1. Adolf Hitler Fidel Castro Aaron Luther Mrs. Herrmann World History Honors Presentations

2. Table of Contents Biographies -Adolf Hitler - Fidel Castro Similarities Differences Who had the greater impact?

3. Born in Braunau, Austria Had trouble in school Part of German Army Was a dictatorWas a great speaker Started the Holocaust Married Eva Braun Took over most of Europe Committed suicide

4. Beginning Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria on April 20, 1889. His parents were Alois and Klara Hitler.

5. Education Hitler showed great potential in primary school but later in secondary school he began to slack an not making it through secondary school.

6. WWI Efforts During WWI Hitler joined the German army as a despatch- runner. He received five medals for his efforts in WWI.

7. After WWI After WWI He began to give many speeches all over Germany. He was later injured in a battle and stayed in Germany where he soon became part of the Socialist party.

8. Workers Party He later changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party. Later nicknamed the Nazi Party.

9. Gaining Power Hitler gained power as well as the Nazi Party and attempted at taking over the government but failed he was arrested he received a very small sentencing.

10. Mein Kampf While he was was in jail he wrote a book called Mein Kampf, meaning “My struggles”.

11. Chancellor When he is released from jail he comes back even stronger helping the Nazi party become second out of parties in Germany. Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany.

12. Dictator On the next election where he sneaked in a bill that would give him the power to be the dictator. And in deed he became the Dictator of Germany

13. Concentration Camps He started taking over land and forcing power to work and if they didn’t work he sent them to concentration camps and sent all Jewish people there.

14. Power Hungry He took over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. He keep taking over land such as the rest of Czechoslovakia, Poland, then France, after that he told his men to take over Great Britain.

15. WWII This was the beginning of WWII which had Russia slowly moving in on Germany as they got closer to Russia. Then the United States helped out Great Britain during war.

16. Holocaust Out of every country that Germany was taking over they were sending all of Jews to concentration camps which was called the Holocaust.

17. Suicide Hitler later married Eva Braun and two days later Hitler killed himself and his wife killed her self by taking cyanide tablets but then he shot himself in the head. As the Soviets moved in on Germany.

18. Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany. Responsible for the Holocaust. Started WWII. Known as one of the most power hungry men in the world.

19. Born in Eastern Cuba Changed his last name from Ruz Was accused of being a communist Tried to over throw the dictator of the Dominican Republic Gave his power to his brother Took all the people out of prison in Cuba and fled them to the U.S. Took over Cuba at age 32 Was put in prison for 15 years and escaped after 2 Scared the United States by having many weapons

20. Beginning Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 in Cuba by Birán. Full name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. His parents are Angel and Lina Ruz.

21. Education He was a smart student but all in all Fidel would rather play sports than go to school. He was a very go pitcher while playing baseball for his high school team. His school name was El Colegio de Belen

22. College He graduated and later attended the University of Havana. He was going to try to become a lawyer.

23. Failure He left to the Dominican Republic to try to take over as the dictator but failed and moved back to Cuba.

24. Marriage He went on and married Mirta Diaz Balart they had one child named Fidelito. He tried to become the Dictator of Cuba but failed and was thrown in jail. He divorced his wife that same year.

25. Mexico He travel to Mexico after release from jail. When he went to Mexico he meant a guy by the name of Ernesto “Che” Guevare who helped Castro come up with new strategy on how he should take over the Cuban Government.

26. Prime Minister When he returned the spot of Prime Minister of Cuba was open he ran and became the Prime Minister. He started to have relations with the USSR of Russia.

27. Dictator During these relations he began to use Communistic tactics. As in time he became the Dictator of Cuba.

28. Cuban Missile Crisis With relations with Russia they had the United States on there toes during the Cold War with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

29. Hurricane The United States was never the best of friends with Cuba but in 2001 the Hurricane came through and wiped out most of Cuba and the U.S. came together to help out Cuba.

30. Brother Fidel is still alive but gave up being Dictator to his brother Raul Castro in 2008. He was a very successful leader and helped out the Cuban Government and still helps them today.

31. Comparisons Similarities Differences

32. Similarities They were both Dictators and love to be in control. They don’t have a ton in things in common but most of there general characteristic are the same. Such as power hungry, tried to over throw governments, and were very risk taking people.

33. Differences Hitler was a way more different type of man he was more into fighting and battles than the actual politics unlike Castro. Hitler has taken over a lot more land and rule large amounts of people. Hitler was also very brutal by showing his hatred of Jews and by having the Holocaust. Castro was way more into the political side of things he liked school and loved sport and had more of a positive affect on the outcome of his dictatorship.

34. Who has had the Greater Impact? I think that Hitler has had a way bigger impact on the world today that Fidel Castro has. Fidel influences a small amount of people and Hitler even though all of his are not positive affects he have caused a ton of destruction in this world.

35. Work Cited Fidel Castro. (2009). Biography.com. Retrieved 10:31, Nov 30 2009 from http://www.biography.com/articles/Fidel-Castro- 9241487http://www.biography.com/articles/Fidel-Castro- 9241487 Bruner, J. (1996). Adolf Hitler. In Spartacus Educational. Retrieved November 4, 2009, from Bruner, J. (1998). Fidel Castro. In Spartacus Educational. Retrieved November 28, 2009, from Grobman, G. M. (1990). Adolf Hitler. In Adolf Hitler. Retrieved November 29, 2009, from Kershaw, I. (1998). Hitler, 1889-1936 Hubris. New York: Norton Paperback.