Skylar TURNBOUGH - Dictators for Dummies Project Template

How to be a Dictator By: Skylar Turnbough

What it means to be a dictator You have full control over everything your people can and can’t do, you control every single thing they do from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep. You make the laws and the rules for the people to follow and if they break them it is up to you to punish them the way you see fit.

Famous Kim Jong Un Dictator Dictators of North Korea from 2011- present day Hitler Dictator of brainwashes each Germany from new generation with 1933-1945, used fear and their education system children to control his so they always obey people him, he also controls everything they have access to

How to Manipulate laws and people? ● Define Manipulation: To control everything and to make it so some people get what they want. ● How does this help dictators rise to power? They can get control fast by changing laws to please the people or to make sure they keep the people in line so they have no way out

Dictators That Have Used Manipulation To Their Advantage Who: Stalin dictator of Russia Who: Bashar Al Assad dictator of Syria How: He controlled every aspect How: He gassed his people because they of everyone's lives and if they didn’t follow his orders 110% correct. didn’t follow every single law they were killed.

How to Use Propaganda to Your Advantage ● Define propaganda: Biased information, used to convince people to pick a side of something ● How does propaganda help dictators rise to power They can use it to make them seem like the best and greatest person on the face of the earth

Dictators that used Propaganda for their advantage Who:Mussolini Who: Kim Jong Un Dictator of Italy How: DIctator of North Korea He posted images of How: He makes children himself being a great go into a school where guy and he’d kiss there are pictures of him babies and play with in every room children

Censoring Information ● what does it mean to censor information? To hide certain information from the people ● How do dictators use this to keep their power? They only know the things that the dictator wants them to know

Dictators That Have Used Censoring to their Advantage Who: Hitler Dictator Who: Kim Jong Un of Germany Dictator of North How: He burned Korea books that he didn’t How: His people don’t like and he used even have social children to spy on media their parents.

Brainwashing Your People ● What methods do dictators use to brainwash their citizens? Schools ● How do dictators use this brainwashing to keep their power They teach the kids with what they believe in so they have many future generations obeying them

Dictators That Use Brainwashing Who: Hitler, former dictator of Who: Kim Jong Un dictator of Germany North Korea How: He made the kids go to a How: He has pictures and Nazi school and he said they need statues of him everywhere. to spy on their parents and if they say something that goes against Hitler they need to help him

Repressing Opposition Dictators that used this ● What does it mean to ‘repress opposition’? To use military or police to keep people in line Who: Mussolini Who: Vladimir Putin How: He had a secret How: He has secret ● What methods do dictators use to do this? police force that spied on police to spy on his Secret police his people to make sure people to keep they didn’t do anything them in line ● How does this help dictators keep their power? wrong The secret police are like spies that spy on the people and kill them if they do something wrong

Imprisoning people Examples ● How do dictators justify imprisoning & torturing enemies? What methods do they use? They kill anybody that doesn’t agree with them ● How does this help dictators keep their power? Who: Stalin Who: Bashar Al How: Anybody that Assad It scares people into obeying them because they’d be too disagreed with him was How: He gassed scared to act out because they would get murdered shot and then put into a his people because ditch they spoke out against them

Examples Military and Police Use Who: Stalin Who: Bashar Al Assad How: How: ● What were a dictator’s military and police used He takes the people He has military guys for? What were their responsibilities? that disobey and he that will follow people has his military and and then kill them once If someone disobeys them they’d get murdered police force line them they are alone if they up and shoot them disobey ● How does a military & police force help dictators keep their power? They kill the people that disobey

Propaganda Who: Examples Mussolini ● Define propaganda How: He Who: Vladimir posted images Putin Biased information, used to convince people to pick of him all over, How: He has a a side of something and they were song all about all images of how great of a ● How do dictators use propaganda to keep their him being a person he is power? good person They use it to make them seem better than they really are

Social Media Control Example ● What methods do dictators use to control the Who: Kim Jong Un internet / social media? How: He has all social media’s blocked so nobody knows what they are and nobody They block the things they don’t like or they block knows what’s going on outside their country social media all together ● How does this help dictators keep their power? They don’t know anything that’s happening outside of their country

Other things to do/use to your Examples advantage ● Define nationalism Extreme love of one's country ● Define genocide To have a mass kill off one type of person ● Define ethnic conflict Who: Hitler Who: Issues between races and religions How: He blamed the Bashar Al Assad jews for all of Germany's How: He gassed his people ● How do these concepts help dictators keep their power? problems because they didn’t agree They use these to blame certain people for the country’s with him problems to get everyone to turn against them.

Methods to Manipulate Examples ● What methods do dictators use to manipulate laws & policies? Secret Police, Children, Schools, military ● How does this help dictators keep their power? If they do all of these then nobody will want to go against them. Who: Stalin Who: Vladimir Putin How: He killed anyone How: He held a US Marine that didn’t agree with against his will because him he was accused of spying

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