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Though it is debatable if a planet as complex and diverse as ours could ever be successfully "dominated" by a single central authority in this way, the concept of global domination has long been a popular theme in both history and fiction.

1 Throughout history

Before modern times, global domination was limited by rudimentary transportation technologies and knowledge of geography. The Roman Empire had goals of global domination, and indeed the empire was able to conquer most of the "known world" (i.e., Europe) throughout its long history. Others who succeeded in conquering large portions of the world include Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. Throughout history there have been many secret shadow societies and brotherhoods dedicated--at least in literature and apocryphy--to taking over the world or are supposed to have already done so: the Illuminati, The Masons, the Templars, etc.

In World War II, the Nazi regime of Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler ( April 20, 1889 April 30, 1945) was the Fuhrer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. In that capacity he was Chancellor of Germany, head of government, and head of state, ruling as a in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east made an attempt at global domination. Hitler had ambitious plans for directly controlling all of Europe, and then hopefully obtaining a position of power that would make the rest of the countries of the world fall into allegiance before the new Nazi superpowerA superpower is a state with the ability to influence events or project power on a wide scale. In modern terms, this may imply an entity with a strong economy, a large population, and strong armed forces, including air power and satellite capabilities, an.

Since the Great October Socialist Revolution, the BolshevikA Bolshevik ("", derived from Russian word loosely translated as "majority") was a member of a faction of Bolsheviks of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) led by Vladimir Lenin. The other faction was known as the Mensheviks, derived from "ms envisioned their regime as the first step to CommunismThis article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. For issues regarding the organization of the communist movement, see the Communist party article. For issues regarding one-par dominating the world. The CominternMoscow and Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) in May 1919. The slogan at the top says "proletarians of all countries, unite!" The Comintern (from Com munist Intern ational), also known as the Third International was an international Communist organization f was established in 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus in order to encourage Communist parties across the world and promote international proletarian revolution. Their partial success has became known as the Socialist bloc . During the Cold War, anti-Communists accused the regime of the Soviet Union of striving for world domination. The feeling was returned by hard-line Communists, who claimed that it was the United States that had a goal of dominating the world. The radical right-wing John Birch Society, the best-known anti-Communist organization in the world, is ironically seen by many as having world domination as an objective itself.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, critics of American foreign policy have argued that the United States seeks — or indeed actually has — global hegemony. Ironically, some calls to unite anti-globalization movements around the globe may be also seen as utopian attempts to take over the world from corporate powers.