Totalitarianism Introduction

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Dictators and Totalitarian states in the time of the world wars

This period

• How dictators took power in the period between the two world wars
• How totalitarian regimes work
• Propaganda + totalitarianism

Key idea

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism

A form of government that wants total control over the lives of its citizens. 

Characteristics: strong central rule that tries control all aspects of individual life through force and repression. There is no individual freedom

Totalitarianism

The state wants to control how you act and what you think

A totalitarian state today - where is this?

Was the church in the middle ages totalitarian?

Heretics (think differently)

Jewish people (enemies of the religion)

The Church in the Middle Ages was Totalitarian

Agree

Disagree

False

A form of government that wants total control over the lives of its citizens. 

Characteristics: strong central rule that tries control all aspects of individual life through force and repression. There is no individual freedom

False

The church did not have the technology (communication, transport, weapons etc) to control ALL aspects of people's lives

What technology can you see?

What technology can you see?

Industrial Revolution

Mass Media = More power to control and influence

• Newspapers (+ better education), Telegraphs, Radio

Transport 

• Trains, steam powered ships = state can reach everyone

Weapons

• The state can kill everyone

God is dead?

• Improvements in technology (medicine, communications, weapons) = humans become godlike
• More educated populations = more critical people
• Ideas of the French Revolution
• Many still religious but many start to question religious institutions

Game time

Smash or Pass

Smash or Pass

Smash

Pass

Smash or Pass

Smash

Pass

Smash or Pass

Smash

Pass

Smash or Pass

Smash

Pass

Stalin 

20 - 30 million deaths

Mao Zedong

50 - 70 million deaths

Mussolini

Facist, inspired Hitler

Hitler

Massive sukkel

New religions need new prophets

Key idea

All the dictators we will talk about are very charismatic

People will follow them + their ideas like people used to follow religions

Communism

Fascism

Communism

National Socialism

Key ideas

Communism

Fascism / National Socialism

This period

Before the Christmas holiday

Totalitarianism in the Soviet Union

The causes and events of the Russian revolution

The rise to power of Stalin

Communism and totalitarianism

The Rise of Fascism

Mussolini and Fascism in Italy

Totalitarianism in Germany

The consequences of WW1 

The Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power

This period

After the Christmas holiday

Life in the Soviet Union

Life in Nazi Germany

Assessment

1. Propaganda Project

Design a propaganda poster and write a speech. Either for Nazi Germany

Assessment

1. Propaganda Project

Design a propaganda poster and write a speech. Or for Soviet Russia

Assessment

1. Test 

• The Russian Revolution and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union
• The consequences of WW1
• Hitler's rise to power
• Totalitarianism in Nazi Germany