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**How were the totalitarian leaders different from democratic ones?**

(this was during WW2 by the way)

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power hunger, force of ideas, military control, Imperialism.

Step-by-step explanation:

Most totalitarian rulers (Stalin, Hitler, mousolini, Tojo) were very tyranical and nationalistic. for instance hitler and Mousolini had a vison of growing major empires each with their own ethnic people at its center. Hitler of course saw the perfect civilization as an ethno-nationalist state and really so did mousolini (both quite racist obviously). stalin was a little diffrent but not much he wanted to see a communist empire, not as much based on ethnicity as our aforementione leaders however to do that he killed alot of his own population and all 3 commited various war crimes against civilians and military personnel. also all 3 had control in some fasion over the military and how it opperated and took power from generals. pretty much the Totalitarian leaders wanted more influance and power at the end of the war.

democratic leaders (churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaulle) where more merciful and certinly less imperial (USA was still isolationist). they wanted things to go back to the way they were before the war with only minor changes. they were not as power hungry since they could lose power in a few years, they did set up sphears of influince like the united states in the south pacific and Britan with colonies but they saw that as a way to prevent future wars in those regions.

(I hope this helped I didnt have a ABCD to go off of but this is just the standard answer)

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