Dictator Assignment

Dummies’ Guide to Dictators By Ashley P and Demi C

Stalin Fun Fact Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Stalin was a gambler and a good Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet player, and didn't like it when Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial someone would lose to him and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and 5-10 intentionally. He even had a million of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Stalin special tradition were those became the “father” figure of Russia by rewriting history books and removing anyone who opposed his ideas. In 1939 Stalin who'd lose had to climb under the joined Hitlers side in a non-aggression pact to give Russia time pool table to rebuild its army. Why He started the revolution? ● He wanted to industrialize Russia in 10 years ● First 5-year plan was about coal and steel production ● Second 5-year plan was about bettering the industry and military ● Wanted absolute power and control ● Russia needed oppression and fear instead of revolution and freedom

Rise to Power Methods used to maintain power ● The previous communist leader of Russia Lennon had died only after ● The creation of the Gulag were two years 20% of people dies every year due to working and sleeping outside ● Both Stalin and Trotsky thought they deserved to be of the communist in russian winters and only given party but Trotsky had the people approval scrapa as food ● Stalin put supporters of his ideas into the communist party to get ● Use of secret police more approval from the public ● Collectivization of all farms by ● Stalin and his supporters arranged Trotsky’s for removal from the force called the collective farming communist party. system ● A rapid, forced industrialization of ● Trotsky was exiled to Mexico where he was later executed by an Russia icepick by Stalin’s orders ● Had total control over the media was causing it to be banned Fun Fact ● Removed all religion in Russia He got the name Stalin ● Had show trials to prosecute his while he was a opposing forces or anyone seen revolutionary. It comes as a treat using false from the Russian word for information/witnesses \"steel\" combined with \"Lenin\"

Hitler The techniques that were commonly used for Hitler were things such as: ● Propaganda: He used this to make people have a better view on what he was doing because his posters created false interpretations on the genocide ● Police forces: He had hundred and hundreds of german boys training to be apart of the army by the time they were 10 to 18 then after they became apart of his military. ● Controlled Participation: Hilter made sure that everyone agreed and followed what he said. In order to do that he created fear. ● Scapegoating: He blamed Jewish people for the events that happened. Hitlers Rise to Power: Hitler first took up political work in 1919. As an army political agent, he had joined a small german worker party and took over the propaganda in 1920 and left the army to devote himself within the party. Which was renamed to Nazi. The group began to dislike the republican government in Berlin. This caused some of the people within the group to make a right wing government. After many joing the Nazi Party. At first they would protest party meetings, attack socialists and communists, and to exploit violence. In july 1921 Hitler became leader of the group with almost unlimited power. Hilter was sentenced to five years in prison for an incident that happened that involved 4 officers dead, he only served 9 months. That took place in 1923. Hitler then began to share his ideas of inequality among races, nations and individuals as apart of an unchangeable order to exhale the “ aryan race.” Hitlers greatest enemy was marxism but beyond it he believed it was the Jew, who for Hitler was the incarnation of evil.

One of the main things that Hitler used to make his crimes justifiable is that he kept things from the people. The only way to “cover the truth” during then was propaganda and they way he put himself. People would either truly agree with what he was putting out there with propaganda or they were deathly afraid of being killed for speaking out against him. People were so afraid of what the Nazis would do to them if they found out that people disagreed that most would just force themselves to agree. Hitler kept lots of things hidden for the public eye that everyone around the world and even in Germany didn't even know the full extent of what was going on. Fun Fact The Nazis were known for promoting health conscious policies. So in site of that Hitler was a teetotaler, nonsmoker, and vegetarian. Although in 1941 Hitlers physician began injecting him with different drugs such as morphe, meth, morphine, and cocaine. Apparently drugs were very prominited within the Nazis as they were reportedly given meth before battle.

Mao Zedong Fun Fact Mao Zedong was a Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and, from 1949 to 1959, the first He left his family’s farm at age 16 to pursue chairman of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was one of the most influential and his education, abandoning an arranged controversial political figures of the 20th century, in China and abroad. He participated in marriage. China’s first five-year plan (1953–57), Great Leap Forward (1958–60),Cultural Revolution (1966–76). Mao’s particular strand of revolutionary theory took from the Marxist, Leninist, and Stalinist traditions but was also culturally tailored for the Chinese people called Maoism. Maoism departed from other strands of Marxism in its understanding of peasantry: not as a class incapable of achieving political consciousness but as one with a dormant but tappable source of revolutionary energy. Maoism harbored other idiosyncrasies, including its conception of contradictions and of permanent revolution. Why He started the revolution? ● The stating goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society ● He wanted to help the peasants ● Mao Zedong was a famous leader of the peasant movement. He organized the association of Hunan in 1926, which nearly half the peasants in the province joined

