Dictator

Question: Was Napoleon a revolutionary or a military dictator? To understand the question one must understand the meaning of a revolutionary and a military dictator. A revolutionary is someone who brings about change to set of laws in a country or state. Where as a military dictator is someone who rules through fear and force. Napoleon’s actions rendered many views of him, leading people to believe whether he was a revolutionary or a military dictator. However, to decide the answer, it is…

Painted around 1920 by German expressionist Martin Zeller, The Orator captures the fleeting moment in which the titular speaker basks in the climax of his great and powerful message. While he stands just to the left of center, his body takes up the entire length of the picture and covers the span of the entire left side. With his arms and legs spread wide on a raised orange-brown platform, he throws back his head toward to sky to summon a great miracle, message, or magic. Or perhaps he himself…

Benito Mussolini, nicknamed Il Duce was best known as the fascist dictator of Italy after the First World War. Being the prime minister, Mussolini expected to bring his country into excellence and, majeure. However, as history unfolded, it became clear that he had quite a different perception and perspective on how to achieve national greatness , and in his eyes it began with total obedience and devotion to the nation’s leader-himself. Mussolini had many ideologies, and wasn’t afraid to use…

How did Adolf Hitler become dictator? How did he become so powerful? What was his attentions of doing in the future? He wanted the perfect world that he always thought of. Hitler wanted to takeover the world by becoming powerful, doing what he thought was best, and making it his own. Adolf Hitler before World War II served in the Bavarian Germany army. At a very quick approch he proved to be a courageous soldier. December 1914, he was awarded the Iron Cross second class. August 1918 he was…

Opposing Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco In July of 1936 the Spanish Civil War started and military officers who were led by Francisco Franco began revolting against the democratically elected Second Republic. At this time Picasso, who was a Republican supporter, completed a series of anti-Franco etchings. The artist expressed his feelings by saying that the military caste was “plunging Spain into an ocean of misery and death”. One of his most notable paintings is “Guernica” painted for the…

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina reigned over the Dominican Republic in a dictatorship extending over thirty years. He is known to most who know him as having been the “most ruthless dictator in Latin America.” However, there is another side to the story. Trujillo was the third son of a humble sheep herder and worked as a sugar plantation guard in his adolescent years. He enlisted in the United States Marines Corp during the U.S.’s occupation in the Dominican Republic. He built himself up to…

Benjamin Toney Benjamin Toney Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was a military leader and a fascist dictator of Germany. He is the reason World War 2 was fought. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. He despised Austrian rule and became a strong nationalist. Hitler set the holocaust into motion considering the Jewish race inferior. He was chancellor of Germany from 1934-1945 acting as a dictator for a large majority of that time. Hitler had joined the Nazi party in Germany. By the year…

how a dictatorship can be damaging to a country and its citizens. When a country is run by a dictatorship it’s people's voices are ignored as well as their rights and freedoms to further the ideologies of a single individual who runs said country. Dictators are known to use drastic measures to obtain and stay in power including the use of force, indoctrination, control of external and internal media, propaganda and the manipulation of their democracies. These tactics are often enforced with the…

A powerful dictator named Joseph Stalin established a regime that focused to modernize the Soviet Union and destroy the Nazi hierarchy. Shortly after the death of Vladmir Lenin in December of 1879, Stalin gained control of the Communist Party, by assuming the role of General Secretary. Due to his decision to control the agriculture, famine swept across the land killing millions in its path. The few exceptions were innocents captured and taken to camps. Leader of the Red Army, Stalin led his men…

Although Julius Caesar may have been a power hungry dictator, some of the things he did in his days were beneficial to the world. For example, Caesar abolished the roman republic, he created the calendar we know today, and he never lost a war. “Veni, vidi, vici.” A famous quote by Julius Caesar it means “I came, I saw, I conquered” people may miss take this quote to be about him being a power hungry dictator, however the way I view it is he came to a place with a corrupted government, and when…