Individuals Who Have Had a Major Impact on the World

Throughout global history we’ve come across many individuals who have had a major impact on the world. Two such leaders are Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, who both affected the world very negatively. In order to understand the ways of these leaders we have to examine their beliefs, achievements, and the effect of their actions on society.

Hitler was anti-communism; he was against equality of the people. Furthermore, Hitler greatly believed in Fascism, that the world needs to be run by the Germans. In his mind he believed the Germans to be superior and therefore saw fit to rid the world of the alien race, anyone who’s inferior to what he saw as perfection. This included the handicapped and disabled, anyone of different color or race, and most importantly, the Jews. Hitler believed that the final solution to make the world a better place was to annihilate the Jews from the world. In result of Hitler’s beliefs, he wrote a book while he was in jail called “Mein Kopf”. He filled this book with all his racist and fascist idea. Since, at this time, Germany had a weak and ineffective government; Hitler had an easy time coming to power as the head of a new political party, the Nazis. Hitler overthrew the Weimer government and took immediate control over education and the media. He changed the history books and made up fake facts. He even changed math book examples! This was done in order to engrave his horrific ideas in their innocent minds. In addition, Hitler banned religion and demanded that all Germans had to worship the “fatherland”. He promised the Germans a “thousand year Reich”, where Germany, the superior race, will rule the world.

The effect of Hitler’s insane beliefs was terribly negative, especially for the Jews. Hitler preformed a tremendous act of genocide, massive killings of a specific race. Consequently, the Nuremberg Laws came into being. These laws took away the rights and citizenship of the Jews. It restricted the Jews from having businesses and even of using public transportation. It forced the poor Jews to wear a yellow star on their clothing at all times. These horrific laws basically turned the Jews into the Nazis servants. Hitler wiped out entire communities, he completely destroyed synagogues! All in all, Hitler’s beliefs had very negative effects on the Jews and in result of this the population of European Jews declined severely. After the surrender of Germany, in which united states attacked Germany from one side and Russia from the other, Germany