Laurel SCHIFFMEYER - Dictators for Dummies Project Template

Dictators For Dummies Laurel Schiffmeyer

So You Wanna Be a Dictator? A dictator is a ruler with total control over a country. They usually obtain their control by force. Adolf Hitler was dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945. Kim Jong Un became dictator of North Korea in 2011 and still rules today.

Tips & Tricks to Manipulating laws, government, or political parties means to promise to fix things but don’t Getting Your Power follow through. You can eliminate other political parties by giving no freedom. You can also cheat on elections or even eliminate them. This helps dictators rise to power because they can control every aspect of people's’ lives. If you eliminate all other political parties, there won’t be anyone else to vote for in the elections. Mussolini never intended to share power Lawmakers in Russia adopt a law with the liberals who were in the that would allow the president to government. He introduced a Fascist Grand Council which would decide policy serve three terms in a row. The for Italy without consulting the constitution currently bars non-fascists in the government first. He was able to decide policies without anyone from serving more than consulting everyone in the government. two consecutive terms. Putin is trying to manipulate the government so he can rule longer.

Information that is designed to encourage people to Tips & Tricks to Getting believe or act a certain way. With propaganda that is Your Power biased towards your views, people will agree with you. The poster says, “long live You can make this about many things in people’s life so Germany” and it shows Hitler as they will agree with you on every topic. They will want to their leader. People will want follow you since they agree with so many things. to follow Hitler since it shows The picture shows a North Korean that Hitler will propaganda book. Titled The US lead Germany to be its best. Imperialists Started the Korean War, the book is an accusation of American aggression, arguing that the US provoked the Korean War in the 1950s as part of a much broader strategy of post-WWII global domination. They are using propaganda to make people believe that they should hate the US - one of North Korea’s enemies.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 1 To censor information means to control what the people are hearing and even change it. You can change what the people hear so people think you are better than you might be. You can make them believe that you are the right ruler very easily. Netflix has recently blocked an episode of its show “Patriot Act” from streaming in Saudi Arabia after the Saudi Hitler burns books so government complained that the episode — which is critical that people can only of the crown prince, — violated its cybercrime laws. Article 6 learn about what the of the Saudi anti-cyber crime law, which was cited by the government wants Saudi commission in its request to Netflix, prohibits the them to know. “production, preparation, transmission or storage of material affecting on public order, religious values, public morals and privacy” on the internet. However, journalism advocates call it a powerful and covering instrument for the Saudi government to censor virtually any speech online.

How to Keep In North Korea, kids are taught from a Your Power - young age to believe what this Step 2 dictators do. This picture shows kids being taught to fight or be against the USA, one of North Korea’s enemies. Dictators can use posters or lessons in school to brainwash young children. These children will grow up believing their dictator and won’t doubt them. Dictators brainwash people into thinking their ways are the best for them. Even from a young age, dictators can press their ideas on children. By 1936, Germany banned all youth groups—including the Boy Scouts—and forced members to become part of the Hitler Youth instead. Jewish children were banned from participation.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 3 To repress opposition The Chinese Communist Party in China is means to get rid or limit determined to shut down any civil society that they see to be a threat. An example of freedoms of anyone who this is the Beijing Zhongze Women’s Legal Counseling and Service Center when it was goes against you. shut down in February 2016 even with DIctators can kill, punish, more than two decades advocating for or shut down anti-domestic violence litigation and the protection of land rights for rural women. anyone/anything that The Great Purge, was a political goes against them. It campaign led by Stalin to helps dictators keep their eliminate members of the power because there is Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. no one to go against Most experts believe at least them. 750,000 people were executed.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 4 Dictators can justify imprisoning and torturing enemies by saying they are going against them. By imprisoning enemies, dictators will be able to get rid of almost all opposition. This can help them keep their power because no one will be able to or even want to go against them. During the While anti-aircraft guns were designed to take down enemy Holocaust, Hitler fighter jets, they have become a method of execution for Kim Jong Un. In 2015, reports surfaced from South Korean justified intelligence that the dictator’s Defense Minister Hyon Yong Chol imprisoning and was pulverized to death by an anti-aircraft gun after the young torturing the Jews despot ordered his execution for falling asleep during an event and not carrying out instructions. by saying that they were the reason for all of Germany’s problems.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 5 Military and police are used to keep everyone under control and make sure they aren’t doing anything that goes against the dictator. The military and police use fear to keep the people under control. From the beginning of their In Syria there is a state regime, the Bolsheviks relied intelligence service or secret on a strong and secret police police called ‘mukhabarat’. The order that you too must fight force to support their rule. for your country could only be Under party leader Joseph approved by the president. The men who safeguard the regime Stalin, the secret police have been sent to the front. acquired vast punitive powers Soon the force became a direct instrument of Stalin for use against the party and the country during the Great Terror of the 1930s.

How to Keep Propaganda is information that is designed to Your Power - encourage people to believe or act a certain way. Step 6 Dictators can use propaganda to make people believe that they are doing great things that appeals to everyone. This poster shows people that This is propaganda that can their dictator is good and be found in school in North trustworthy, you can even let Korea. From a young age, your kids around them. dictators are pressing their ideas onto the kids.

Dictators can control the media by using different How to Keep sources for people to see things and even changing Your Power - what they see. Dictators can use this to keep power people because they can control/monitor everything Step 7 the people see and think about. Many social media platforms, which people in the West use every day, are banned in China. Instead they're replaced by other ones which the government can monitor.

How to Keep Your Dictators can use other groups as a scapegoat Power - Step 8 for their problems. Every year, North Korea Nationalism: Extreme pride for one’s host a “party” celebrating anti-United country. States. This strengthens nationalism and they Genocide: The killing of a large group of even created these special stamps to people, especially those of a particular support the party. ethnic group or nation. Hitler blamed the Jews for almost everything that was Ethnic conflict: A conflict between two or wrong with more ethnic groups. While the source of the Germany and punished them for conflict may be political, social, economic or it. It gave Germany religious, the people must fight for their and the people a reason for group's position. everything the happened.

How to Keep Your Power - Step 9 Dictators can manipulate Germany's parliament laws by changing them so passed the \"Enabling Act\" that people have to follow them and may even take and from that point on, away their freedoms. When Hitler could enact laws dictators manipulate laws and policies, they can make without the need of the people do whatever they parliamentary approval. want. The people will not be able to speak out and will In North Korea it is a have to follow the new laws. criminal offence for citizens to leave the country without government permission. This shows that the government is changing laws and taking away citizens freedom.

Works Cited ● https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un#Leader_of_North_Korea ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_conflict ● https://www.history.com/news/how-the-hitler-youth-turned-a-generation-of-kids-into-nazis ● https://www.history.com/topics/russia/great-purge ● http://time.com/4519160/china-xi-jinping-cecc-human-rights-rule-of-law/ ● https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/business/media/netflix-hasan-minhaj-saudi-arabia.html ● https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/05/north-koreas-long-history- of-attacking-america-with-anti-u-s-stamps/?utm_term=.7cd9012c713e ● https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/9/16773364/trump-kim-summit-sign-agreement-denuclear ization-propaganda ● http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41398423/social-media-and-censorship-in-china-how-is -it-different-to-the-west ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-putin/kremlin-says-changing-law-to-allow-pu tin-another-term-in-office-not-on-agenda-idUSKBN1IC15U