Assess the importance of economic distress and ideological appeal in the rise to power of one left-wing and one

right-wing single-party ruler. As seen before, the rise of a single ruler depends several things such as the society being hopeless, beliefs that the solution to fix the problem is a radical one; the government is inefficient, etc. However the two main reasons are a crisis and their ideology. Hitler and Castro, who are both single party rulers, had an economic distress happening in their country and an appealing ideology, which were very important to their rise to power. In Europe, the Great Depression strengthened extremist forces and lowered the prestige of liberal democracy. Economic distress directly contributed to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The Nazis' public-works projects and their rapid expansion of munitions production ended the Depression there by 1936. Hitler adopted policies that were more interventionist, developing a massive workcreation scheme that had largely eradicated unemployment. Also rearmament, paid for by government borrowing, started in earnest. By 1939 the Germans GNP was 51 per cent higher than in 1929. The Nazi movement was an ideological movement founded in 1919 and led by Adolf Hitler. Based on ideas of German racial superiority, it promoted territorial expansion, blamed the Jews for the ills of Germany and called for their removal from the German society. It gave rise to the Nazi Party, which came to power in 1933 and implemented its ideologies. The party's platform of twenty five objectives, published in 1920, was formulated by Hitler and Anton Drexler and included militaristic, nationalistic, social, economic, and anti-Semitic clauses. Cuba had an economic distress in the 1950s. They had a vibrant but extremely unequal economy, with large capital outflows to foreign investors. Cuba had a one-crop economy whose domestic market became narrower since the US took part of the economy. Its population was characterized by chronic unemployment and deep poverty. The banks and the country's entire financial system, all electric power production, and most industry were dominated by US capital. Castros turned to capitalism to save the Cubans from economic crisis. His ideology is truly a unique one, and in every aspect of the society, economy, and international position his ideology has had a huge impact. He undertook many social reforms that included attempts to improve education, housing health, medical facilities and communications. All children were now receiving some education, sanitation, hygiene and health care were much improved, unemployment and corruption reduced, and there was a greater sense of equality and stability than ever before. Concluding economic distress and ideological appeal in the rise to power of one left-wing and one right-wing single-party ruler is very important to make them succeed. The reasons for this is because society is desperate and are willing to take radical measures in order to see things change for the better.