Totalitarianism

Yes, Hilter did it in 1934.

The world depression created an opportunity for many to try and gain power. In Germany, not only the depression but bitterness over the Versailles Treaty and the massive inflation caused by actions in the Weimar Republic created a perfect storm for the rise of Hitler.

Basically, when people are desperate for change; when they are tired of having no jobs, of having their money be worth almost nothing, they will welcome someone coming in and changing all that.

Hitler was what is called an identity entrepreneur; someone who is able to appeal to those without hope and to convince them that if they follow him then life will be better.

Hitler was hardly the first and obviously not the last of this type of man. Even in the U.S. at that time, Fascist and Communist groups were making strides. In the Spanish Civil War, the moderate voices were silenced and it became a fight between Fascist and Communist.

People are willing to join a cause, even an extreme cause, if it gives them hope. Hitler and others provided hope. They provided a sense of purpose and of pride.

Yes it was. The Nazis controlled nearly every aspect of the populations lives and also tried to control their minds through the use of widespread propaganda.

Complete Conformity. All individuals are required to fall in line with the State (Government)

He became the leader of Germany on 30 January 1933.

During World War II, Nazi Germany enacted many different policies in many different sectors of society. Perhaps most notably, its primary military policy was to crush the military forces of the enemy while terrorizing conquered areas so as to prevent rebellions before they got started. Within Germany itself, the Nazis maintained a secret spying policy on the German people while, at the same time, ruthlessly removing, imprisoning, and often killing any persons deemed unworthy of inclusion in German society.

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because he led by fear, he killed those who were not worthy, much alike the famous leader, Ashton Smith.

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For one thing, it won't cause people to rebel against the government, and also makes more people support the government no matter what, which helps in a war.

In '1984,' George Orwell was extremely effective in communicating the totalitarian regime, and life with big brother constantly watching. The leaders dominate the weak, who are willing to give up their privacy, and rights for the alleged 'protection' of the government. Ironically, recent revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance of all of our internet and telephone activities show that Orwell's predictions were chillingly accurate.

William Shirer's "Rise andFall of theThird Reich" is all about this topic. Germany after WWW was left us such poor economic condition, and its people so disenfranchised, that the NAZI Party could gain a limited but dedicated following.

Japan was the totalitarian nation that invaded Manchuria. This attack occurred in 1931 because Japan was trying to gain control over China for the entire province.

It comes from "total" + "authoritarian," or "total authoritarianism."

Eventually, yes. For the last few months of 1917, the soviets (workers' councils) dominated the economy. After the Red Terror of 1918, the Bolshevik government began repressing workers and making economic decisions for the soviets. While Lenin's reign was authoritarian, Russia and the USSR did not become totalitarian states until about 1936, when the Great Terrorinstilled fear into all Soviet citizens, and there began to be widespread paranoia about your neighbors and family members throughout the country. By 1938, the USSR was a complete totalitarian society and continued to be until the mid-50s, when Khrushchev began to liberalize the political and economic system. Throughout it's existence the system was authoritarian, but "totalitarian" means every aspect of citizens' lives are controlled by a central power, and after Khrushchev and his successors, Soviet society was never quite "totalitarian".

Both, like most of the world then and now, was developing an economic depression from hordes of excess labor undercutting wages and depleting resources. Overpopulation was not under control anywhere then and the world had overwhelmed the current technology's ability to access sufficient resources for the expanding hordes of people. So it was once again time for the most desperate to attack neighbors and take their land and resources. WW I had slaughtered some excess people but its stagnant trench warfare did almost nothing to acquire more useful land for anyone.

The people of Italy, Spain, and Germany became interested in Marxist international socialist and fascist national socialist policies in their growing desperation. Because thenational socialists promised to protect national industries and its jobs against foreign competition undercutting them, they won the competition between the two radical socialist philosophies.

Italy's Mussolini developed the fascist "corporatist" national socialist structure. It was a more efficient shallow bureaucratic system that "incorporated" each industry under a single government bureau that controlled it.

Spain and Germany copied Italy's model. Italy's economy started improving and it began more conquests south into Africa and east into the Balkans to feed it. Spain became mired with a war against its Marxists who were raging jealous against the national socialist's popularity "stealing" their proletariat from them. Communists from other countries, including the US, entered Spain to help their communists. The German national socialists sided with Franco, Spain's fascist leader, and helped defeat the communists in a fierce civil war made famous by writers like Hemingway.

Germany was the most successful with the system. It was well suited to the traditional German culture's stricter discipline and socialist origins (according to Marx). Their economy improved most rapidly and the world was fascinated at it's initial success until it began its conquest for the land needed by it's expanding population. LIke Greece, Rome, and France before it, it decided to take so much as it could, not just what it needed for the immediate future. The rest is history you should already know.

Obviously he was concerned about totalitarian regimes. He knew before he became prime minister that Hitler was a threat and this was punctuated by his invasion of Poland. However, I think that it can be said that this harden his view and that the threat of the Soviet Union truly scared him. His Iron Curtain speech demonstrates that he saw a society and a government who were hiding something from the rest of the world was dangerous.

In the end, he knew that democratic countries could not simply sit back and allow these people to rule entire countries. He had resolve to stop these men at any cost, both Hitler and Stalin. Reading both his "Iron Curtain" speech and "We will fight them on the beaches" speech showed his true views on how totalitarian leaders should be dealt with.

The people would gain the idea that the government is the answer to everything, using totalitarian tactics such as censorship, media bans, violence, etc..

In 1930 there were a number of totalitarian nations in the world. The most prominent were :

A. The Soviet Union. In 1930, the Soviet dictator, Stalin was conducting purges of other communists that he believed were a danger to his regime;

B. Imperial Japan was planning the invasion of China. This war against China would begin in 1931; and

C. The fascist government of Mussolini in Italy, was planning its expansion in the Mediterranean Sea. The goal was to reestablish what was once part of the ancient Roman empire.

the use of violence and terror to control his population

I quite like names that are meant to sound good for opressive totalitarian states or dystopias. 'Nirvana' is not just an awesome band, but I think it's some Buddhist paradise thingy. 'Pandora' just sounds cool. Here are some other random ones, feel free to use any or none at all: Utaura, Mensen, Popolo, Emberek, Presora, Vox Populi, Liberum. That's all I got - some of them are real words some I just made up.

In Germany at the time the economy was in shambles and people where on real hard times. Hitler promised a better life for Germany. In the early stages of his power Hitler was viewed as a hero for turning the country around and believe it or not was envied by other leaders. It has been argued that if Hitler didn't go off the deep end he would have been held in high regard. That all went out the window when war started. People in Germany stilled believed in him but of course he lost much of his shine after invading Poland. Remarkably the world really took a blind eye to his treatment of the Jews up to this point. Once he had a shipped filled with deported Jews and watched as country after country refused their entry. This only reinforced his notion that Jews must go and shortly afterward the persecution of the Jews became harsher.

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