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Abraham Lincoln  (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American civil war, the country's greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S economy. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin and was raised on the Frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his law practice but became vexed by the opening of additional lands to slavery. as a result of the Kansas Nebraska act. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in the new Republican party, and he reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln ran for

Adolf Hitler  ( 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Fuhrer und Reichskanzler  in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World war II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genoocide of about 6 million jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Austria– then part of Austria-Hungary.– and was raised near Linz. He moved to Germany in 1913 and was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War 1. In 1919, he joined the German worker's part (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and was appointed leader of the Nazi Party in 1921. In 1923, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Muni