Single-party state

Personality Study: Albert Speer “Describe THREE key events that were influential in the rise to prominence of the personality you have studied.” Albert Speer joined the Nazi party due to an intense reaction to the personal nature of Hitler's call to arms. While Speer was working at a university in Berlin, Hitler came to address the students and teachers. Speer was immediately impressed by the blue suit Hitler wore because how he presented himself was completely different to the…

In what ways, and with what success, did one authoritarian or single-party ruler deal with internal opposition? Existing internal political, military, social and economic opposition in Nazi german was dealt with by both legal and illegal means with varying degrees of success. Hitler’s exploitation of situations and use of violence allowed him to successfully destroy threats from other party’s as well as within the NSDAP as well as potential economic opponents. Violence as a method was mostly…

held independence and his leadership of a party that directly caused the deaths of millions of innocent people. This seemingly notorious personality was born on April 20, 1889 into an average family, part of the lower-middle class of society (History.com Staff, 2009).…

So why kill one another when each of us is unique in our own way The main reason why I think this superfluous war took place is because of the famous crazy head, Adolf Hitler. “Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party”. Hitler hated the Jews, as he…

“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’” (Orwell 34). George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel set only 35 years after it was published, establishes this statement as a continuous central theme of its government, often referred to as the Party. As long as one is powerful enough in his or her words, one can make an audience believe an utter lie about a real event, no matter the amount of people that saw it happen before…

The Holocaust: Extermination or simple segregation? The spark that ignited the flame of Adolf Hitler’s hate started in 1918, when he learned of the German surrender to the Allies of World War One. Enraged, he blamed the surrender on the people in Germany, such as the Jews and Slavs, which he considered to be undesirable and sought to build a Germany were no weakness could hold it down. Hitler sent the undesirables of Germany’s occupation to camps where they were exterminated, and the evidence of…

definition seems to reflect the very real fear of mob uprising. Certainly, it’s tone insinuates an image of mob citizenry diametrically opposed to a smaller elite. However, although this image may have captured this political component of the United States in November 1787, a closer inspection yields a less controversial interpretation. The fact that Madison includes the word “minority” in this definition of faction shifts the focus away from the idea that the majority itself is fearsome and…

their plans for Syrian refugees, each with carefully crafted rhetoric to detail what might be if they are elected. One of the leading Republican candidates, Dr. Ben Carson, is of the same stance as most members of his party, that the U.S. should not accept Syrian refugees. Carson states…

The Internet's effect on political parties has always been present but it recently became very prevalent, especially in this year’s presidential election. It was present in many ways from social media, to Internet polls and even emails. The two frontrunners of the presidential election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, were very involved in the media, as they consistently posted to various social media sites. The two then candidates really used the internet to their advantage and used it as a…

anything. A clear example of this is shown when Elie talks about how, “Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other” (Wiesel 100). The Jews acted as if they were animals as they viciously fought over a single piece of bread was tossed into the wagon. Following this was another prime example shown as a son kills his own father for a piece of bread, as his father calls out, “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father… I…