Totalitarianism

List in order, the 5 elements or characteristics of how dictators and totalitarian governments rise to power.

On a scale of 1 to 3, rate your how well you believe you have mastered the objectives so far in the totalitarianism unit.

• I have not mastered any of the objectives

• I have mastered some of the objectives

• I have mastered all of the objectives

Who am I?

Who am I?

Who am I?

This autocrat built heavy industry and set up collective farms.

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Hitler

• Mussolini

I think I understand a totalitarian state and can write about it for 2 minutes.

• YES - I could write about a totalitarian state

• No - I say to myself 'huh'? when talking about a totalitarian state

One Party Rule

• The use of violence or the threat of violence to produce fear so that people will obey the state.

• Only one political party is allowed to exist. It has complete power.

• To teach people to accept a system of beliefs (thoughts) without questioning.

• Using newspapers, magazines, radio, speeches, and movies to give people a one sided message.

Propaganda

• The removal of anything objectionable to or critical of the ruling party.

• To teach people to accept a system of beliefs (thoughts) without questioning.

• Using newspapers, magazines, radio, speeches, and movies to give people a one sided message.

• The use of violence or the threat of violence to produce fear so that people will obey the state.

Censorship

• The use of violence or the threat of violence to produce fear so that people will obey the state.

• A quality about a leader that makes people eager to follow him or her.

• Only one political party is allowed to exist. It has complete power.

• The removal of anything objectionable to or critical of the ruling party.