The Similarities Of Adol Adolf Hitler And John F. Kennedy

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A great leader named John Quincy Adams said “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a LEADER.” People all over the world are leaders whether that means the President and Vice President of the United States of America, student council President or Vice President, captain of a sports team and etc. What you do and say determines whether you will go down in history as a great leader or a bad leader. For example John C. Maxwell said this “A LEADERS attitude’s is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions”. In the history of the World we know good leaders with excellent quality’s and we know leaders with terrible quality’s also. An example of terrible qualities will be Adolf Hitler and great qualities will be John F. Kennedy. The difference between Adolf Hitler and John F. Kennedy are prominent but the similarities are clear. …show more content…
He was the fourth out of the six children that his parents had and at the age of three his family moved from Austria to Germany. While he was growing up his father and him never really say eye to eye and I think it was because of Hitler’s passion for the Arts which his father never approved of. Hitler as a young boy agreed with German Nationalism. The definition of nationalism according to dicatory.com means a sentiment based on common cultural characteristic that blinds a population and often produces a policy of national independence or separatism. During this part of World History the German people where rejecting the authority of the Austria-Hungry

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