Which two forms of government found in the first half of the twentieth century are most alike?

Authoritarianism and totalitarianism

Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes are not equivalent, even though they do share many commonalities. Authoritarian regimes are those in which the power lies in the hands of a single actor. This could be a dictator, or a group of people, such as a junta. Their main purpose is controlling power. Totalitarian regimes, on the other hand, go much further, and they want to control all aspects of life, including the economy, art, science, private life and morality of citizens.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

to demand women’s suffrage