...Case Study #3: The Democrat and The Dictator Quite obviously, in Hitler’s Proclamation to the German Nation of 1933, he addresses one of the issue he believes to be the root cause of Germany’s problems. He states, “More than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all” (p 1). He goes on to say, “We never received the equality and fraternity we had been promised, and we lost our liberty to boot. For when our nation lost its political place in the world, it soon lost its unity of spirit and will” (p 1). Fourteen years ago would have been 1918, the end of World War I, followed then by the Treaty of Versailles. He also states that “the Marxist (communist) parties and their lackeys have had fourteen years to show what they can do. The result is a heap of ruins” (p 2). Clearly, he is also blaming communism for the continued ruin of Germany. FDR, on the other hand, blames “the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods”, “the unscrupulous money changers” in his First Inaugural Address of 1933. He states, the banks “failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence” (p 2). Roosevelt blames the banks for the nation’s problems. According to Hitler, there were to be two four-year plans to deal with unemployment, finance and economy, agriculture and foreign policy. First and foremost, “One decisive step is absolutely necessary first:...
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...Advances of a Democrat and Dictator Fourteen years after the devastation of World War I, the American and German nations found themselves in a period of depression and disunity. Unemployment in the US had risen to nearly 25%, while nearly one-third of Germany’s worker’s was unemployed. In a time of crisis, both countries turned to new leadership in Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler in hopes of finding salvation to pull them out of their economic and mental depressions. Looking at the terms of the depression in each country, each leader had wildly different views of the causes behind why they were put in such a terrible state. President Roosevelt believed the biggest cause of the problems the US faced was the corrupted rulers- in this case, the bankers. The United States was in a very concerned state of distress. “Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated.” (Cite One) Instead of rectifying their actions, however, all of the major bankers and corporations in the US just offered to lend even more money instead, aiming to help themselves out more than the people they claimed to be helping. The corporations begged to be trusted again, but Roosevelt believed they assumed a position of false leadership. Hitler, on the other hand, believed that there were two major causes behind the economic and moral depression in Germany:...
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...The democrat and the dictator Rodriguez Perez, Marliz Chamberlain College of Nursing HIST 410: Contemporary History May 2016 The Democrat and the Dictator Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler both came to power in 1933. World War 1 and the Great Depression had left their toll on both countries. Both countries suffered greatly and at their time of weakness these charismatic and powerful men came into power, at a time when their countries needed to believe in something to avoid all the negativity they were facing. Unemployment In his first inaugural speech Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the issue of unemployment by stating, “unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment (1933).” He further stated that the United States had plenty at its doorstep but simply needed to know how to manage what was available. He felt that his primary task was to get people jobs and he was willing to have the government recruit individuals directly. He made the people believe that by redistributing industrial centers which were overbalanced and by administering better use of the land the United Sates would provide more value to agricultural products and thereby provide job opportunities. Hitler addresses unemployment with the opening comment, “millions of the proletariat are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans have been...
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...During this time, congress selected the president for the country. The presidents of this century mainly includes: Germán Riesco Errazuriz, Pedro Montt, Ramón Barros Luco, and Juan Luis Sanfuentes. During the 1920’s, there was an increasing gap between the middle class and lower class of society (Bizzarro, 1987). Due to this gap, the masses were dissatisfied and they called a new leader, Arturo Alessandri Palma, who brought the system of election for the selection of president. He brought other changes as well such as compulsory primary education and separation between the church and state. After a few months’ service of Alessandri, Carlos Ibanez came into power and promoted public works and industry; however, he is known as a military dictator. Electoral Democracy was...
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...sufficient, the contest closed, on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot, with the election of a Republican, N. P. Banks. Meanwhile in the South, the Whigs were rapidly leaving the party, pausing a moment with the Know-Nothings, only to find that their inevitable resting-place, under stress of sectional feeling, was with the Democrats. On Washington's birthday, 1856, the Know-Nothing national convention met at Philadelphia. It promptly split upon the subject of slavery, and a portion of its membership sent word offering support to another convention which was sitting at Pittsburgh, and which had been called to form a national organization for the Republican party. A third assembly held on this same day was composed of the newspaper editors of Illinois, and may be looked upon as the organization of the Republican party in that state. At the dinner following this informal convention, Lincoln, who was one of the speakers, was toasted as "the next United States Senator." Some four months afterward, in Philadelphia, the Republicans held their first national convention. Only a few years previous its members had called themselves by various names--Democrats, Free-Soilers, Know-Nothings, Whigs. The old hostilities of these different groups had not yet died out. Consequently, though Seward was far and away the most eminent member of the new party, he was not nominated for President. That dangerous honor was bestowed upon a dashing soldier and explorer of the Rocky Mountains and the...
