nazi party grew rapidly and before you know it Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler despised and overthrew other political parties. He gained popular vote from people by limmiting unemployeement, he gave people their pride back and everyone agreed with him on his views of the treaty of Versailles ... hatred of the Jews. It began with a simple boycott on April 1, 1933 and would end years later in the greatest tragedy in all of human history. 1938 Austria and Czechoslovakia is invaded by Germany to free German minority and to really begin Hitlers plan of world domination. Hitler signed a peace treaty with Britain while chamberlain was in charge, the Munich agreement. Chamberlain not taking a firm stand ... and arrested. The smart and fortunate Jews deport early. Hitlers plan of the master race begins, and the foundation for war has been built. Stalin with his unprepared military signed a nonaggression pact with Germany once seeing that Germany would take over Poland and start the World War 2. 1939 nazis proceeded toward the plan to exterminate all Jews. The holocaust begins. In 1940 Germany took over France by ...
- 158: The Holocaust
- ... and supported the liberals. This made the Germans see the Jews as the symbol of all they feared. Following the defeat of the Germans in WW1, the Treaty Of Versailles and the UN resolutions against Germany raised many militaristic voices and formed extreme nationalism. Hitler took advantage of the situation and rose to power in 1933 on a promise to destroy the Treaty Of Versailles that stripped Germany off land. Hitler organized the Gestapo as the only executive branch and secret terror organization of the Nazi police system. In 1935, he made the Nuremberg Laws that forbid Germans to marry Jews or commerce ... related to the Treaty Of Versailles. When Hitler began his move to conquer Europe, he promised that no person of Jewish background would survive. Before the start of the second world war, the Jews of Germany were excluded from public life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but allowed to emigrate. When the war was officially declared, emigration ended and 'the final solution to the Jewish ...
- 159: Otto Van Bismarck And State So
- ... trait that led him to his downfall. Many times, Bismarck used foreign policy to insure German security. It is especially clear, when we read that history on the three emperors and the dual alliance. Because Germany was in the center of Europe, it had powerful neighbors along its borders. Germany did not want to fight against Russia and France at the same time, and fights two battlefronts could lead to the destruction of Germany. France alone had no immediate threat, but if, by chance, it formed an alliance, Germany would be in grave danger. To prevent this, Bismarck sought out two other countries ~ Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary, ...
- 160: Nazism
- Nazism The most merciless and cruel party in the world, was under the role of Adolf Hitler, their violence remained a deep gash in the western world history. Nazism was originated in Germany in the early 1920s. It was the doctrines or practices of the Nazi party. Nazism was a shortened version of the tern National Socialism, denoting the doctrine and form of government of Nazi Germany under the rule of Adolf as enunciated in his book Mein Kampf. The term was an abbreviation of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German National Socialist Worker Party). National Socialist German Workers Party founded in 1919 on fascist principles and dominant from 1933 to 1945 in Germany. The party's principles were essentially antidemocratic and racist. Hitler borrowed considerably from the Italian Fascist and Soviet Communist Systems, but the Nazi pseudoscientific racist theories were original German contributions. In the past storm ...
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