Thomas RECORDS - Dictators for Dummies Project Template

Dictators For Dummies By: Thomas Records

So You Want To Be A Dictator? Dictator - when people overuse their power/ take abuse of their power. Most of them trick the government even to be in power, or they wouldn’t be in power in the first place. Adolf Hitler, because during World War I, he enlisted to fight with the German Amy, and was wounded in battle. After the Germans surrendered, at the dismay and disgust of Hitler, Germany was held largely responsible for the war and had to pay reparations for the damage caused by the conflict. But also Kim Juan-un, because he was investigation by a UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea should shed light on these and other rights crimes when it presents its report to the UN Human Rights Council this coming March.

Tips And Tricks To Getting Your Power What does it mean to manipulate laws, the government, & political parties? A party that does not hold the majority in Congress often keeps the party in power from taking complete control. Virtually all candidates run for public office with party labels that define their behavior after they win. How does this help dictators rise to power? Because it seems like they have more power and was voted in. It also makes them look good Joseph Stalin is a example of this because, he agreed to help everything that happened and everything that needs fixed they will say there going to fix it but they won’t. Vladimir Putin is also a example of this because, Because he lied to the country and said a bunch of stuff will happen, and he would fix it. But he never will, like he would say he is going to fix the economy but he never did and he never will fix it.

Tips And Tricks To Getting Your 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 does propaganda help dictators rise to power? Because they use biased information to trick people and get into like being the dictator, They also look at it from a different point of view when some man says who doesn’t want to be in debt. Who wants food and water and money to pay for rent and anything else you need/want. Benito Mussolini is a good example of this because one of the reasons why Mussolini came to power was through propaganda, he convinced people’s mind and he even sometimes lied, to make him sound better. Bashar al-Assad is another good example because, he used propaganda because he lied to many people and acted like it was going to turn out better. He even kind of tricked people.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 1 What does it mean to censor information? Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or \"inconvenient\". How do dictators use this to keep their power? Because they don’t tell anyone what is really happening, like no one knows about facebook. Or that we have it good over here without a dictator like they and most other people do. Adolf Hitler is a good example of this because, The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media. Xi Jinping is also a good example because, He uses newspaper and online things to a limit,

How To Keep Your Power- Step 2 What methods do dictators use to brainwash their citizens? Because they say stuff over and over for them to forget about what really happened and cover whatever it is up so no one really knows. How do dictators use this brainwashing to keep their power? Because they don’t know everything bad about them, if they did other stuff, they forget or he kind of makes them forget it. Joseph Stalin is a good example of this because, he used Fear, The Secret Police - NKVD, Summary, Education King Salman, and his son, the Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman also used different things like a secret police force to take care of some people who know stuff.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 3 What does it mean to ‘repress opposition’? Repress somebody/something to use political and/or military force to control a group of people and restrict their freedom synonym put down, suppress The government was quick to repress any opposition. What methods do dictators use to do this? Propaganda How does this help dictators keep their power? Because they make the people believe that they really are good. Adolf Hitler used this because of Power by Dictators Dictators use the following four techniques to gain and maintain power: indoctrination force and terror use of scapegoats propaganda demonstrate... Dictators use the following four techniques to gain and maintain power: indoctrination. force and terror. Vladimir Putin also used this because he tricked them into believing that he was good and wanted to help them and the whole country through propaganda.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 4 How do dictators justify imprisoning & torturing enemies? What methods do they use? Violence, they use secret police forces and other things that some people don’t know about. How does this help dictators keep their power? So no one try and overthrow them or let it be a democracy. Joseph Stalin was a good example of this because, he used secret police forces. Kim Juan-un was also a good example because, he was keeping secrets from his own people and didn’t tell them anything about any other country, so they didn’t try anything.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 5 What were a dictator’s military and police used for? What were their responsibilities? To take/ kill all the people that talk bad about the dictator or tell people what is really going on. How does a military & police force help dictators keep their power? So people don’t try and overthrow the dictator and try and be the dictator. Benito Mussolini used this because he used secret police force to kill the people who were spreading things and who said stuff that actually is going on outside of his country. Bashar al-Assad used this because he has secret police forces in Syria doing anything he wants/ needs them too.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 6 How do dictators use propaganda to keep their power? Totalitarian, because they are completely in charge. Adolf Hitler used Propaganda because of the information that is intended to persuade an audience to accept a particular idea or cause, often by using biased material or by stirring up emotions—was one of the most powerful tools the Nazis used to consolidate their power and cultivate an “Aryan national community” in the mid-1930s Vladimir Putin also used propaganda because he said what’s more, his total control of the Russian media mobilized anti-Ukrainian hysteria among Russians in the decade leading up to the Kremlin’s 2014 aggression.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 7 What methods do dictators use to control the internet / social media? It’s a reasonable assumption — and there are indeed many ways in which these new technologies can help. Perhaps most obviously, social media can lower the costs of communicating the crucial “where, where, how, and why” of protests to large numbers of people. How does this help dictators keep their power? They make it seem like there far, and nice. Kim Jong-un is a example of this because his people know about how he lets some stuff slide and lets them have some social media.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 8 Nationalism- identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. Genocide- the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Ethnic Conflict- a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. While the source of the conflict may be political, social, economic or religious, the individuals in conflict must expressly fight for their ethnic group's position within society. These conceptions help the dictators keep their power because, it gives them ideas and stuff to do the give them more power. Adolf Hitler used this because, he used genocide because he killed a large number of people but it was a specific group. King Salman also used this because He used nationalism because he had interest in his nation and he was supporting the country’s interests.

How To Keep Your Power- Step 9 What methods do dictators use to manipulate laws & policies? Secret police forces, and they also use propaganda. How does this help dictators keep their power? Because there is not one trying to overthrow them. Joseph Stalin used this, because he used secret police forces a while ago. Xi Jinping because he used propaganda.

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