British Union of Fascists

in Brussels, Belgium on May 4th, 1929. She was the daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness. Her parents, Joseph and Ella, were part of the British Union of Fascists, due to this; she spent much of her youth touring the continent with other members of this organization. She traveled through Germany with the notorious Mitford Sisters, British aristocrats went to jail for their public support of Nazi. Joseph and Ella Hepburn divorced when Audrey was very young. She was attending school…

1.Explain the connection between World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917). In the beginning Russia was sticking up for themselves against the other countries. But then Russia would begin to lose a lot of their men, there was little to no food, which made the Russians demand to drop out of the war. But Czar Nicholas II disagreed and stayed in the war which made more complications with Russia which started the Revolution, 2.Identify or define: (a) Vladimir I. Lenin, (b) Joseph…

As a member of Parliament, he warned the British of the threat posed by Nazi Germany (p. 582). Churchill did not support union trades. He was a supporter of capitalism and wanted social reform. Churchill was also a liberal. While there are many differences between these two men, there are also some similarities. Hitler and Churchill…

Major Cities Are a Bulwark Against the Tide of Right-Wing Nationalism” by Ishaan Tharoor. Tharoor writes about the celebration in London of the Battle of Cable Street which was a protest that had various groups coming together to prevent a group of fascists from marching over eighty years ago. The events that were taking place at the time were happening in the middle of Hitler’s rise to power and the rise of Nazism in Germany as well as the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy and Franco’s…

Catalonia”(1938), “Animal Farm”(1945) and “Nineteen Eighty-Four”(1949), Orwell created some of the best work the 20th century has to offer. Born as Eric Arthur Blair in Montihari, Bengal, British-India, in 1903 to “lower-upper-middle class” family, Blair spend his first months in British-India, where his father, a British Civil Servant, was stationed. Blair was the family’s second child and later the middle child, when his sister (?) was born in 1912. Shortly one year after his birth, his…

to the formation of the National Fascist Party, which was created by Mussolini and his followers. With the use of extensive propaganda Mussolini spread his message. The Blackshirt’s which was Mussolini’s militia’ staged an armed March on Rome to challenge the Italian government. Rather that supporting the governments they opposed it altogether. This led to King Emmanuel III to give up his position to Mussolini, who in turn used his power to eventually form a Fascist dictatorship. Germany and…

The Spanish Civil War was a social and political conflict that that later had an impact in the economic crisis. Spain used to be a catholic monarchy, ruled by kings and queens, and was one of the World’s most powerful countries, as it conquered a lot of territories, such as Latin America and Philippines. Spain was basically an agricultural country. In Spain, since the 19th century the owners of large lands held the power. There was an oligarchy based in land. The economy was unable to meet…

amount of civilians who died as a result of bombings, starvation, and deliberate campaigns of mass murder. The war also ushered in the atomic age and was quickly followed by the collapse of the wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Cold War. Who was Hirohito from 1926-1989 Hirohito was the emperor of Japan .Hitori took over at the time of democratic sentiment, But his country took a drastic turn to nationalism and militarism. In WW2 Japan…

Mussolini arranges a meeting between British Prime Minister Chamberlain, French President François de La Rocque and Hitler and they came to an agreement where Germany would take back the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and the Czechs are outraged that they aligned themselves with the people…

front, Hitler bombarded France using the Blitzkrieg method of invasion. After that, he pursued to surpass Britain in an air campaign, enable to invade the British Island. An air battle was fought between the German Luftwaffe, the German air force campaign, which carried out protracted bombings throughout the prominent cities, sweeping the British air force base. Britain, using radar to scope out impending aerial attacks and the Enigma to decode secret messages of plans of attack, the Nazis…