In 1924, a man by the name of Joseph Stalin was the ultimate communist/ socialist leader from 1929 to 1953. He was mostly known for being the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the USSR. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union in Russia was dramatically changed from a peasant society to an industrial and military power. Stalin himself wanted to show that he would be able to carry on the goals and ideas of Lenin from the Revolution. Stalin used terror and fear as a tactic, which was really just a ridicule of the original ways that communism promised. The communists destroyed the thought of the noble people being at the top and the peasants at the bottom, but there was a catch. Instead of encouraging to create a society of equal …show more content…
His first attempt of putting together a small coup failed and he was put into prison. But people were soon starting to realize that Hitler was impossible to ignore. As World War I was finally over with, Germany was still still on the edge of of chaos. While Germany was under the threat of a socialist revolution, the German emperor resigned. The moderate leaders signed an armistice, and later on under complaint, the Versailles Treaty. There were still many political problems from the start. Like France, Germany had many small political parties. Many officers and bourgeoisie said the government was way to weak and liberal, and that they wanted a strong, stable leader. Germans from all classes accused the Weimar Republic for the hated Versailles Treaty. Many Germans too blamed the Jews for economic and political problems. When the Great Depression hit, it brought back all of the horrible memories of 1923. The Germans went along with Adolf Hitler because he promised that he would solve all of the crises and to restore Germany back to the way it was before. Hitler came up with with anti-semitism, or anti-Jew groups, which would play a major part in his rule of power. He wrote a book called “Mein Kampf”, or “My Struggle”. This book became the main book of the Nazi ideas and goals. Hitler came into power after he was released from jail and he promised to make new jobs and disregard the Versailles Treaty by rearming Germany. In his act of terror, he wanted to just completely exterminate the Jews that lived in Germany. This plan was called “The Final Solution”. Hitler created the Nuremberg Laws and Lebensraum, which basically stripped the Jews of their freedom. He used severe violence like the Ghettos, concentration camps, and the extermination camps. The Nazi mobs completely terrorized the Jews in Germany, Austria, Auschwitz, Chelmo, Dachau, Treblinka and some parts of Czechoslovakia. When the Allied forces finally invaded Germany in 1945, Hitler knew he