CONNOR OWEN - Dictators for Dummies Project Template

Dictators for Dummies By Connor Owen

So you wanna be a dictator? Dictator: a person who pretends to be good but actually wants to take over your country. Historic-Example:A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. Modern-Example:A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power.

Rise to power!!! ● What does it mean to manipulate laws, the government, & political parties? :It means to change the laws and change what people can do and can't do. ● How does this help dictators rise to power? :Because they have owned the media and they use fear and obedience.

Keeping Power ● What does it mean to censor information? :It means to own the media and prevent people from looking at newspapers or letting em critical think about the dictators ● How do dictators use this to keep their power? :They use obedience and police to keep power ● What methods do dictators use to brainwash their citizens? :They use fear to brainwash people. ● How do dictators use this brainwashing to keep their power.

Keeping power ● What does it mean to ‘repress opposition’?:Killing Opposites ● What methods do dictators use to do this? :To prevent them from losing power ● How does this help dictators keep their power?:By removing opposites that try to overthrow them.

Keeping Power ● How do dictators justify imprisoning & torturing enemies? What methods do they use?:They used a whip? And starvation ● How does this help dictators keep their power?:By keeping the people in control with fear

Keeping Power ● What were a dictator’s military and police used for? What were their responsibilities? :To hurt anyone who deny the rules that the dictator has ● How does a military & police force help dictators keep their power? :By force and obedience

Keeping power ● Define propaganda:information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. ● How do dictators use propaganda to keep their power? :By using lies and controlling the media

Keeping power ● What methods do dictators use to control the internet / social media? :Obedience and fear ● How does this help dictators keep their power? :It helps the dictator get power more easier if they use fear

Keeping power ● Define Nationalism:identification with one's own nation and supp interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests nations. ● Define Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, those of a particular ethnic group or nation. ● Define Ethnic conflict :a form of conflict in which the object least one party are defined in ethnic terms, and the confl antecedents, and possible solutions are perceived along lines. The conflict is usually not about ethnic differences themselves but over political, economic, social, cultural, o

Keeping Power ● What methods do dictators use to manipulate laws & policies?:Fear and being Bias ● How does this help dictators keep their power? :It helps them because they force the people to

Sources www.britannica.com/topic/ethnic-conflict