LUKE RIDENER - Dictators for Dummies Project Template

Dictators for Dummies Luke Ridener

So you wanna be a dictator? ● A dictator is someone who has absolute power over a ● Kim Jong Un - Stayed in power by country and no checks and balances to stop abuse of controlling the people with fear and power. “ People accused of power. relatively minor offenses undergo ● Adolf HItler - “Hitler was a powerful and \"reeducation\"; those accused of more serious transgressions are spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide either immediately executed or following of Germans desperate for change. He interred in miserable political prison promised the disenchanted a better life and a camps. Even more daunting, new and glorious Germany.” according to the \"three generations\" policy, the regime punishes not only the individual responsible for the transgressions but his or her whole family.

Tips and Tricks to Getting your Power ● Dictators use propaganda to rise to ● Bashar al-Assad - used propaganda to power by putting out false media to gain power by killing and imprisoning make themselves or their ideals seem any journalists. So he can put out better. whatever he wants and there's no one to speak against him. ● Benito Mussolini - Mussolini used propaganda to gain power by having newspapers and films to remind people how powerful he was and to boost the spirit of the Italian people.

Tips and Tricks to Getting your Power ● Dictators use censoring information to ● Xi Jinping - Xi Jinping made it so that make themselves seem better than terms like immigration and re election they are and that their doing good and “I don't agree” is all censored out when they really aren't so that people of the media to brainwash the people don’t revolt. into never going against him or hoping for someone else to rule. ● Adolf Hitler - Adolf Hitler made it illegal to speak out against his way of thinking. He also made sure that anything that he did wrong was not seen by any of his country man so that he seemed like a perfect leader

How to Keep your Power - Step 1 ● Dictators make up lies they send ● King Salmon, and his son, the Crown through the media and even put in Prince Muhammad bin Salman - King history books to make themselves Salmon told lies to the media and seem so great and to make their censored out any bad said about him enemies seem evil. from being heard from his people. ● Joseph Stalin - Joseph Stalin changed the history books to make himself look better in the eyes of the next generation of Russia.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 2 ● Dictators repress opposition by using ● Kim Jong Un - He will kill anyone who propaganda to make their people hate speaks out against his ultimate power their enemies and support their and there is no way for anyone to hear dictators even more who are trying to anything bad about him or to even get rid of the “enemy” whisper something that isn't good about him without being imprisoned ● Adolf Hitler - He took the Jews and and killed. made a mass genocide of their people so that he could get rid of the opposition.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 3 ● They say that they are right in what ● Bashar al - Assad -Bashar al- Assad they are doing because they are doing would falsify death certificates and get it for the good of the country. They rid of the bodies of any enemies of his capture enemies and kill them after but they were found with eyes gouged they’ve tortured them for information. out, men were found with mutilated genitals, burns on their bodies, and ● Benito Mussolini - would capture his signs of strangulation. Bashar would just say that they had died some other enemies and beat them severely, rape way and hide the bodies away and was never questioned for it. them, pull their teeth, drag them by horseback, and pour castor oil down their throats and tried to keep it out of the history books.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 4 ● hey were used to make sure that even ● Kim Jong-Un would have anyone who if the people turned on them that they spoke out against him either arrested kept power. They were used to scare by the police or killed and wouldn’t people into following the dictator and think twice about it. The military is too keep anyone from speaking down completely loyal to him and there is on him. really no way for anyone to revolt against him. ● Adolf HItler used the SS which were a group of soldiers who he trusted more than anyone and was completely loyal to him and would carry out any command he ordered weather it was legal or not and people thought he could never be touched because of them

How to keep your power part - 6 ● Information that is used to mislead the public and to make them agree with their dictators point of view.Dictators glamorized themselves in the media and made it so that everything they did was seen as for the good of the country. ● Joseph Stalin - Made up lies that he fed to the media to make himself look better. ● Bashar al - Assad - Lies to all of his people telling them terrible things about what the enemy is supposedly doing while making him look like a saint.

How to keep your power step 7 ● They censor what can be said and what is shown in their country to hide what is really happening. ● Vladimir Putin - He censors the media and only shows the good things that he does not all of the people starving and homeless. ●

How to keep your power step 8 ● Dictators can use their peoples pride ● Kim Jong Un - uses the people hatred in their ethnic group and use it to against the South Koreans and makes make it seem like they are going to the people think their misfortunes are fight for them and make them strong. because of them and that the supreme leader is doing everything right for ● Adolf Hitler - hated the jews and so did them. the German people so he used them to brainwash the German people into hating the Jews and blaming them for their misfortunes.

How to keep your power - Step 9 ● They have the people in power be ● Xi Jinping - He completely does what completely loyal to them and do he wants weather it goes against their whatever they want.They can make laws or not because he is the head of the country be however they want to power and can control the media and if they want to ban you from speaking show only what he wants to. bad about them ● Benito Mussolini - He turned the Italian government into a fascist government. So that he could have full control over the country.

Works cited Include: ● Assad's Hospitals of Horror.” The Hive, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2015, www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/assad-war-crimes-syria-torture-caesar-hospital. ● “Keeping Kim: How North Korea's Regime Stays in Power.” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, www.belfercenter.org/publication/keeping-kim-how-north-koreas-regime-stays-power. ● United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hitler-comes-to-power?series=21810.