After receiving the prophecies Macbeth had to discard of King Duncan so that he could obtain the throne. Before killing King Duncan, Macbeth said "To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition." (Act I Scene 7 Line 26-27). This demonstrates how ambitious Macbeth is to achieve that power of being king. Whereas in Animal Farm, Napoleon had to banish his main competitor for the role of leading, Snowball.
A strong example of the importance of “Red Terror” was perhaps the execution of the Tsar and his family in public, showing the Cheka‘s uses. This is highlighted when Marples states “the Bolsheviks had proclaimed the abolition of the death penalty, the Cheka obeyed no such rules” supporting Elknar’s point of the “rapid expansion of the Cheka’s powers”, as this allowed the Bolshevik party to fully implement “Red Terror” to squash the threat to their power, even though it was against the party’s original ideals. From this it is possible to state, that the Bolshevik party saw the Cheka as very important to their success in the civil war, as they saw the use of
How did Hitler invade the soviet Union, why did he invade the Soviet Union, and how does the novel “Soldier X” by Don Wulffson, describe war to what war was really like. Hitler broke his pact with the Soviet Union for several reasons. One of the main reasons he broke his pact is the fact that Adolf Hitler was a greedy human being and wanted all of Europe and eventually the entire world. Once his attack on Britain failed due to a thick, annoying fog, he decided that he would break his secret pact with the Soviet Union and invade. He becomes too confident and to greedy, “Clearly, no longer was it Lebensraum
Joseph Stalin truly strengthened this nation to become a widely known superpower, although he carried out mass genocide and created a murderous dictatorship. Historians have viewed him in many different ways, including a psychotic power-driven killer, a military and communist genius, and also the man who transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial colossus. Joseph Stalin should have never taken the role of the USSR’s leader. Instead, Trotsky should have been the one to take Lenin’s place, which would have saved the lives of millions. Joseph Stalin put forth many positive attributes to the USSR, however; the only reason this was possible was through his brutal intimidation tactics used on the nation’s
Hunger for complete control and raw power makes for inattentive leaders who make unwise decisions due to the ignorance of the important problems. Adolf Hitler, for example, made the wrong choices when it came to WWII and his distraction led to the downfall of his empire and the victory of the war by the Americans. He became obsessed with creating a perfect society, and in doing so he created the biggest genocide the world has ever seen- The Holocaust. Hitler was obsessed with making sure that everyone was a follower of his rule, and anyone that went against what he said was executed. The same is true in the novella Animal Farm, when Napoleon ruthlessly slaughters many animals because he is under the impression that they are in cohorts with is enemy, Snowball, and are sabotaging his rule by committing crimes that Snowball has told them to
Interpretation a written by Chris Harman in 1988 argues that Joseph Stalin was eager to control the Eastern European states, which had just been liberated by the red army. Harman believes that Stalin was looking for mass local support within, which he could gain total control over social life by implementing communist ideology which would give him extending and internal power and influence in managing each individual state. Intimidation and terror raged across Europe between 1944-1945, the Russians murderd, raped and pillaged their way through to Berlin approved by Stalin “if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood, death and fire has fun with a women who takes some trifle” after the initial liberation of these small states such as was not enough to control the people Stalin needed the people to buy into the philosophy of. Chris Harman doesn't illustrate in the interpretation why the Russian’s are doing this, one might propose that Stalin is doing this to promote worldwide communist or maybe to extend his power and empire further beyond the Balkans but there is no evidence of what stains motive is .Chris Harman does however illustrate on how Stalin did it “ The communist leaders set out to build up mass bureaucratically organised parties on the lines of the Stalinist party in Russia’’ as well as the figures for the growth of the communist parties in Poland “30,000 to 300,000 grew from January to April in 1945” and in Czecslovakia “27,000 to 1,569,164” to back up his point about Stalin setting up similar parties as his own back in Russia this is not clear evidence that Stalin wanted to promote communism or just extend power. Chris Harman is a Marxist made clear by the name of his book “Class struggles in Europe” so his opinion is very one sided.
Also, the totalitarian state supports extreme nationalism. Stalin used propaganda, censorship, and terror to force his will on the Soviet people. Government newspapers glorified work and Stalin himself. Secret police spied on citizens, and anyone who refused to praise Stalin and the state faced severe punishment, even death. Thus we can see that by the end of the 1920s, Stalin had definitely created a totalitarian state, but to what extent?
Then the Zimmermann telegram caused America to join the war.The Germans suggested a German-Mexican alliance meaning Mexico will march to the U.S and recover their lost territories such as Arizona,New Mexico and Texas.This telegram was intercepted by the British and,as a result,the Americans.The U.S. was furious and joined the war for world peace and establishment of democracy to end the war.The telegram was probably Germany's worst mistake throughout WW1. The Allies’ leaders like Lloyd George and Wilson were clever people who were courageous and brilliant leaders. The German leaders came up with plans like the Zimmermann Telegram and Schlieffen Plan,which were no match for the first and made horrible mistakes which led Germany to a loss.Also as the attritional warfare continued,the leaders did not come up with anything new which could end the war.Although they made use of great defensive weapons like machine guns and poisonous gases,theycould not build an offensive weapon until the development of tanks. Looking at all these mistakes which Germany made,it is not really that surprising that Germany eventually lost the War.With the nation being constantly wore down on one hand and the Allies maintaining a strong and offensive behavior throughout the war -especially after the U.S.A. joined the war at their side-,this outcome of the war was the most expected
Russian Revolution -Terms Czar Nicholas II- last Russian czar; clumsy and ineffective leader; bad at decision making; abdicated the throne; July 1918 executed by the Bolsheviks along with his family; tried to hold back cultural changes; Economic developments Encouraged growth of industries by investing national funds Ordered tariffs to protect Russian products from foreign trade Encouraged foreign investment Bloody Sunday-January 22, 1905 massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia; unarmed demonstrators trying to get better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature; provoked a wave of strikes across the country; Imperial Guard open fired when they went to Nicolas’s palace; By October 1905, Czar promised parliament and more freedom Abdicate- to resign as a ruler VI Lenin- founder of Bolshevik party organizer of October Revolution armed workers, soldiers, and sailors stormed Winter Palace (headquarters of provisional government) bloodless Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary delegates withdrew from Congress Made Russia into a Communist
The oft repeated slogan “ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer”, or one nation, one empire, one leader was a necessary and important reminder of how Germany could avoid ever making the same mistakes again. These mistakes, in Hitler’s eyes cost Germany the war and put it and its people in the deplorable economic state that it now found itself in. Mein Kamph frequently advocates the slogan’s meaning and its promise of a new, united, and powerful nation that Hitler claimed was its destiny! 2) I think that Mein Kamph appealed to the people because Hitler said and promised to the people exactly what they wanted to hear, although I feel that Germany was so vulnerable in its current state that the people were willing to try anything. The Weimar Republic didn’t seem to have any idea on how to solve the problems of the Depression that Germany now was in the midst of, thanks to their humiliating defeat in the Great War.