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Stalin

2934024 — 2025-04-04 14:57:01 UTC

Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879. Stalin grew up in a small town in Gori, Georgia. He became an underground political agitator and took part in labor demonstrations and strikes. He ruled the Soviet Union starting in the late 1920s.

Communism

2934024 — 2025-04-04 15:01:53 UTC

Communism is a policy-making and a profitable economic system that seeks to create a classless society. Communism developed from a German philosopher named Karl Marx. It posits that industrial society's divided into two classes of people the workers and capitals. Communist parties were forming in every state across Europe.

Nazism

2934024 — 2025-04-04 15:05:58 UTC

It was a totalitarian movement led by Hitler who was head of the Nazi party in Germany. Nazism shared a lot of elements with Italian fascism, but the Nazism were more extreme in both ideas and practice. This movement was anti-intellectual and nontheoretical.

Spanish Civil War

2934024 — 2025-04-04 15:11:11 UTC

The Spanish Civil War was a war fought between the Republicans and the Nationalists, it lasted from 1936 to 1939. It began after the partial collapse of the coup detat in 1936 against the Popular Front Government by a group of generals. The war was viewed as a class struggle, religous struggle, dictatorship and republican democracy struggle and a struggle between fascism and communism.

Treaty of versailles

2934024 — 2025-04-07 15:07:42 UTC

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace document signed by the Germans and allied forces at the end of WW1. The treaty took force on January 10, 1920. It held Germany responsible for starting the war. It imposed harsh penalties on Germans. Including a loss of teritory, massive reparatons payments and de-escalating. Woodrow Wilson the president in the early 1918 outlined his famous fourteen points addressing the humiliaton of Germany while he was failing to resolve the issues that led to the war in the first place.

Totalitarianism

2934024 — 2025-04-07 15:13:06 UTC

Totalitarianism was a form of government that permits no individual freedom and seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state. By the beginning of WWll it had become synonymous with absolute and oppressive single-party government. Totalitarianism is characterized by the strong central rules that attempt to control and direct all aspects of individuals lives through coercion and repression. Union during the stalin era was the first example of popular totalitarianism.

The Great Depression

2934024 — 2025-04-07 15:19:43 UTC

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, it lasted from 1929 to 1939. It made people loose their homes and forced people to survive in shanty towns that then became known as "Hoovervilles". The economy sank in The Great Depression and unemployment peaked and 25.6 percent of American workers found themselves unemployed, the coronavirus also forced businesses and factories to close. Gary Richardson did extensive research and said that The Great Depression was one of the biggest downfalls for businesses and the community.

League of Nations

2934024 — 2025-04-07 15:24:45 UTC

The League of Nations is an organization for international cooperation that was established on January 10, 1920. The basic idea of the movement was that aggressive wars was a crime not only against the immediate victim but against the whole community. All the states joined together to prevent aggressive war and it is their right and duty to do so. The League of Nations was formally disbanded on April 19, 1946 and its powers and functions were transferred to the nascent United Nation.