Rise to Power Fun Fact ● Mao was first drawn to Marxism, after mixing with Chen Duxiu and other early in 1939, Mao divorced his second communists. wife He Zizhen and married the movie star Jiang Qing, who later ● In 1921, he attended the first CCP congress. Shortly after the congress, Mao wielded a sizable amount of power returned to Hunan, where he set about organising and strengthening the local during the Cultural Revolution. CCP branch. ● Mao began building support by writing, educating and networking. He published radical essays in Changsha newspapers promoting Marxist ideas. ● He became involved in organising Hunan’s miners, railway and textile workers, providing advice on disputes and encouraging organised strikes ● He started night schools where Hunan’s workers and peasants could learn Chinese and mathematics; these schools were not only very popular, they were also a conduit for promoting Marxist ideas and CCP membership. ● In the mid-1923, Mao was elected to the CCP’s executive committee and relocated to Shanghai. ● Mao later headed up a nationalist propaganda bureau and in January 1924 attended the Guomindang national congress in Guangzhou. Methods used to maintain power ● Mao increased authoritarian tactics to maintain principal control over the trajectory of his country. ● He made an effort to eliminate those in the leadership who, over the years, had dared to cross him. ● The victims were publicly humiliated and detained for varying periods, sometimes under very harsh conditions; many were beaten and tortured, and not a few were killed or driven to suicide. Among the casualties was Liu, who died because he was denied proper medical attention.

Pinochet Fun Fact Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that overthrew Chile’s government on The CIA concluded in a report issued September 11, 1973. He was appointed army commander in chief by in 2000 that: \"The CIA actively President Allende 18 days before the coup. He was named head of the military’s governing council and later assumed the title of president in supported the military junta after the 1974. He stepped down in 1990 after a presidential election was held. overthrow of Allende but did not Allende government socialist policies resulted in a lower rate of inflation assist Pinochet to assume the and an economic boom between 1976 and 1979. A modest political Presidency.\" liberalization began in 1978 after the regime announced that, in a plebiscite, 75 percent of the electorate had endorsed Pinochet’s rule. Why He started the revolution? ● To exterminate leftism in Chile and to reassert free-market policies in the country’s economy. ● Restructure Chilean society along socialist lines while retaining democratic government ● Wanted to respect civil liberties and the due process of law

Rise to Power Methods used to maintain power ● In his first three years the his ● He became a Marxist activist and worked as a doctor and in 1933 was a founding regime arrested approximately member of Chile’s Socialist Party. 130,000 people, many of whom were tortured ● in 1937 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies were he later served as minister of ● Pinochet persecuted leftists, health in the leftist government of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda. socialists, and political critics ● Executiedof from 1,200 to ● in 1945, he became a senator. 3,200 people ● He unsuccessfully ran for president several times in the 1950s and 1960s ● Internment of as many as ● in September 1970 he won a three-sided presidential race with 36.3 percent of the vote. 80,000 people Because he lacked a popular majority, his election had to be confirmed by the Chilean Congress. Fun Fact Following a back surgery in Britain, Pinochet was arrested in 1998. He stayed on house arrest in Britain for 17 months while his judges plead insanity on his behalf. He was then deported to Chile due to ill health.

Mussolini Rise to power: Wounded while serving with the Bersaglieri he returned home with a sense of destiny. He advocated emergence of a dictator “ a man who was ruthless and energetic enough to make a clean sweep.” During a report Mussolini hinted that he himself could prove to be that man. At rallies he was widely supported by people wearing black shirts. is physique was impressive, and his style of oratory, staccato and repetitive, was superb. His attitudes were highly theatrical, his opinions were contradictory, his facts were often wrong, and his attacks were frequently malicious and misdirected. Him and his groups began to attack people in order to gain power at a national level. Method to maintain power: Fun Fact He declared all political parties illegal except for his own Fascist Party. He outlawed labor unions and strikes. He also established a political police force, Mussolini was a socialist before the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Antifascism. A Fascist Grand becoming a facist. Council rubber-stamped Mussolini's decrees and made parliament irrelevant.

Why he did started the revolution: As the Fascist movement built a broad base of support around the powerful ideas of nationalism and anti-Bolshevism, Mussolini began planning to seize power at the national level. In the summer of 1922, Mussolini's opportunity presented itself. The remnants of the trade-union movement called a general strike. Fun Fact Mussolini was showing sign of aggression even at a young age as he was expelled from a religious boarding school for stabbing another student in the hand. Along with bullying and fighting.

Fidel Castro RIse to Power: Castro was educated in Santiago de Cuba and Havana and was a student he participated in revolutionary activities. He received his law degree at the University of Havana in the 1950s. After that he began a candidate for the Cuban people's party. Castro soon settled on an alternative means for challenging the dictatorship. In 1953 he led 160 men in a raid against the Santiago army it was unsuccessful. Castro was responsible for establishing the first communit state in the western hemisphere. A nearly 5 decade long reign as leader of Cuba. Fun Fact he has been known to give speeches lasting Although seven hours, Castro hasn't published much work during his long career.

Maintain Power: Fidel Castro used a lot of propaganda to maintain his power. When he first came into power he had two things that he needed to be done. one was to totally reform Cuba's corrupt and unequal social order, and the other was to gain independence from the United States. He made a lot of progress by kicking America out of the abolished capitalism in Cuba. “Whichever way we perceive of Cuba’s fallen leader Fun Fact Fidel Castro Ruz, no one can really deny the great Fidel Castro was born on his family's sugar limitations inherent in traditional, liberal forms of plantation near Biran, Cuba. His father was governance in bringing about a more meaningful life an immigrant laborer from the Galician for the overwhelming majority of the world’s people.” region in Spain but eventually became a prosperous landowner. In a 1992 interview, Castro said that \"it doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.\"