Dictatorship
(Done by Jade and Joan)
Definition:
- a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator
- absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control.
Dictatorship was put in place as early as the BC stages. There wasn't a specific time when it initiated and ended. However, currently dictatorship isn't practiced as heavily as it was in the less modern ages. Dictatorship is usually never a appropriate approach when it comes to a branch of ruling. When there's people such as Hitler who rule with an iron fist, it won't successfully last for long. People eventually would gather the strength to rebel against the dictator--which could've possibly happened if Hitler didn't commit suicide. Although dictatorship is still in practice, it has reduced an increasing amount
Examples of a dictator throughout history:
Adolf Hitler, Der Fuher: 1889-1945
- Austrian German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party commonly known as the Nazi Party.
- Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945
- After 1934,head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler, ruling the country as an absolute dictator of Germany.
- Really wanted to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
- Pursued foreign policy a said a goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Aryan people
- Included the rearmament of Germany (culminated in 1939 when Wehrmacht invaded Poland) In response, the United Kingdom and France declared war against Germany, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
- Pursued foreign policy a said a goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Aryan people
- Within three years, Germany and the Axis powers occupied most of Europe, most of Northern Africa, East/Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Ocean.
- 1945- Allied armies invaded German-held Europe from all sides.
- Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war
- Some targets- ethnic Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents.
- Some targets- ethnic Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents.
- Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war
- The last days of the war during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun and, to avoid capture by Soviet forces less than two days later, the two committed suicide on 30 April 1945.
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