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...When you proved your superiority over him in station, or rank, or fortune, and that’s the end of it--he knuckles down. You can’t insult him after that or you still can, with a lost of useless time on him. People finally will change after they realized they have so much power than before. The devil side inside of Hank finally appears after he realized his knowledge is so powerful at that period, especially when someone challenged his power or someone tries to show off in front of him. Hank is so enjoying on manipulating people that he completely forgot his original motivation for becoming a normal people. His possession of power affected his apparently democratic ideal. The devil side inside of him forces him become more like a dictator not a democrat. It’s pretty ironic that the equality in Hank’s democratic ideal is not as important as the equality in democracy. Hank is so easily got provoke by people who challenged his dominant power. Being as a “God” in his country, any sort of challenge thing would never happen to him. After all he experienced in this country, he becomes...
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...as a way of countering the increasing number of white settlers. In the year1833, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was elected as the president of Mexico, a strong opposer of slavery, he dissolved the nation’s Congress and turned himself to a dictator, giving himself the Erin Rall 11-5-15 History 113 Prof. Townsend title “Napoleon of the West”. The Anglos feared that the dictator would free their slaves and make them slaves. This resulted in a rebellion against General Lopez by the Texans. War broke out, and the southern states who supported slavery rushed to the aid of the Texans (Text p....
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...to his prospects.”(122) Cicero's life (he was born in 106 B.C., in Arpinum, and died in 43 B.C.) coincided with the last golden age of the Roman republic before it was dismantled and turned into an empire. A brilliant and sometimes scathing lawyer from a well-to-do provincial family, Cicero found himself unwillingly at the heart of a 100-year civil war that pitted the traditional oligarchy of the Senate, known as the “optimates“, against a new breed of fiery class-war demagogues known as “populares“. Like our left and right, Democrats and Republicans, both parties were drawn from much the same social class, attended the same dinner parties and often saw politics as a personal power trip. But they had two radically different visions of the Roman state. The “optimates” yearned for a moderate republican status quo; the radicals wanted reforms that would eventually lead to a completely different kind of state, one ruled by a purportedly enlightened dictator. Deeply influenced by Greek culture, Cicero was by temperament still firmly entrenched in Roman tradition. Socially, he was among the "new men" of the first century B.C., a host of provincial upstarts making legal and professional careers for themselves in the booming imperial city. This...
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...advantageous to them? This question explains that democracy is a cure to certain ills; it is the voice of people. However, democracy is not as clean as it looks from the outside, it does has its own foes that needs to be answered so for that purpose we are going to compare it with dictatorship and in conclusion establish which system is better than the other. Like democracy, dictatorship has also its own advantages and disadvantages. Dictatorship is believed to be a system where the power is centralized and rests with one person called the dictator. As it is a centralized system of governance it carries with it all the advantages a centralized system has and it has to cater to all the disadvantages a centralized system has to deal with. However, it is to be regretted in the very beginning that dictatorship has got a much worse of image as compared to democracy due to certain reasons, which is, dictatorship carries with it an image of dictators like Hitler and Saddam hussain, which maligns the image further than its actual image. Dictatorship is not a much supported system as can be imagined by the fact that UN (United Nations) endorses the democratic form of government and has established the “United Nations Democracy Fund” to strengthen democratic institutions and practices...
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..."not like us." It seeks order and stability at all costs. It subscribes to a command-and-obey or "top down" or hierarchical mentality. This is directly opposed to a democratic or "horizontal" mentality, characterized by openmindness, cooperation, and respect for others as equals. In the article, “The Rise of American Authoritarianism,” Amanda Taub makes three claims: First, Donald Trump is backed by authoritarians who feel threatened by social, political, and economic changes in the U.S.; Second, the GOP’s appeal to traditionalism and law-and-order has attracted “a vast and previously bipartisan population of Americans with authoritarian tendencies,” insuring there will be more Trump-like candidates in the future; and lastly, since ”Democrats, by contrast, have positioned themselves as the party of civil rights, equality, and social progress…” they can be absolved of any charge of harboring authoritarians. Furthermore, this article states that Trump supporters are rigid, fear-triggered, authoritarian personalities - it's attempting to pathologize a political viewpoint. And that itself is a dangerous step towards another form of authoritarianism. Convincing yourself that a group is irrational and driven by baser instincts like fear allows you to discredit and marginalize the person, without considering the ideas and viewpoints they espouse. It can create a group of "dangerous others" in your mind, and makes it easier to justify careful monitoring and controlling the danger group...
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...is the foundation of this conflict. I think that it was a mixture of the Russian Revolution, the ongoing “war” between the Bolsheviks and Germany which opened the doors to the communist form of government that Russia adopted following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, and the economic conditions of the years following World War I that planted the seeds for the Cold War. I believe that the collapse of Russia had the largest impact on World War I and lead to the animosity that sparked World War II and the Cold War as well. The first incident took place in March 1917 when the Russian government was originally overthrown and fell into the hands of “members of the Duma, who formed a provisional government composed chiefly of Constitutional Democrats with Western sympathies”...
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...First, he accomplishes being the first leader to spread communism in the western hemisphere which was the USSR’s goal and effort to beat the United States from spreading democracy. Castro’s revolution can also be classified as good because he overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, a strict military dictator. Batista needed to be overthrown because he abused his power and became seriously corrupt. In fact the United States cut relations with Batista because he was so corrupt. Castro also had great social policies throughout his rule. He “expanded educational opportunities, health facilities and jobs secured support of the majority” as well which made him a great leader. On the other hand, Castro can also be classified as a bad leader too. He can be considered a bad leader because he declared his regime free of communist and then later resorts to communism, like the Soviets. He also imprisoned political dissenters and was harsh to...
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...Case Study #3 The Democrat and the Dictator Jazmyn D. Mitchell Chamberlain College of Nursing For our Week 3 online lesson, we were assigned to learn about the rise of charismatic leaders of the 1930s who dramatically changed the world (CCN, 2016). The two leaders I learned most about where Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. According to Week 3 online lesson, “Franklin D. Roosevelt was a practical politician with charismatic qualities who provided leadership during the Great Depression” (CCN, 2016). He was considered or labeled as being a dominant leader figure to the people of the United States preceding World War II (CCN, 2016). “During his first week in office, he called a special session of Congress, declared a bank holiday, sponsored an Emergency Banking Act, and held his first fireside chat” (CCN, 2016). In accordance to Week 3 online lesson, he promised the American people a “New Deal” for America, which consisted of relief, recovery, and reform (CCN, 2016). FDR promised to provide jobs for the unemployed, protect farmers from foreclosure, conserve farmlands, rebuild the economy, abolish child labor, and regulate banks (CCN, 2016). According to Week 3 online lesson, “Adolf Hitler was a charismatic leader who rose to power in Germany during the intra-war period” (CCN, 2016). Through what they labeled as their period of dissatisfaction and uncertainty, Hitler had the support of the German people (CCN, 2016). It is understood in the lesson that Hitler had more...
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...To what extent does the PM dominate the UK political system? Some say that the Britain has entered an era of elective dictatorship; this is when a government that is elected but has won so many votes that it can do what It likes1. In the UK we have a first past the post voting system so theoretically speaking once elected government can do as they please as they have been given the power to do so by the majority of voters who voted them in. The Prime Minister is the head of government and as head of the executive he has powers that can portray him as a dictator not someone representing the ideas of the general population. For example the conservative government introduced ‘the bedroom tax’ if this was David Cameron’s idea he has the power to ensure that his party vote for this law even if they disagree. In this essay I will evaluate evidence on how much the PM dominates the political system in the UK and conclude by giving my opinion on to what extent he controls the political system. The PM is head of the executive and seen as the most important figure of UK politics, with this comes powers and responsibility’s that arguably makes him the most powerful man in the country. The ability to hand pick your cabinet is a key factor on how much the PM controls the political system of, being able to choose who does what job in the country means the PM holds the careers and more importantly the livelihoods of the ministers in his hand because he has the ability to hire and fire ministers...
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...Russia & USSR -What are the main geographical features of Russia? Including population: does that make Russia easy to govern? -Who makes up the different groups in Russian society? What is the life for them? Are they contented citizens or discontented citizens? -How influential is the Church in Russia at this time? -Who is Tsar, what is his style of rule and does he have the right leadership attributes to be Tsar. -What political particles exist at this time? Who are the key political figures and what does each group want? Question 1: * Russia has a very large empire. Covered one-sixth of the world’s total land * It stretches over 4000miles long from west to east * It stretches over 2000miles long from north to south * In northern Russia, the place is often frozen for most of the year. * Communications were difficult * The southern part of tundra consists of miles and miles of impenetrable forests. * In the far south there lies the desert. * Most of this land is really beautiful and dramatic, but only little of it can be used for farming. Therefore, most farming is done in the European side of Russia. * Most people were living in the European side of Russia where most of the farming is done. * However, there was only one railway called the trans-Siberian railway, which connected the eastern and western Russia. It took more than a week to get from Moscow to Vladivostok. Question 2: * The Russian population is over 130...
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